[BNM] Laptop recommendations

[David Andrew]

laptop: Macbook pro
price: £1100

After 12 years predominantly being a pc user I bought into a macbook
pro 2 months ago and am more than happy with my purchase. It was dear
compared to a pc but... in my case the facility of beeing able to run
both OSX & XP Pro it makes the transfer from mac to pc allot easier -
plus it's a portable dev/design unit and impeccably well built.

For the extra I paid over a pc laptop it was worth it. It has already
paid for itself.

fav bit = magnetic power connector (my mates traditional female/male
socket cost £130 to repair after it started comming loose)

D

On 21/05/07, Aegir Hallmundur <aegir.hallmundur at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sony laptops are normally pretty good build quality. They last for bloody
> ages too. They come preloaded with absolutely tons of junk like Norton
> Nagware so it should be a pleasure to blow it all away with the cleansing
> wind of Linux.
>
> Aegir
>
> On 5/21/07, Guy Tierney <guy at south.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > +1 for the Apple - yes its expensive but cool things usually are ;D
> > gt
> >
> >
> > on 21/5/07 2:58 pm, Paul Silver at paul at tenpastmidnight.com wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 21 May 2007 14:36:38 +0100, "Antony Jones"
> > > <antonyj at gamesys.co.uk> said:
> > >>> Any recommendations folks?
> > >>
> > >> As usual I'll recommend Dell. I've bought 7 of the them now, endlessly
> > >> reliable, easy and cheap to upgrade, 100% compatible with Linux, and
> > >> parts like DVD+RW drives etc are available years after the laptop was
> > >> purchased, because unlike some moronic providers, they don't change
> > >> their components/design every single model.
> > >>
> > >> But splash on a Latitude, not an Inspiron :) My latest is the D420
> > >
> > > (If Antony posts on a thread, seems someone has to argue with him, this
> > > time it's my turn to disagree...)
> > >
> > > I'd currently recommend against going Dell. My mum's laptop is just
> > > coming up to a year and a half old and has had a replacement motherboard
> > > and graphics chipset (it had the blue line problem that's been quite
> > > common recently). Also I know a couple of other people who've had
> > > problems with Dell's at the higher end of the cost scale.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, I can't recommend a PC manufacturer for laptops because
> > > my only recent experience has been Dell, though I will say my AST is
> > > great, still going after 12 years. Don't think it'll do Vista any time
> > > soon though.
> > >
> > > If you do go Dell, buying the extra warranty will probably sort you out.
> > >
> > > (Insert obligatory plug for Apple laptop, you could always wipe OSX
> > > install XP on it :-) )
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > >
> > > Paul
> >
> >
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