Quick question re. purchasing laptops
#46
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Re: Quick question re. purchasing laptops
How about Editing in Final Cut Pro, Grading in Color and animating in After Effects.. all at the same time?
Your right though, with a high enough end PC you can get the same sort of results. Im just saying from my experience, coming from a PC for many years and switching to a Mac, the difference is eye-opening - for some of the stuff I do (see above)
Your right though, with a high enough end PC you can get the same sort of results. Im just saying from my experience, coming from a PC for many years and switching to a Mac, the difference is eye-opening - for some of the stuff I do (see above)
#47
Re: Quick question re. purchasing laptops
Plus I can take a PC apart, fix bits, upgrade bits and am not tied to one brand
But you are right with
Guess it depends what you are used to. I know my way around a PC and not Mac.
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Re: Quick question re. purchasing laptops
Mac's don't just add there own memory or a new hard drive themselves, In that respect that are still just a PC.. and sorry but they do break and fail just the same as any other PC, its just that parts are much more expensive..
I know my way around *nix, which is what a Mac is based on, and to be honest it may be better than windows, but not by enough to justify the price tag
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#49
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Re: Quick question re. purchasing laptops
Getting back to the original question, laptops (and/or Apple products) are cheaper in Canada than the UK.
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Re: Quick question re. purchasing laptops
and if you're prepared to use ebay and buy direct from China.............
#51
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Mac's don't just add there own memory or a new hard drive themselves, In that respect that are still just a PC.. and sorry but they do break and fail just the same as any other PC, its just that parts are much more expensive
I guess what us Mac users are saying is that we are willing to pay more to not have as many "issues" with our laptop as you would have with a Windows based PC.
Getting back to the original question, laptops (and/or Apple products) are cheaper in Canada than the UK.
and to push the point cheaper still in the US.......
and if you're prepared to use ebay and buy direct from China.............
and if you're prepared to use ebay and buy direct from China.............
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Re: Quick question re. purchasing laptops
Granted. But, I figured what I needed for memory and haven't found a need to add more (may change years down the road) and I keep it clean with most large files (all my photos, music, movies) that I'm not using are kept on external drives. I haven't had any hard drive issues on our three Mac's and asking around the office neither has anyone else (not saying that it doesn't happen).
I guess what us Mac users are saying is that we are willing to pay more to not have as many "issues" with our laptop as you would have with a Windows based PC.
I guess what us Mac users are saying is that we are willing to pay more to not have as many "issues" with our laptop as you would have with a Windows based PC.
Hard drive failures are around the same, which isn't really a surprise as Mac's use a common std drive nothing special, power supply failures when we've had issues with the mains are just as common on the mac as it is on a PC, they are no more robust or spike tolerant..
I sorry but hardware wise a Mac is just another Intel PC, software wise its an expensive fancy *nix clone, with a lot of licensing around it..
Worth the money if you hire graphic designers, because those literate on non Mac hardware come at a cost...
but for home use, like I said, only worth the cash if you've already got a lot of apple products you want to connect easily..
#53
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software wise its an expensive fancy *nix clone
I'll still stand by the Mac as way less headaches when compared with PC on *dows especially for people (or in my case, my teenage girls) that just want to turn the thing on and have it work.
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Re: Quick question re. purchasing laptops
Same comment as my brother-in-law as he is PC guy that likes to build his own computers from scratch. But don't the majority of PC users run with Windows? maybe it should *nix vs *dows.
I'll still stand by the Mac as way less headaches when compared with PC on *dows especially for people (or in my case, my teenage girls) that just want to turn the thing on and have it work.
I'll still stand by the Mac as way less headaches when compared with PC on *dows especially for people (or in my case, my teenage girls) that just want to turn the thing on and have it work.
Windoze has improved a lot..
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Re: Quick question re. purchasing laptops
I end this argument with.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5z0Ia5jDt4 (to be taken light heart-idly)
#56
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It depends, of course, on the intended use of the machine but, if it's internet browsing, email, looking at pictures taken with a digital camera; normal domestic use, then go to Costco, get whatever they have for $500, run it for three years, then throw it away. A computer is just a domestic appliance now, you shouldn't have to think about it more than you do about your toaster.
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Re: Quick question re. purchasing laptops
It depends, of course, on the intended use of the machine but, if it's internet browsing, email, looking at pictures taken with a digital camera; normal domestic use, then go to Costco, get whatever they have for $500, run it for three years, then throw it away. A computer is just a domestic appliance now, you shouldn't have to think about it more than you do about your toaster.
Oh and I threw off that piece of junk called Windows 7, but that's another story...
#58
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I end this argument with.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5z0Ia5jDt4 (to be taken light heart-idly)
#59
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Not exactly fast, particularly when rendering in both programs at the same time, but it got the job done. You might have had a good argument back when Mac and PCs had very different hardware, but today you can buy a Windows PC with exactly the same hardware as most Macs for a fraction of the price.