Originally posted by ddtlm
jefhatfield:
Yeah Dell is certainly not perfect either. Mine has some areas where the fit and finish isn't quite right, and a little rubber area by the keyboard can contact the screen when it's closed. Win XP is good enough for my games, haven't used it for a whole lot else.
I like the size of the 4150 much better, and it comes with all the same performance stuff except for video, which is only a Radeon 7500 Mob.
Anyway, if Apple would fix the paint issues, I would seriously consider a PBook that comes after the current model. Or whatever model they go to the 130nm G4.
i went thru a period, when i was first a tech a few years back and starting out working with broken dell laptops, that i though dell sucked
but compared to my compaq laptop, which i keep healthy (which is key...always defrag
), dell gets pretty good reviewsi have considered getting a p4 dell laptop and $1249 us is hard to beat and if something goes wrong with it, i have a huge advantage knowing these machines and having my former mentor who taught me the dell stuff, just a phone call away
with service related issues, it's always good to know a techie as a friend instead of blindly dropping off your machine at the closest computer superstore
in the small area where i live and everybody knows everybody, the local independent apple dealer here, while not dirt cheap, will still not knowlingly rip you off
they carry products they know that work from decades of being in the high tech, and later, the home pc business
the official apple store i have seen sells things based on corporate connections and good volume deals, so if you buy anything from an apple store, research the heck out of it first
i don't have to worry about it at the local independent apple store where i live because instead of a genius bar, there are techie salespeople that have actually used the products and hand picked them from their experiences and the experiences of their loyal clientele
i will get another ibook next year...that is a given
but for my pc business, i will need windows xp for initial microsoft re-certification and get to know the thing inside and out, and then i will need it for my computer teaching job of teaching seniors new pc games on the market
so i have been looking into a dell, or a compaq 700 series, or maybe even an ibm (but ibm's retail, business and home pc division, tanked so i could only buy the machines sight unseen, online)
the dells are so common, i just have to look around the school or ask friends
it is funny how when i first started using the apple IIs and mac, ibm was the enemy
and after the huge success of windows, then microsoft was the enemy
and now with mike dell controlling the hardware market, dell is apple's sworn enemy
it is a free country and ok to have a mac and a windows running dell machine