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Unread 04-02-2010, 23:30
Mark Rozitis
 
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Re: Should I buy a Mac or a PC?

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Originally Posted by Willdabeast View Post
I feel that a lot of people have been brainwashed by apple. Mac does have a lot of advantages, like they can't get viruses and the user interface is pretty nice. But I feel that they are very overpriced, especially laptops. And yes, Windows Vista is terrible, but the new Windows 7 is fantastic, speaking on behalf of 4 of my friends who have expressed similar opinions of it.

If you want a nice, inexpensive laptop that is powerful, you should go with a Asus.
I'll second the motion on Asus! I work in news and lately we got into live high end video streaming and encoding and when I looked around for something powerful I looked at what the gamers use and Asus came onto the radar and now my "desktop" is my older Asus G50v and my laptop is my new Asus G51 quad core.

Ok, maybe not as tough as a Thinkpad or Toughbook so you have to handle them with care but for what you get in terms of resources for the money Asus is awesome.

Only negative is the battery life but I really shouldn't even say that since I have only tested in performance power mode and 60 min is about what I get.

I looked at MAC but there were some things that may still not work like USB to serial programming cables for programming some radios that I use to monitor emergency services and scanners and that one thing is critical for me, even running windows on the mac there was some doubt this USB to serial interface would work.

I looked at the specs on the Asus and was blown away and when it came time for the new machine it was Asus all the way.

A lot of future proofing in these machines, I run windows 7 on them and as long as I don't drop one hard I probably will get 5-7 years out of them if I want to.

mark

Last edited by Mark Rozitis : 04-02-2010 at 23:36.
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