D2 spilled water in her laptop.

BCEagle91
Sun, 16 Jan 2011 19:15:54 +0000

A three-year-old laptop shouldn’t have performance problems. My daughter’s MacBook Pro is 3.5 years, mine is 3 years. No problems that haven’t been fixed by Apple. The major problem with laptops from 2007/2008 was defective nVidia graphics chips which affected all manufacturers.

There may be viruses or spyware issues on the old Dell laptop along with some hardware problems. Dell has had a hard time the last few years on laptops. They go through ups and downs on quality.

I prefer Apple Mac products because I prefer Mac OS X over Windows. Especially on laptops. That said, Apple is placing more of their R&D resources on mobile products today and they typically lag the rest of the PC companies on getting the latest technology out there. I am going to replace my six-year-old desktop shortly and it will be a Windows 7 desktop that I am going to build myself. I would prefer an iMac but there is no indication that Apple is going to start using Intel’s latest chip anytime soon.