<p>Oh and the word on the street is: don’t buy any laptops right now, Intel is making a new processor codenamed Yonah that will be in newer laptops soon. So hold out if you can, it sounds like it is faster and more efficient than Centrino, but we’ll see. I think Dell already has 3 laptops that they are designing to include Yonah, as well as NEC, and Apple hopefully as well.</p>
<p>Very true. Yonah will supposedly be 58% more efficient and 33% more battery life from an article I read awhile ago.</p>
<p>In reference to post number 80:</p>
<p>Most laptops (and especially most desktops), no matter how cheap, have WAAAAYYYY more than 19MB of RAM. The cheapest Apple iBook comes with 512MB of RAM, and I think 256MB is at least the standard nowadays. If someone came to me and told me that they had 19MB of RAM, I would tell them that it’s time to invest in a SERIOUS update. I think you might have meant GB of RAM?..</p>
<p>However, you’re right if you meant GB. The Apple PowerMac G5 with the quad core processors can only hold up to 16GB, and that’s the most powerful computer I know!</p>
<p>You’re right about the hard drive, too. The new iBooks come with 40GB standard now, so 180MB is like…WOW! They even made computers like that?</p>
<p>…If you can’t tell already, I’m like the poster girl for Macintosh…They’re the best!</p>
<p>Well, re post 80…</p>
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<p>Mighty impressive laptop for 20 years ago ;). I had an old 386 desktop with 4mb ram (later upgraded to 8 megs!)…and a dot matrix printer…and this was maybe 10 years ago.</p>
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<p>Well, if you will notice both of you just said exactly what I said in reference to a different poster. So, forwarding that to me is useless because that’s exactly what I said.</p>
<p>It wasn’t anything personal, and, I guess in my attempt to agree with you I kind of minsinterpreted your post.</p>
<p>The way your post came across in first reading it is that you were saying that you didn’t think you could fit 19MB of RAM into a personal computer, and I was saying that you could fit MUCH more than 19MB of RAM into your personal computer. </p>
<p>When I re-read it, it seems that you were saying that 19MB of RAM is too little. It all makes sense the second time over.</p>
<p>Forgive me for the misunderstanding. I’ll be more careful next time before I respond. However, for all intents and purposes - I do agree with you. I’ve never heard of a computer with that little memory and that small of a hard drive - I would go nuts!</p>
<p>In reference to post #84: I remember when my dad had a dot matrix printer (which was also about 10 years ago). Even though it wasn’t THAT long ago, the technology seems so ancient now that we have inkjet and laser printers - which took my dad sooooo long to buy. I don’t think my dad finally got an inkjet until I was in high school already!</p>
<p>Gospy, I saw it in exactly the opposite way, asking how you could have so little resources :). No worries.</p>
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<p>Things have changed yet again. 40GB is barely sufficient anymore for most people. I have a 40GB hard drive on this powerbook I’m using, and I have to delete things all the time to make room for newer documents and music and video. We have a new 20" iMac G5 that we got about a month ago and it came standard with 250GB! It seems like WAY too much now, but I’m sure in a couple years it won’t even be enough and I’ll be backing things up to my iPods again.</p>
<p>I think I’m more agreeing with you and adding to your point, but I thought I’d mention it nonetheless.</p>
<p>I know. I want one sooooooo bad. They have that “Front Row” program where you can control your computer with a remote, and not to mention that they’re absolutely beautiful. Every time I pass one in the electronics store I have to stop and play with it like I’ve never seen it before!</p>
<p>I know what you mean about the 40GB, though. My first computer had a 20GB hard drive, and I couldn’t even download 300 MP3’s without having to burn them onto a CD and delete them from my hard drive - it was crazy! Luckily Apple (if you buy it online) gives you the option of adding more…</p>
<p>250GB seems like alot now, but if you’re doing music and video, then you’ll find a way to use it all. I’ll be investing in a PowerMac with the Cinema Display soon so that I can run Final Cut Studio and Logic without overloading my system. I wanted a Mac Mini because of the size, but you can only get 100GB max on it and I’m like…I think if I try to do audio and video it might blow up!</p>
<p>But anyway…you’re right. Things change all the time, people find new ways to use things. Computers are getting more powerful with each new model. I would love to see what they could come out with next…</p>
<p>BTW - anybody know anything about running Virtual PC for Macintosh? Anyone had any experience with it and can tell me how it runs?</p>
<p>Anyone seen the new laptops with write-on screens?</p>
<p>they gave them to all the teachers at my school, my math teacher takes all the notes for us and puts them on blackboard.</p>
<p>It’s like an e-binder 
if anyone knows what they are called/who makes them/where i can find one it would be greatly appreciated</p>
<p>YoungCub: Tablet PCs…</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.studenttabletpc.com/[/url]”>http://www.studenttabletpc.com/</a>
<a href=“Tablet PC Buzz - Tablet Computer News”>Tablet PC Buzz - Tablet Computer News;
<p>Makes: Lenovo/IBM, Toshiba, Gateway, HP, Fujitsu, etc.</p>
<p>My nephew loves his Toshiba.</p>
<p>Thanks! :)</p>
<p>I love having a laptop - my school is wireless everywhere, so I use my computer outside of my room all the time. I don’t really use it to take notes, but I’ll take it to the library, or just to friends’ rooms when we’re hanging out.</p>
<p>The best tablet is definitely the gateway one. It is the only one which has a normal looking monitor. All the other screens look faded out.</p>
<p>NEVER get a Gateway… The computers work as if the factory workers went out to a dump behind the factor and tried to put everything together to make a computer…</p>
<p>My first computer had only 8kb of ram and I think a 20 mb harddrive… Thinking back on that, XP would not run on that and if it did 20 mb was WAY too small of a harddrive space…</p>
<p>“NEVER get a Gateway… The computers work as if the factory workers went out to a dump behind the factor and tried to put everything together to make a computer…”</p>
<p>Really? I’ve known many people with gateways, none have had problems.</p>
<p>For desktops they are poor computers in general, but for notebooks they are the worst computers for performance/reliability… As I said it as if their factory workers go out back to their trash and try to create a computer out of those parts…
I work at the Information Tech. Services center at my school and Gateways come in with the worst problems and very frequently from failed components in new computers to blue screens of death…
For notebooks:
- Apple
- IBM (but not for multimedia)
- Dell</p>
<p>I wouldn’t get a tablet anyway. I’d probably go for a sony, because their screens look so much better than most other companies. Their batteries cost a fortune though :/</p>
<p>Sony’s come in close after dell… They are sleek laptops and their screens are extremely nice</p>
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<p>My first computer had a 256 megabyte hard drive! Haha it was a Mac back when they weren’t made as well, still running system 7.6. But of course we weren’t capable of putting anything on it because our 14.4K modem was quite slow and the internet was somewhat new…</p>
<p>Sounds like you’ll be having fun with Final Cut, and yeah, good call about the extra hard drive space for video work, that’s what eats it up the most.</p>
<p>Oh, and I have no first hand experience with it, but Virtual PC is supposedly really really slow (it’s an emulator- they’re all like that), don’t pay money for it unless you are using it for a VPN or network syncing or things of that sort that aren’t processor-intensive. This summer, when Steve Jobs starts unveiling the Intel Macintosh line, is when an emulator will finally be useful. It’s called Rosetta, run by WINE, and he claims it is going to be almost as quick as the actual operating system, which means macs can run any Windows app no problem (not that you’d really want to, Windows applications are UGLY ). But it’ll work, and it’ll be great.</p>
<p>Just a tip.</p>
<p>I second the DON’T BUY GATEWAYS post. Ours had a bad sound card, motherboard, hard drive, and speakers in under a year of owning it.</p>