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Originally posted by Zeke
Well, I knew that would come out at some point. Anything mass produced for the gigazillions of users is gonna have its faults. But, maybe you could be more constructive and help me here, not simply intimidate me.
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I came on here looking for a consensus. That's all. No need to be negative.
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Sorry, didn't mean to be intimidating. However that is my mantra and I've broadcast it for a while now.
Dell has screwed me at the consumer level (I'm sure you read my laptop thread) and they've screwed me at the business level as well (corporate--I manage a high performance simulation lab as one of my many "hats" and a few years ago our IT dept locked us into Dell products, which has caused our productivity to suffer due to frequent hardware failures, machines arriving DOA, OS crashes, etc. And I'll be stuck with them for all eternity since our lab budget comes from our IT dept.). IT departments go with the hardware and software that keep them needed--otherwise they won't have any budget next year!
I concur with the folks recommending the PC Club if you don't want to go the Apple/Mac route. If you can perform your own service, or take the computer to a live body and hand it off, you'll get the best response time!
Now the reason to go the Mac route:
+MUCH lower risk of virii, intrusion, trojans, worms, et al.
+If there is an Apple store near you you'll get decent LIVE ENGLISH-SPEAKING service.
+Unless you're a balls-out gamer (which you're not) you'll have access to all the software you need--most of it already bundled--despite what the rest of the folks here say.
+There are even a few games to play.
+TONS of free software. OpenOffice 2.0 is all I use at home, and it'll read and save MS Office format docs, if that's important to you.
I hacked together a DVD of my son...ripped it off our DV camera in iMovie, slapped together some menus in iDVD, and sent it to my parents. Never read any directions, it was that easy to figure out. And my technophobe parents just threw it in the DVD player I had bought them and pushed "Play". Couldn't be easier.
You get what you pay for. Most of the time, anyway.
