The battery life alone is worth it, I consistently get 3.5 - 5 hours of work out of one battery on my 1Ghz TiBook. People with comparable pc laptops get 2 - 2.5 hours.
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Guys I Need Help PB or 8500?
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Re: Guys I Need Help PB or 8500?
Check the website every day and I promise a great deal will come along on the 8500 every week or two.
Hey, by all means, don't pay that much for the Dell. If you watch the deal websites you will see that deals come around quite frequently, as a matter of fact the Inspiron 8500 was featured just last week with an almost identical configuration for about $1100. I highly recommend this website: Got Apex.
Check the website every day and I promise a great deal will come along on the 8500 every week or two.
There is an old aphorism:
"A bird in hand is worth more than two in the bush." Waiting since February, you've lost 5 months of potentially productive working time on your machine. Why waste more? It isn't worth the wait.
As much as the rumor mongers on this board want you to believe another machine is just around the corner, that still is "in the bush." Get that bird in hand, and you'll be happy with it regardless. The machines will last, and are worth it no matter how fast the next new machine is. There will always be a faster machine down the road. But the question becomes will it save you the time you have lost waiting for it? I don't think so.
"A bird in hand is worth more than two in the bush." Waiting since February, you've lost 5 months of potentially productive working time on your machine. Why waste more? It isn't worth the wait.
As much as the rumor mongers on this board want you to believe another machine is just around the corner, that still is "in the bush." Get that bird in hand, and you'll be happy with it regardless. The machines will last, and are worth it no matter how fast the next new machine is. There will always be a faster machine down the road. But the question becomes will it save you the time you have lost waiting for it? I don't think so.
But is it at Max settings and do you build big cities, my 2500XP PC starts to jerk a bit when I build very big cities and putt settings to max. The PB will run Sim City fine, but it will jerk a bit if you max out the settings (which was the question).
Any the new PBs are meant to be out in a few days at Jobs financial presentation. He has done it before at this events. The old 12in and 17in PBs are also sold out at most resalers.
Mav451,
>>XP is only "bogged down" if you let it. I can send you the registry entry that basically disables all the bg services that most users do not need<<
While I'm debating on a PB or i-Book, I'm stuck with XP Home and it is so slowwwww. I'd love to get the entry's that will make it run a bit faster. I've gone to msconfig and have played with it, but I bet there is even more I can do.
Thanks. (Amazing-I get more XP help here than on the XP boards
Frank
>>XP is only "bogged down" if you let it. I can send you the registry entry that basically disables all the bg services that most users do not need<<
While I'm debating on a PB or i-Book, I'm stuck with XP Home and it is so slowwwww. I'd love to get the entry's that will make it run a bit faster. I've gone to msconfig and have played with it, but I bet there is even more I can do.
Thanks. (Amazing-I get more XP help here than on the XP boards
Frank