are you saying that any Dell laptop is better than a Mac? cmon! even the cheap iBook will beat any same price-range pc.
I was looking for a laptop a while back and eventually went for a maxed-out 17" 1920x1200 2gb ram Dell Inspiron for remote design & dev and it behaved well until I spilled tea on the touch pad What clinched it for me was the Dell discount vouchers they published over at notebookreview. You can get one cheaper in the US too
I'll vouch for that... I NEVER want to see that stupid red cross in the top right of a window ever again. (Top left is fine )
I'm a Linux guy, but I write this post on my iBook which runs OS X. The iBook has great battery life and wasn't too expensive (£699). I've been unimpressed with all the Dell laptops I've seen, even more so with Acer and the other cheap brands. Sony laptops seem pretty good, but you're looking at £1000+ for a decent one. Which leaves the iBook as the clear winner. And of course OS X is superb, even for a non Mac guy like me.
Nope just saying they arent crap. Mine does the job I need it to Macs are really nice but I would rather get a dell than one of those and save some money.
I can vouch for iBooks as well. My work iBook has lasted three years and is still as wonderful as day one.
Thanks for all your suggestions, guys. I am totally overwelmed with all the different sorts. But I'll definately check out your suggestions. I probably won't get an ibook though coz I love windows, and hate Macs.
iBook's are nice (and pretty), but if you're used to a Windows OS, a Mac will take a lot of getting used to. I recently used my mom's iBook while I was visiting her for a week. A lot of it is just counterintuitive to me. I know that it's just because I'm used to PCs, but I've been using them too long to switch to Macs. Plus, Macs are more expensive. And I've heard they're much harder to mod (the desktops, anyways).
I honestly can't remember the last time I had a blue screen, I think it was back in college about 4.5 years ago I really don't understand why they happen to people so often. (Or why they happened to Bill Gates on stage at a conference a few years ago, that must have been quite embarassing ) I run tons of high end applications simultaneously on my "frankenstein" hand built AMD PC and on my Gateway laptop, no problems ever. My laptop is a Gateway AMD 3200xp 64 bit processor, 160gb HD, with an ATI radeon 9600 video card. Gateway has really stepped up their quality recently. This laptop can run tons of programs simultaneously, plus I can play high end video games (dark age of camelot, battlefield 2, etc). It does weigh a lot, but I use it 99% of the time on my couch, so I don't have to lug it anywhere. I have a lapdesk I made out of cardboard, duct tape, and tinfoil (to protect the family jewels). It's flexible, so the laptop stays pretty cool as the entire bottom is open to air.
The blue screen of death was almost a daily problem I saw back on win98, but hardly any problems with xp as long as Norton checks the registry to keep it clean.
For me, I like to do work on a machine, not spend my days house cleaning. Opened 2 powerbooks today and clicked Iphoto, imported 2000 of my photos from 1 to the other straight over the airwaves. No probs, no hassles. Just worked, Strange that.
good-morning MELLA, well i have a brand new Toshiba Satellite (M45-S269)... not really using it at this time, but thats another story... it everything u want when it comes to a laptop... ( 15.4 widescreen and the list goes on... ) do feel free to vist Notebookforums.com http://www.notebookforums.com/ they helped me out when it came to choosing a laptop... have a nice day... sincerely, c.t.adams-///