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Capt Doufos said:
You used one of there current ones latley?

My last 3 laptops have been dell, and the build quality just keeps getting better. The 9300 I currently have has by far the best Laptop Screen I have ever used.

For the size of laptop it is very light, but still very solidly built. Not flismy at all.
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Exactly what Im talking about. You'd think the people replying had never used a Dell in the past year.
 
Capt Doufos said:
You used one of there current ones latley?
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Good for you, glad the Dell ones are working out for you.

My experience (yes > 12 months old) was with a 500 user company in the UK who bought Dell laptops. They had a huge failure rate of the laptops. Switched to IBM (now Levono) and the failure rate was quartered in the space of a few months.

My mother has a Dell laptop too, and it broke on her in 2 months.

Now this might be down to external factors, but it's convinced me to not touch them.

On a seperate Dell experience, I had a customer who bought Dell servers, and they were quite slow and more flakey than I expected from server kit.

And I'll admit they may be better now, but I'll pass.

So, that's why it was funny.
 
Energize said:
But actually yeah windows movie maker is pretty good.
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In my opinion, WMM is truely sparse compared to iMovie/iDVD.

But, horses for courses.

Disclosure: I have 3 macs (Powerbook, MacBook Pro, iMac), 3 PCs (IBM Thinkpad x2, Desktop for gaming), and 2 PC servers (Mini-itx firewall), Windows 2003 server.
 
noxidjkram@hotm said:
MACs are great at what they do.

PCs are great at what they do.

They are just great in different ways.

You wouldnt get me off my PCs for a MAC - but my mate loves his. Horses for courses.

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Well I have got both mac and pc at home & work :D :cool:

I use Macs all day long, have done for the last 12 years, they are good especially for DTP/Graphics work, much better 'feel' if you know what I mean.
 
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Hamish said:
Nah you already sold me yours!

/me strokes lovely Mac Mini, i'm tempted to buy an intel one now and ditch my PC but the lack of HDD up space / upgradability sucks.

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I want my mac mini back!!! :p

Nice to see it Hamish, nice clean wirefree desk...

I forgot to tell these guys I had already bough a mac computer in the past. :o

and with the way that looks, all neat with a nice monitor, another one might be heading this way \o/

(would go nice with a 27" or 32" dell monitor?)
 
"Most tech people use windows,"
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Yeah right. Work in the support department for ANY IT company and you'd retract that statement in milliseconds. There are hundreds of thousands of clueless PC owners out there. Using Windows doesn't make you more 'tech savvy' in the slightest. Besides, I'd wager that someone who knows OSX inside out is far more skilled compared to someone who knows Windows inside out. There is no comparison. My money goes to the Unix guru any day.

OSX and its BSD heart is superb. Stable, powerful, functional and a tech heads dream platform. Despite the slick interface hiding the fact, there is more to play with in the guts of OSX than Windows ever offered. We'll have to wait and see what Vista offers us as a comparison.

I have a 20" G5 iMac on my desk, sat next to a brand new AMD FX-60 box. Both have 2GB of RAM (the memory in my iMac I bought from OCUK). I have a Razer Diamondback gaming mouse connected to my iMac, works no problems. Built-in zero configuration wireless and bluetooth, a gorgeous screen and a wonderful keyboard all help. Hell I have used Mac keyboards on my PCs for years before even owning a Mac.

For the work I do I can switch easily between the two, no problems. There are a few apps I use that are specific to Windows, and some that I can only get on OSX - but such is life.

If you are a cutting edge gamer don't even consider a Mac. If you love rebuilding your PC, adding new parts, etc every week - again, don't consider a Mac. However if most of the time you actually have work to get done, it makes very little difference in the end.

To the guy that started this thread - welcome ;) When I first got my Mac after many years of PC use, I found it really really hard to get to grips with! The different keyboard layout will drive you insane to begin with. And assuming the zoom button 'maximises' (which it doesn't) is a real learning curve. But give it some time and you'll learn to love what it can do - and it can do a LOT.
 
richtgc said:
Yeah right. Work in the support department for ANY IT company and you'd retract that statement in milliseconds. There are hundreds of thousands of clueless PC owners out there. Using Windows doesn't make you more 'tech savvy' in the slightest. Besides, I'd wager that someone who knows OSX inside out is far more skilled compared to someone who knows Windows inside out. There is no comparison. My money goes to the Unix guru any day.

OSX and its BSD heart is superb. Stable, powerful, functional and a tech heads dream platform. Despite the slick interface hiding the fact, there is more to play with in the guts of OSX than Windows ever offered. We'll have to wait and see what Vista offers us as a comparison.

I have a 20" G5 iMac on my desk, sat next to a brand new AMD FX-60 box. Both have 2GB of RAM (the memory in my iMac I bought from OCUK). I have a Razer Diamondback gaming mouse connected to my iMac, works no problems. Built-in zero configuration wireless and bluetooth, a gorgeous screen and a wonderful keyboard all help. Hell I have used Mac keyboards on my PCs for years before even owning a Mac.

For the work I do I can switch easily between the two, no problems. There are a few apps I use that are specific to Windows, and some that I can only get on OSX - but such is life.

If you are a cutting edge gamer don't even consider a Mac. If you love rebuilding your PC, adding new parts, etc every week - again, don't consider a Mac. However if most of the time you actually have work to get done, it makes very little difference in the end.

To the guy that started this thread - welcome ;) When I first got my Mac after many years of PC use, I found it really really hard to get to grips with! The different keyboard layout will drive you insane to begin with. And assuming the zoom button 'maximises' (which it doesn't) is a real learning curve. But give it some time and you'll learn to love what it can do - and it can do a LOT.
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I never said using windows makes you more technically skilled. Just that most tech people use windows which is true, a lot of people who are technicans have never used osx, how many big IT companies use osx instead of windows?
 
I got me one of them 20" intelMacs too!

It's a great looking machine, so sleek and nice to use, and very quiet and cool running. The screen is absolutely awesome, OSX is lovely to use and iLife with Garageband is ace. The Bluetooth and Airport wi-fi worked straight out of the box with hardly any configuration, and the built-in iSight camera is cool. I say all this as an IT technician, a Windows user of 8 years, and a gaming system builder.... who jumped ship a few months back.

But to get my Windows fix and play the latest games, I tried out Boot Camp. It's superb. It allows you to install Windows XP with SP2 very easily on a partition it creates, and you can choose which OS you want to boot into at start up by holding down a key.

Windows flies on this hardware. As do a lot of current games. I've just completed Half-Life 2 again on my iMac using 1680 x 1050 rez with all settings cranked to max (except AA & water) and it was as smooth as silk. Tomb Raider Legend plays great too at the same rez, and Oblivion is fine at medium settings. Most other games I've tried run fast and pretty too.

Okay, it is a fairly expensive machine... but only about the same price as an Intel Dual Core PC laptop of the same spec with a titchy 15" screen. I just got fed up of endlessly configuring and rebuilding and debugging noisy power-hungry homemade Windows boxes - so I took the plunge at my local Apple Store after getting a juicy tax rebate and selling my PC.

I don't regret the move, I spend more time using it rather than mucking about with the insides, but there are a few annoyances. The DVD-RW drive is occassionally very noisy and slow. And when using quality headphones or external speakers there is an annoying multi-tonal buzzing sound that I have discovered is caused by USB optical mice, including the one it comes with. Using a wireless bluetooth mouse solves the problem. But not the useless Apple one, 'cos thats only got one button and no scroller!

Overall, a good buy and a joy to use. Just don't get caught licking it. Because you will want to.

;)
 
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