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I Need Your Input!!! Apple vs PC/Broadband Questions
David In Indy:
Katherine, thanks for telling me about your experiences with the Apple. I suppose I got sucked into all those cute "I'm a PC, I'm a Mac" commercials with Justin Long. And although I have talked to many people who are very pleased with their Apples, I never considered the learning curve involved. I hadn't realized Apples and PCs are THAT different from each other.
A friend of mine was telling me about a program you can buy - I forget the name of it - which allows the Apple computer to run Windows programs. I think it is called "Apple to Windows" or something like that. I'm not sure how much it costs though. And then I suppose I would have to also purchase a copy of Windows to load on the computer. That could get expensive and I'm not sure how well the program works. Are you familiar with it?
As Laura correctly pointed out, I have many programs I would like to run on the Apple. And if this program isn't dependable, well, that would be a huge negative as far as I'm concerned.
I used to be pretty knowledgable with these computers, but I haven't kept up with them these past few years. Now they have all these new fangled bells and whistles and goodies on them and I'm not sure what most of them are supposed to do. It's very confusing. My HP laptop is getting old though and so is my desktop PC (both are about 4 years old) and I'm ready to get something new and up to date. And the prices have really dropped over these past four years. I am amazed at the prices. A friend of mine who works up at Fry's told me to wait a few more weeks because the prices will be dropping again. So I figure I'll probably make my purchase during the first couple weeks of March. So I still have some time to look and decide.
Thanks again for all your help! I really appreciate it. You have no idea how big of a help you all are!
Penthesilea:
Obviously, I can't say anything about providers in the US :laugh:.
And I don't know much about Apple either. I used one only once. I wrote a few emails and surfed BM for a while with the Mac, did some posting, and that was it. I manged to get this done without asking anybody, but the little differences were annoying, it was trial and error. I didn't find out how to open a second window for example, had to do everything with the back and forth buttons.
I know Elle has got a Mac, maybe you should PM her and point her to this thread.
It might also be good to add something like "PC/Mac decision" into the title of the thread. Or simply "computer questions".
In general, with all Apple products you pay not only for the functional part, you also pay for the name and for the fun. We have two Apple products, an iPod and iPod Shuffle (Leslie! :-* :D) - and they are indeed much fun! They're cute and have wonderful colors and handling them is simply more fun that handling a similar non-Apple product. I'd buy these lil gadgets from Apple in a minute, but I'm not sure if the fun factor is worth the higher prize when it comes to the PC/Mac question.
louisev:
One word about Sony.
DO NOT GET. A VAIO. i REPEAT. DO NOT. GET. A VAIO.
I tried to fix and restore a friend's Vaio and it was impossible. Even after purchasing - from Sony- a restore disk. He lost everything.
Don't do it.
David In Indy:
Thanks Chrissi! That is a good suggestion. I changed the title of the thread. :)
David In Indy:
--- Quote from: louisev on February 16, 2010, 03:30:03 pm ---One word about Sony.
DO NOT GET. A VAIO. i REPEAT. DO NOT. GET. A VAIO.
I tried to fix and restore a friend's Vaio and it was impossible. Even after purchasing - from Sony- a restore disk. He lost everything.
Don't do it.
--- End quote ---
That was the other computer I was considering, Louise!
From the ad -
Sony with Intel Core i5 processor with Turbo Boost Technology. 13.3 inch screen, 4GB DDR3 memory, 500 GB hard drive, 5 hour battery life, 4-way processing, Intel Wireless Display Technology, Windows 7 Home Edition Premium, wireless N technology and webcam. Includes Software Installer.
Best Buy is selling it for $1049.99.
So this is a bad idea then? It sounds like your friend wound up in a huge mess. I'm glad he had you to try and help straighten everything out. :)
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