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Originally Posted by kaisen
I bought a 17" Hewlett-Packard Pavilion G7 last month for $350
Why someone would spend $2200 on a laptop is truly beyond my comprehension
I realize that people will have perfectly rational explanations of how they "need" x, y, or z, but they always sound like "wants" to me
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light wt. for one - this has to be carried around outdoors & operate while camping recharge from a vehicle battery
the lighted keyboard is for use outdoors in low light levels
one thing that I am starting to find attractive about the Apple computers is that the same entity is responsible for
also, it starting to look like Apple produces comparable machines cheaper than others and a year or so earlier than other manfs. can catch up - maybe not so much for desktops
I am not fond of their high prices on desktops - the ipad & iphone do not seem much more expensive than other manfs. and same for the Air books
I have gone thru several Dell and Thinkpad laptops - always nice, but I am getting very tired of effing around with the BS from MS all the time. If there is a problem hardware blames software & etc. It gets old after a few decades. Apple might -- might - provide some escape from that.
I tried a 13" Airbook last summer but the screen is just too small for me w/o wearing glasses.
I don't play games on computers (well, I have played Spacewar on a PDP-8 long ago) but I spend way too much time in front of the machine working on it to recreate on it. I could edit photos on it I guess, but sitting in front of a computer is about the last thing I need more of.