Keep on telling yourself that if it helps you feel superior for buying a piece of crap computer. You’re like some putz going to Walmart to but cheap pasteboard furniture complaining that furniture at other places cost too much even though it actually holds together for more than a year.
Apparently you’re too stupid to own a Mac.
I’ve got an Acer Aspire One, which is pretty similar. Want to internet stuff and all that? Great. Want to type a paper? You’ll want to hang yourself.
-Joe
I guess you have different definition of “crap” than the rest of us. I’m perfectly happy with my Toshiba Satellite - it does everything I need it to do. Unless a new Mac will also make me coffee and give me a back rub, I really don’t see myself shelling out the extra shekels to buy one.
How about wine?
Spoken like someone who’s never actually owned a midrange PC laptop–both the HPs I’ve had stood up to several years of travel and hard usage, ditto the Dells in a similar price range.
I have one going on seven years old. Its a Dell.
My Toshiba is 11 years old. The battery still works. I have no idea how.
However, the Compaqs that were rebranded HP right about the time of the merger sucked ass like a vacuum cleaner at the center of a black hole…
-Joe
This was posted on a Dell Inspiron 7000. “Optimized for Windows 98!”
Actually the way OS X is setup vs Windows or Linux architecture I have to say OS X users are assumed by apple to be the stupid ones.
Windows has alot of the same paddings as OS X, but they can be turned off if the user so chooses. Windows also lets you go to town on it’s guts. You want to play with the drivers? Go right ahead. Run windows on unsupported components? Go for it bro. It might not work but you can try. Windows provides a good middle road environment. It’s simple to use but you have access to more advanced stuff if you need it.
Linux and it’s Open Source environment takes this attitude to the max. You’re not even limited to X86 or X64, you can run it on X86, X64, PPC, ARM, Itanium, whatever. Linux don’t give a fuck. Linux just assumes you’re smart enough to use the advanced stuff. It’s made a lot of progress simplifying but to really take advantage of the amazing stuff you can do with Linux you do need to know how to use it.
Meanwhile OS X only runs on certain “approved (read apple taxes paid)” systems, hides most of the operating system directories from the user, and quite frankly finder is the shittiest file manager ever. OS X is so scared of the big incompetent user finder has no way to view hidden files. OS X’s search utility makes Vista’s look good, and like I said before that’s truly amazing. They must have really had to burn the midnight oil to come up with something worse then Vista’s search. But they did.
As said before in this thread Apple hardware is way over priced. You can usually find the exact same PC components for way less.
That’s insanely true. One of my college girlfriends had a desktop from that era and it was scary-bad. On the other hand, the HP Compaq mid-range business laptops have been indestructible in my experience since at least 2005.