The University bought me a new Dell Precision M4300 Laptop a couple of months ago, and out of the 400 users at our part of the college (College of Forest Resources) I am the first one to start using Vista. It is awesome!!! Not one complaint from me at all. It just works. But I do love the PC versus Mac commercials, they are hilarious.

 

no searching for drivers with the mac because if they don't have it nobody does. :P
Mac's are great for what they do but are not power machines like i need for my CAD software.

 

XPS - there is no substitute

 

Here is my next laptop for home......my wife doesn't know yet, so lets keep this on the down low. Or is it low down?

http://www.dell.com/content/products...=dhs&cs=19





Yes its a large 20 inch laptop, but I'm not about compact. That thing is awesome, wireless mouse and keyboard, and when you fold it there is a built in handle.

 

SWEEEEET! You will love it. Had the XPS M1710 laptop for 2 years - never a problem, never found a game it won't play at max video settings. Had my XPS 700 desktop for a year, same results.Lovethem!!!!

 

"Computers are useless. They can only give you is answers."
- Pablo Picaso

"The goal of computer science is to commercialize technology and get it to market before it becomes obsolete."
- Unknown

"Computer technology is not ready for humans to use, but being the stubborn animals that we are, we don't let that stop us."
- Me

 

"Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray."
- Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.

 

1986 Mac Plus Vs. 07 AMD DualCore. You Won't Believe Who Wins
from http://hubpages.com/hub/_86_Mac_Plus...lieve_Who_Wins

Bottom Line:
Check out the results! For the functions that people use most often, the 1986 vintage Mac Plus beats the 2007 AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+: 9 tests to 8! Out of the 17 tests, the antique Mac won 53% of the time! Including a jaw-dropping 52 second whipping of the AMD from the time the Power button is pushed to the time the Desktop is up and useable.

We also didn't want to overly embarrass the AMD by comparing the time it takes to install the OS vs. the old Mac. The Mac's average of about a minute is dwarfed by the approximately one hour install time of Windows XP Pro.

Is this to say that the Mac Plus is a better computer than the AMD? Of course not. The technological advancements of 21 years have placed modern PCs in a completely different league of varied capacities. But the "User Experience" has not changed much in two decades. Due to bloated code that has to incorporate hundreds of functions that average users don't even know exist, let alone ever utilize, the software companies have weighed down our PCs to effectively neutralize their vast speed advantages. When we compare strictly common, everyday, basic user tasks between the Mac Plus and the AMD we find remarkable similarities in overall speed, thus it can be stated that for the majority of simple office uses, the massive advances in technology in the past two decades have brought zero advance in productivity.

 

My computer can beat up your computer!

 

Sorry to resurrect this but I had to thank jsac. I updated my windows one care, got the latest IE 7 something but firefox cured the IE error terror.