I just went through the same thing. I narrowed my choices down to a Dell, Lenovo, or Macbook. I had a PC laptop for the past 3 years that was a pain from the moment I opened the box. My computer before that was lovely and I was upset when it fried itself.
The student discount and rebate on the Macs won me over and after my Dad switched to Mac and started raving about it I decided to take the plunge. I'm really glad I did. If you need Windows stuff you can always use bootcamp or parallels. I'm using Office for Mac and really like it, I think it's about $79 installed for a student price. Right now the things I notice the most are it's quiet, it's fast, it doesn't heat up like my other computers did (the one computer I had literally cooked itself), no annoying cd drive that pops open all the time, it's easy to understand what's going on and where everything is, and this totally sounds like an ad but I'll be darned if it really does "just work."
Good luck with finding the right one for you! It's kinda fun getting a new computer and kind of a pain in the bum, too.
Edit: But I also think it's good to keep up with PCs and their technology updates, I'm sure I'll be using a PC once I get a job. It is kind of a Campy/Shimano debate. Is SRAM like Linux then?
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08-29-2008, 07:17 PM #1
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08-29-2008, 08:10 PM #2
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We have Dell lap tops. heavier than a brick and hard on shoulder.
Like the airbook. MIS guy at my office has one and its really light and he likes it a lot. plugs in a full size monitor, keyboard and wireless mouse and he's a one happy camper.
I just bought ASUS Eee900 book. it weighs in around 2pounds. Fits in my purse its about 9" by about 6" comes with solid state disk powers up really fast. and it has built in WiFI, ethernet, USB ports, SD memory ard reader, web cam. Screen is wide enough so I can pop open a regular document at full size and have to only scroll down to read the whole page.
And its only $530.00. getting a $100 rebate cause I bought it before Aug. 31. try newegg and read other feedback.
Oh you can get it either Linux or XP operating system. I went with Linux. since its faster boot and I get open office, which can read and write microsoft douments, drawings, spread sheets.
so my vote is for mac airbook and asus Eee900 book. Asus also have 2G and 4G model. the screen is slightly smaller but its only $300 to $400.00
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