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07-09-2006, 10:54 PM
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#16 | | Senior Member
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| No, Penn's printers are not Bluetooth capable. However I'd still get it as it's very handy for, say, synching with your cell phone.
Granted, I'm the Apple Campus rep and it is literally my job to say this, but I honestly think a Mac would be better--especially now that they can run Windows should you need it for some unfortunate reason.
MacBooks are very sturdy beause Apple designs their notebooks in a matter resembling that of an exoskeleton. The structural integrity is not with internal braces a la PCs but in the hard case itself which means fewer assembled parts to break and greater amount of material to absorb shocks. Apple is also careful not to design the MacBooks so that there are any protruding portions that could easily break. The whole thing is completely flush when closed. Heck there isn't even a latch to break anymore, as Apple has replaced it with a nifty magnetic latch with 0 moving parts. | 
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07-16-2006, 11:04 AM
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#17 | | Junior Member
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| If anyone wants to use filesharing apps on their computers, a Mac is by far the better machine.
Spyware/adware will wreak havoc on your PCs while Macs (from what I have seen) are resistant to these threats, even without antivirus software. Even if you don't use filesharing software, you will probably be online all the time thanks to broadband. Always being connected will open the door for more malware to get on your system. | |
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07-16-2006, 11:15 AM
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#18 | | Member
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| If you know what you are doing, you will mostly not get crap on your computer. Learn what a firewall does (there are a lot of free ones, like zone alarm), install the antivirus that penn gives you, get adaware / spybot, and don't download useless / illegal crap. If you follow these basic rules you will be largely adware/virus free | |
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07-16-2006, 12:51 PM
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| Very true MJ but using a Mac is much more hassle free, from my experience at least. | |
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07-16-2006, 05:24 PM
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#20 | | Senior Member
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| Using a mac is only hasslefree if you're not terribly computer literate. Not that there aren't great reasons to use a mac, but they're just friendlier if you need friendliness. | |
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07-17-2006, 06:41 AM
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#21 | | Junior Member
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| Not true. Running four or five virus/malware scanners weekly to make sure system speed is not slowly being compromised. Macs are more secure. | |
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07-17-2006, 12:41 PM
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#22 | | Junior Member
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| Which laptop
Hey there,
I need to buy a laptop for use at Penn. Maybe you can give me good advice.
A lot of people were convincing me to get a MAC, but for financial and other reasons I wanna stick with Windows.
I wanna waste around 1400 dollars on it. I would go from 1400 up to, lets say, 1600, only if it was really necessary and an excellent investment.
I was thinking bout getting a DELL or IBM from Penn Connections, but lately a lot of people are tellin me the Sony VAIO laptops are the best fot the price range Im aiming for. So Im planning to get the VAIO FS or FE series (online).
Any thoughts? Thankx a lot | |
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07-17-2006, 06:52 PM
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#23 | | Member
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| it's really not a big deal. You can schedule a lot of programs to run at night so you don't have to deal with decreased performance / hassle, and they autoupdate | |
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07-17-2006, 09:14 PM
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#24 | | New Member
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| mac hacks are on the rise, theyre not gonna be that safe for long. | |
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07-17-2006, 09:20 PM
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#25 | | Senior Member
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| Sure attacks are on the rise (anything up from the previous zero would be a rise), but they're not going to rise that much. Furthermore the Mac is built on a fundamentally more secure UNIX platform.
No the Mac is not invinceable, but it's certainly a lot safer than Windows. The proof is in the pudding, and I have no better proof than that neither my Mac or the Mac of any of my friends and colleagues has never gotten a blip of spyware, viruses, or hacking. | |
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03-12-2007, 12:13 AM
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#26 | | Senior Member
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| Johnny K--as Macs become more popular, the hacking will increase. And the biggest problem with this is that there are no commercially available virus-scanning programs available for the Mac at the current time. At least with the Windows platform there are Kaspersky, McAfee, Norton (Symatec), and many others that at least do a halfway decent job.
Linux is safer than any of the operating systems offered by either Apple or Microsoft, but this doesn't mean that people will adapt to this, since it is difficult to learn. The same applies to Apple. Since people like easy things to use, the hackers will attack these as they become more popular and easier to use. Just give it time. | |
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05-10-2007, 08:54 PM
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| Calcruzer: Norton has anti-virus software for Mac. Check out its website. | |
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05-10-2007, 09:48 PM
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#28 | | Senior Member
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| Calcruzer: Norton has it, and moreover Penn provides it for free to Penn students.
Regardless, I personally don't use it nor do I recommend using it as the overhead just wastes system resources, and frankly if a Mac virus were ever in a wild it would be so amazing as to be in the news.
Am I cocky? Absolutely, and justifiably so. | |
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05-11-2007, 02:54 PM
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#29 | | Member
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| Just buy the cheapest lappy there is and install Ubuntu on it. | |
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05-15-2007, 07:59 AM
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#30 | | Junior Member
Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Philadelphia-UPENN Wharton'10
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| Hey everyone,
You can get a student discount of up to 12% at Penn's Dell Website. Computer Connection doesnt have a wide selection so I would recommend going to www.dell.com/penn
to see other computers with a great discount. The computers on this website allow you to customize the computers as to buying the prepackaged laptops available at Computer Connection.
Good luck with your computer purchases!!!! www.dell.com/penn
If you have any questions about Dell please feel free to email me dchilds@dellrep.com | |
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