i currently have a dell latitude i1545 laptop that has 3gb of memory 250gb hard drive.. it is a little over a year old, runs great... i dont play games on it or anything. just do my website work.. what is better... a dell with vista or a mac??
For security purposes MAC is better. But Dell can be used to do almost everything including installation of all softwares.
If all you're doing is web coding, basic graphics, email and instant messaging... keep your Dell, and have a look at either Ubuntu or Linux Mint, or even one of the Linux netbook distros. It will cost you nothing, except some time to read the docs, make some mistakes, and then do it right the second or third time http://www.ubuntu.com/ http://www.linuxmint.com/ I'm booting into Linux more and more every day. The only time I really have to use Windows is when I use Photoshop/InDesign, which is unfortunately more often than not. I'm running EasyPeasy on my old netbook, and it's a total joy.
Mac is always the best they FAST they never slow down like PCs and impossible to get viruses on them coz they dont have .dll files
I think Mac looks totally awesome, and even though I like it a lot, I think it is simply too expensive (and sometimes not as program compatible). If the prices of Macs become cheaper, then I'll definitely be the first one to buy them in PACKS!
Mac have a different operating system as compare to Dell.No doubts mac looks awesome but its price and application is less as compare to dell.
Mac is for now better, but we will see in coming years how mac will handle with security issues...More users will have more "junk" will coming to mac