On 10/23/06, Allan Rosen-Ducat <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If you want a rock solid speedster then you should pick up a Mac notebook. You just cannot kill them. I have the different Mac laptops.
Watching my Mac friends, 3 out of the 4 who I know use Mac laptops regularly have had extensive problems and shop-time with them. This is *far* worse than the the (much larger number of) non-Apple laptops I've seen. Most problems have involved multiple trips to the shop before they got fixed right, too. I'm glad yours have been good for you!
They network almost seamlessly into any network or wireless environment. Most Mac laptops are configured with a wireless card and can be purchased with bluetooth also.
A housemate regulaly has trouble getting hers to integrate with our network. Windows and Linux boxes drop right in. At my previous job we had a mixed network, and about 2/3 of the network troubles were from the smaller number of Macs in the network; and they were also unaccountably slow in network and browser functions.
If you can afford it buy, Applecare for the Laptop, this way you have full support and your covered for the term of the applecare if you have an out of warranty issue.
Applecare seems to be a very good program. You can also do an amazing amount yourself, or coerce friends into helping :-). I've replaced power supplies in an SE, and the DC board in a laptop (which in that model was pretty much the deepest buried thing in the whole laptop, sigh), as well as simple processor and memory upgrades, for Mac-owning friends who didn't feel comfortable cracking the case themselves. -- David Dyer-Bennet, <mailto:dd-b@xxxxxxxx>, <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/> RKBA: <http://www.dd-b.net/carry/> Pics: <http://www.dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/> Dragaera/Steven Brust: <http://dragaera.info/>
