on 31 March 2003 : 14:09, Don Wrege sez:
"Maybe I would get a Macintosh laptop some time down the road. But between wanting to fire up legacy Windoze hard drives and wanting to play games, I can't go Macintosh now."
The new Macs deal with Windows quite effectively.
Mac OS X is essentially NextStep (based on Unix).
Geeks I know who used to laugh at Macs are now buying the sweet 17" laptop with OS X and running emulated Windoze environment (via Virtual PC) with no problems whatsoever. Two systems in one enclosed in a slim and sleek fetish object.
http://www.apple.com/powerbook/index17.html
Don W.
Boulder, CO
on 31 March 2003 : 14:28, Keith sez:
I have a Hewlett Packard that I bought about 3 years ago and love it. 650 mhz, 640 meg of ram. (odd config. Mismatched sticks, but still works) 40 gig hard drive nvidia g3 I believe and a sony trinitron monitor. I just bought my dad a Dell. 1.8 mhz, 256 meg of ram, g4 card and 30 gig hard drive and love that too. Both systems have all the usual goodies you get with high end systems. For my next computer. I will be getting a dell. Good luck with yours.
on 31 March 2003 : 16:30, joey sez:
I guess you already bought your computer, but have you thought about getting a Shuttle XPC? They are insanely easy to assemble, powerful, and cute too! I put mine (2.2 Ghz Celeron, 512 DDR, 120 GB) together in about 20 minutes.
on 1 April 2003 : 17:31, d1e sez:
DUDE YOUR GETTIN' A DELL!
I myself just ordered a T40p (New Thinkpad). Spent a lot extra for the notebook so I'm not tethered to a desk.
I work in multimedia, so needed something that could take handle quite a bit of workstation class software. Apparently this thing does in stride... When it finally ships, time will tell.
Good luck with your new computer!
on 1 April 2003 : 17:31, d1e sez:
DUDE YOUR GETTIN' A DELL!
I myself just ordered a T40p (New Thinkpad). Spent a lot extra for the notebook so I'm not tethered to a desk.
I work in multimedia, so needed something that could take handle quite a bit of workstation class software. Apparently this thing does in stride... When it finally ships, time will tell.
Good luck with your new computer!
on 1 April 2003 : 17:58, T33Po sez:
I have a thinkpad t20 also. It really rocks. I hope to buy the newer model (I think the t23) that built in wireless antenna behind the lcd screen.
As far as desktops go, I would go with anything that has a good graphics card and uses standard components. I back up all my stuff about every month, and actually enjoy starting fresh from time to time.
I am currently using a Compaq Deskpro p4 1.4 that I got from work, it does the trick. I bought a better graphics card, and can play games on it too.
on 1 April 2003 : 18:46, ben sez:
I've been contemplating the mini-itx form factor. I do a lot of avi-to-mpeg work and I'd like a very portable system that could play AVIs native (it has a TV out and 6.1 built on). They are cheap and cute. Sort of like Reese Whitherspoon.
on 1 April 2003 : 23:27, Paul Hughes sez:
Justin - check out http://mypcparts.com/ I've been getting my machines there for years, and they run flawlessly. Since they are basically wholesalers, they are cheap, fast and amd still in your control (no propietary DELL BS). Conact me if you have any questions. As for the Hard drive I recommend the 120GB Winchester Special edition with the 8MB cache. As for RAM, get 512MB - it's too cheap right now to pass up, and it will bring noticeble performance enhancement.
on 2 April 2003 : 00:33, Erika sez:
It is hard finding a good laptop that won't cost me an arm and a leg. Settling on a dell, 256 megs,CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive, radion 9000,2 ghz, 40 gig hd, SUXJA screen...so it will be fine for school but it has to be good for sims and dod.
The nice thing about desktops is that you can build them yourself, customize here and there whereas while buying a lap top, especially if you are a poor student milking loans here and there, one wishes to be able to build from scratch a laptop...Damn laptops! They need to standardize like regular desktops!
on 2 April 2003 : 09:35, Liza sez:
Justin, build your own and go with 512 of ram. Its much cheaper to built your own. I just built my first. 2400 ghz cpu. 1 gigabytes of ram (belive me I need it, I am a graphic designer), 160 gigabytes of hard drive space. Runs win2k but I might have it run instead win98SE.
For a video card get one for the amount of what your willing to spend I got a Geforce 4 Ti 2400 w/ 128 megabytes of DDR ram. Cost me $200.00 US
Whole machine cost around $1500.00 US. I splurged on the case, bought an alumiun Lian Li full tower for around $229.00 if I remeber correctly.
Couldnt be happier. This is after using a 1998 Gateway laptop till this January. Win98, 300 mhz cpu, 96 megs of ram, 6 gigs of hard drive space. Thing would get hot running a simple flash movie.
If you know how to build a computer or know someone who can, BUILD YOUR OWN. Smartest thing a person could ever do. Thats how Dell got started. Mike Dell would build them at his home and sell them.