Hi everyone . . .
I'm going to college this fall and, being a journalism and photography major, need to purchase a Mac. I'm trying to decide whether to get an iMac or laptop, and which to buy. Any suggestions?
Thanks!!!
Just get a macbook, and with the money you save, get a nice 24" monitor for working at home. That's what I did.![]()
Photoshop and Lightroom are available for Windows too. If you don't have any specialised Mac software to buy, do you really need to spend the extra on a more expensive machine?
The latest Microsoft advert shows a girl paying $972 for a Dell machine which is equal in performance to a model Apple sells for $1774.
Anyway, if you HAVE to buy a Mac go for the 2.0GHz MacBook (plastic or aluminium) or the 2.4GHz MacBook Pro (if you really need the extra screen space). Every single one of Apple's other notebooks is decidedly worse value for money.
It depends on what you're gonna do. You'll probably save some hundreds of $ if you get an iMac, with better specs.
He wants a Mac. Not a PC. Stop trying to ruin other people's experiences. Not everyone wants to waste time with Windows. Get over it.
It depends on what you're gonna do. You'll probably save some hundreds of $ if you get an iMac, with better specs.
He wants a Mac. Not a PC. Stop trying to ruin other people's experiences. Not everyone wants to waste time with Windows. Get over it.
I understand your previous post as it relates to saving money... it's just interesting considering your signature.If you want to continue thinking that Apple's machines are the ultimate and cannot be surpassed, then I can't stop you from doing that. But if you're going to give advice to people, make sure you're properly informed first.
If people come here looking for advice, we can do our best to give the best advice that we can. As a student, I'm sure that they would appreciate advice which helps them to save money for other things.
If you want to continue thinking that Apple's machines are the ultimate and cannot be surpassed, then I can't stop you from doing that. But if you're going to give advice to people, make sure you're properly informed first.
Blanket and unfounded statements like "waste time with Windows" help no one.
I understand your previous post as it relates to saving money... it's just interesting considering your signature.![]()
Best advice? Can you call recommending Windows an advice? It's obviously good to save money, but it's always good to enjoy using your computer, and avoiding the many problems which can be avoided by using a Mac. If you want to get the cheapest thing you can buy, fine, but no money will be enough to make you feel better when you'll encounter those problems.
I am properly informed. After using Windows since I was kid, I realized it was indeed a waste of time. You don't have to be a genius to realize that.
This is what I mean - people here dismiss Windows because of prior bad experiences and refuse to accept the possibility that it has improved. Hell, I too might have said the same as you until a year or two ago when I started using Windows more regularly again.
I 'switched' in 2005 and at that time Windows was terrible. There were so many viruses and issues and the OS was not stable at all. But since then they have made massive improvements to security and reliability. I've been using both Windows Vista SP2 and Windows 7 and they are now much more optimised. I've not had a single program crash whatsoever on 7, something which Leopard cannot claim.
I think with 7 Microsoft is definitely ahead again and the current release of Vista is only marginally behind Leopard. If you could directly compare two machines running the different OSs where price was also equal then I'd definitely be recommending the MacBook, primarily because the build quality is so good. But as it stands right now Apple are selling laptops which are massively overpriced, underfeatured (where's my eSATA, FireWire or Blu Ray?) and outdated. People should not be paying $1300 for a machine with a 2GHz Core 2 Duo and integrated graphics, especially when the screen and battery are so poor.