MACBOOK (not pro) or a DELL

UVMLauren
Wed, 09 Aug 2006 07:39:02 +0000

My small-business Compaq machine is absolutely indestructible. The HP/Compaq consumer machines may be sucky but their small business machines are excellent. However, I’m going mac. I prefer the operating system hands down (it’s so much more flexible than windows) and the size and features right now are hard to beat.

That said, I am in the camp of dells are crap. I have never seen a dell consumer laptop survive a year without being so outdated or even broken that it’s almost unusable. My father has been in computers since they were the size of rooms and he’s forbidden me from ever buying a dell. Dell lovers must not know anything other than dell if they love them so much.

Bottom line- you get what you pay for. The cheaper you go, the crappier the computer, and dells are cheap. Cheaply made, cheaply configured. The $1,099 macbook is a much better deal right now. Spend more money for a computer that will last you longer.