Has anyone seen my shoe? Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 Hey guys, I know theres been hundred of threads about this but im lazy.I've been looking a laptops but I dont really know too much to be honest.Id quite like to get a macbook pro but its alot of money. I've also looked at Dell Inspirons (the higher models) and like the look of them.Any recommendations would be good, money wise I can go up to the price of a Macbook Pro at most. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Papasnap Maher Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 Ive got one of these..http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/category.aspx/vostro_nb?c=uk&cs=ukbsdt1&l=en&s=bsdthe 1400, but i specced it how i wanted..came to like £644. And ive been nothing but impressed with it.I put it through its paces at work, and its really , really good.Last time i checked the papers though, the were selling th xps dirtt cheap....http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products...;l=en&s=bsd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Has anyone seen my shoe? Posted January 7, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 XPS's seem a bit of a pointless stretch when I can get an inspiron and customise Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Rainbird Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 (edited) Currently on a £400 model of the Vostro 1000, and very impressed for the money (AMD Athlon 64 X2 1.8Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 120Gb HDD, widescreen job etc)With a little more cash to customise, you'd be laughing (perhaps)Currently looking for something around £500-550 myself, if anyone has any suggestions while you're here! Edited January 7, 2008 by Monkey Boy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomturd Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 Posted a few hours ago on HDUKhttp://www.hotukdeals.com/item/131769/dell.../all/deals/hot/Seems to be good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendrix Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 A standard mac book is very very good. Think it's about £799 ? Or, buy a second hand Mac Book Pro for about £900. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pashley26 Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 Get a Mac...There amazing, do everything, look good, are well spec'd and hold there value very well. Anybody who tells you other wise is a Nerd and uses Linux, Or has never had a Mac. (note HAD, not Used) They are Very Easy To Live With....Jarrod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomturd Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 Don't get a mac you'll turn into one of those people who bang on about macs at every opportunity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendrix Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 Don't get a mac you'll turn into one of those people who bang on about macs at every opportunity Pish Posh! Macs only have two known viruses, and they're almost impossible to get Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pashley26 Posted January 7, 2008 Report Share Posted January 7, 2008 Haha, one of them is a Flat battery, and the others spilt a glass of water !!!! XDJarrod Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopipe Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 Pish Posh! Macs only have two known viruses, and they're almost impossible to get ....which is nearly double the number of available applications to run on it. Still, if you insist on paying out vast sums of money for a substandard PC running a crippled version of freeBSD with a shite GUI that's your business.back to the original point...laptops are generally a bit gay if you want to do any serious work, if you want it for web browsing, looking at pictures, writing documents etc. just invest in a decent screen and a massive hard drive above all other features, anything Vista capable will handle your day to day music/photo/porn needs very comfortably. Don't buy one for playing games - you're better off getting a 350 quid laptop for porn and putting the rest of the money into a desktop for the games - at least you can upgrade the bugger later on.Don't buy one for video editing - the disks are too slowDon't buy one for serious photoshoppery - the disks are too slow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Has anyone seen my shoe? Posted January 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 See all I need mine for is word processing the rest of the time I just want music, videos and a bit of photoshopping ability.I dont have the money right now Tom but that deal in the link is awesome, i'll keep an eye out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 Don't get a mac you'll turn into one of those people who bang on about macs at every opportunity Like me? I set my Powerbook the task of encoding a DVD to h264 last night. Handbrake (the software) suggests that it should be able to do it in real-time on a computer with my spec. The video is 1hr20 long. So far it's been encoding for... 11 hours. WTF I think people who trash macs for no real reason are just as annoying as the people who harp on about how great they are. Although it's probably a response to how annoying the Apple fanboys can be. Anyway, I like mine, and I've never needed any software that isn't available for it. So shutyomouth, mmmkay?Pish Posh! Macs only have two known viruses, and they're almost impossible to get That was either the dumbest response to what Tom said or the greatest possible. I can't quite work it out Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 ....which is nearly double the number of available applications to run on it. Still, if you insist on paying out vast sums of money for a substandard PC running a crippled version of freeBSD with a shite GUI that's your business."Displaying 1–75 of 1064"So that's the amount of apps on MacUpdate, which is only one download site. I'm sure there are thousands more apps. The look of the GUI is an opinion, I personally think it looks good, and obviously so do Microsoft as they feel the need to steal parts of it. Infact my friend was using Vista the other day and when he was scrolling through his open windows he looked at me and said "That's so stolen from Apple". Also I don't think people can criticise the way OS X looks when they choose to use Windows XP.To me that just screams childish, the big blue start bar, and the simplified control panel because the majority of PC users are so ignorant and stupid that they end up f**king around with stuff that they don't know what it does. Whenever I have had to use XP in the past for more than about 2 minutes the first thing I have done is changed the theme back to classic look, so I'm actually looking at a computer designed for adults.This is quite an amusing discovery too,Senior analyst Toni Sacconaghi expresses surprise at the numbers in the report, which observes that the typical Apple retail location sells about 21.4 Macs every day versus "less than 2" for many less specialized electronics shops. This amounts to about 8,000 Macs per store per year and played a crucial role in expanding the Mac's appeal: about two-thirds of store revenues came from the computers and likely earned Apple the lion's share of its converts.It's ignorant people like you that make Mac users like myself have to stand their ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 Urgh yeah, Vista looks terrible. The Aero glass is just Mac OS X ripped off but looks shite whilst not being as useful. Exposé rocks my world - it's pretty and I use it all the time for switching apps. It makes me smile at how cool it is every time I use it - which is impressive since I've used it constantly for the last 18 months. Whereas that Aero 3D window flip thing just does the same thing Alt-tab but in a slower, more annoying way.Reason #463 why my mac Pwnzorz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Has anyone seen my shoe? Posted January 8, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 I do like the macs but my god are they expensive!. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*PHIL* Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 money wise I can go up to the price of a Macbook Pro at most.eh? have you not just answered your own question? Macbook Pro!!personally i would go for the black mac book, buy a big 24' ish screen for use at home and get a good mouse to use with it... might cost about 1000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 Apple are about to revamp the Cinema Display line, and drop the prices. Plus they've just revamped the Mac Pro line with better specs, ahead of Mac World next week, so I'd wait at least a week if I were you, because there are rumours of a new MacBook Nano and a MacNano too, replacing the Mac Mini. Can all be found on MacRumors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopipe Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 It's ignorant people like you that make Mac users like myself frantically scrabble around trying to justify the extra thousand quid they spent on out of date hardware and what amounts to a commercial version of X windowsanyway, here's a few PC based machinesmac price - note it has 2 graphics cards, 2 hard drives and a 20" screenexpensivemiddle of the roadnice n cheap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 mac price - note it has 2 graphics cards, 2 hard drives and a 20" screenEr... yeah. If you think a computer like that is good, then it's no wonder you don't like Macs. Besides, that's nearly twice the price of the most expensive mac laptop anyway. I'd have a Macbook Pro every time over that monstrosity. Bleurgh. Do you really think that all people that buy Macs are idiots who buy out of date hardware and like using rubbish operating systems? Can't believe I'm bothering to argue to be honest. Need the 'special olympics' picture right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JonMack Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 Well you've just gone on 4 sites to get that information on PCs, I went on MacUpdate, AppleInsider and did one Google search... so it's hardly scrabbling around the internet, especially as the AppleInsider article was in my inbox as i subscribe to their RSS feed.Maybe my hardware is out of date, but I've had this laptop 18 months and the spec is still good, 2.16Ghz core duo, 2MB L2 Cache, 667Mhz Bus, ATI Radeon x1600, 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD, hardly a shitty computer, well, it runs everything I need it to (AfterEffects, Illust, InDesign, Photoshop, Aperture, etc.) .Er... yeah. If you think a computer like that is good, then it's no wonder you don't like Macs. Besides, that's nearly twice the price of the most expensive mac laptop anyway. I'd have a Macbook Pro every time over that monstrosity. Bleurgh. Do you really think that all people that buy Macs are idiots who buy out of date hardware and like using rubbish operating systems?Here's the base Macbook Pro 17"2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo2GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM - 2x1GB160GB Serial ATA drive (5400rpm)MacBook Pro 17-inch Widescreen DisplaySuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)Backlit Keyboard (English) & Mac OS (English)Bluetooth 2.0Apple RemotePower AdapterBattery£1,799.00Or you could upgrade it with a faster processor, faster, bigger hard drive, over priced Apple RAM, and a 1920x1200 display:2.6GHz Intel Core 2 Duo4GB 667 DDR2 SDRAM - 2x2GB200GB Serial ATA drive (7200rpm)MacBook Pro 17-inch Hi-Resolution Widescreen DisplaySuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)Backlit Keyboard (English) & Mac OS (English)Bluetooth 2.0Apple RemotePower AdapterBattery£2,598.99and they're still portable, 17" and 3kg. Wouldnt really fancy lugging a 20" laptop around with me all day to be honest, especially as it weighs 7kg. I'll stick to my 2.5kg MBP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomm Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 2.2 kg Powerbook *** Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poopipe Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 christ, the fat laptop was intended as a joke but if you look at the cost of the big macbook pro it seems it wasnt that much of a joke at all. I wouldn't buy one like that personally - That sort of money gets you a proper computer with an 8 core Xeon, 16GB o Ram , SAS hard drives (look it up) and a quadroFX5600 with 1.5GB o memory on itmac users are fun - I'll stop now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
*PHIL* Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 (edited) i agree that macs are overpriced and understand that you can get an extremely powerful pc for he same price as a mac.but, i think the biggest reason to go for the mac is the operating system. thats the reason i switched, xp is getting a bit old and crappy and vista is just unbelievably bad.when i first thought about switching i was worried that there would be loads of things i could no longer do on the mac but it just isnt true, its probs the opposite.True story:::one of my friends bought a laptop for uni last year around august and it was fine, asus widescreen 1.8ghz, decent spec. came with vista installed, he hated it, went back to xp, remembered that that was pretty bad too. so he tried using linux os's like xubuntu, and he liked them(he formatted almost daily till he was happy with a version of ubuntu) for a while, it ran quick and supported all the hardware fine. but there was the problem that nothing ran on it, if you wanted a program or to use a file type it always felt like a compromise. so the other day he just decided to give up, sell his laptop for half the price he paid for it a few months ago and blow his loan on a macbook.so yeah... you can spend the same amount of cash on a high spec pc, but you're still stuck with windows or something like ubuntu Edited January 8, 2008 by himynameisphil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
br3n Posted January 8, 2008 Report Share Posted January 8, 2008 anyway, here's a few PC based machinesmac price - note it has 2 graphics cards, 2 hard drives and a 20" screenexpensivemiddle of the roadnice n cheapGood selections, I have "middle of the range" and must admit its great, little bit heavy (but thats why its not £1000) but must admit, Dont buy a laptop to actually use for things, they can cope with most things but not much more than that, buyn a proper pc/mac/desktop Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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