<p>Wow you guys are speaking a language that have never touch this school o.o</p>
<p>For the guy who suggest Dell Latitudes, it should be noted that Dell has always been known to use second-hand or refurbished parts. They aren’t reliable and are considered at the bottom rung of quality computers.</p>
<p>@palier I beg to differ. I still have my computer of 10+ years still barely working. It’s a Dell. My college I’ll be attending support Dell, HP, and Mac computer with emphasis on Dell. </p>
<p>I may not be getting a Dell inspirozon though. I am leaning toward Lenovo laptops.</p>
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<p>It’s wonderful your computer has lasted, but you are indeed the exception.</p>
<p>To be honest it did crash (there was a virus) but that was like 4 years ago it can still run at a decent pace but not for heavy activity. I wouldn’t be using it if it wasn’t for google chrome. </p>
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<p>Likely the crash might of been the W32 Blaster Worm that went around… wait 4 years? No the Blaster Worm came out in like 2006 or 2007…</p>
<p>Malware Byes Anti Malware and Spybot Search and Destroy as well as Avast free Antivirus will be the best options for you. Stay as far away from McAfee as possible.</p>
<p>O.o what’s wrong with mcafree?</p>
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<p>Other than the beast of things it installs on you and the amount of control it puts on your computer, as well as the fact you have to ask it to do things rather than doing things yourself? It’s like User Account Control x 10. I’ve never found it useful either.</p>
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<p>You’re confusing the use of second-hand/refurbbed parts in warranty repairs with new machines. All notebook manufacturers…including Apple does the former. </p>
<p>The latter, if discovered, would give the consumer legal grounds to sue for fraud as if its proven that there are second-hand/refurbbed parts, they cannot legally be sold as new as that would constitute fraud against the consumer. </p>
<p>It’s a reason why even a notebook computer/PC which has never been used, but was returned because the buyer changed their mind is almost always sold as “refurbished”, not new.</p>
<p>No, I’m not confusing anything. The networks around computers and technology as well as hardware have always hated Dell generally for low-cost manufactured products, poor customer service, and terrible hardware. And as for finding out about the parts? How will they compete with a massive slew of lawyers? Most people don’t sue because they feel they have no chance.</p>
<p>When Alienware was purchased by Dell, not only did their prices go up, but the quality of their products drastically decreased.</p>
<p>What you’re describing has much more to do with Dell’s cutting many corners in the manufacturing/QC processes and not using second-hand/refurbbed parts in “new” machines. </p>
<p>The infamous problems with blown capacitors around 2004-5 is a good illustration of this. No need to explain the corner cutting by using second-hand/refurbbed parts when Dell and some other OEMs are cutting so many corners that their new stuff…especially their budget/consumer lines have many failure incidents after a short period of nominal/normal usage.</p>
<p>I also have not encountered the rapid hardware failures to the remotely same extent on Dell corporate-line Latitudes/XPSes as I have on their Inspirons/Vostros. That’s not to say they don’t happen…just the frequency of incidents is far less.</p>
<p>Moreover, even OEMs I regard more highly like Lenovo and Apple have had various issues due to QC/hardware design issues. </p>
<p>For instance, some older intel Macs had serious issues with video processors/chipsets failing due to inadequate soldering and cooling issues. </p>
<p>Have a White intel Imac picked up gratis off CL with this known hardware issue so I made it a point to use smc fan control to spin up the cooling fans to ensure the CPU/video chipsets are cooled reasonably even at the price of more background noise.</p>
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Cobrat - Kind of you to to think I might have ‘forgotten’ this (read install incorrectly) and point it out. I may not be a techno-guru however my DH is CTO for his organization and is pretty darn capable in this area. Thanks though.</p>
<p>Macbook Pros here & husband’s company just switched to them, which he is very happy about because for the matematical modeling he does, Windows has always been a pib.</p>
<p>Actually, my most recent one is a MacBook Air. I love how light it is. There is no place to insert DVDs but they make an attachment that plugs into a port for about $100. It works just fine.</p>
<p>Can you view bluray on Mac?</p>
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<p>If a techie’s dominant or sole computing experiences has been on Windows/Unix based PCs, they may not know their way around a Mac at first. Saw this with plenty of engineering/CS majors/graduates who were strongly anti-Mac or never used one experience these sorts of issues at first. </p>
<p>However, it has been my observation that once someone takes the time to learn the basics…it’s easier for Windows/Unix users to transition to Mac OSX than the other way around.</p>
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<p>Assuming one has a blu-ray drive or can somehow load blu-ray movie images on the hard drive/SSD, I don’t see why not.</p>
<p>Wow, I never thought I’d employ the ‘ignore’ feature on cc… </p>
<p>That’s it Cobrat, I’m done with your stories of friends/relatives and how they relate to every single thread. To push a point insisting someones spouse doesn’t know what they are doing…as CTO. Really necessary?! Sure, you know better kiddo.</p>
<p>One advantage that might be worth going the Windows route is gaining familiarity and mastery of the OS for when you enter the working world.</p>
<p>Chances are you will work somewhere that uses all Windows machines and you need to be well versed in the entire MS Office Suite (even engineers have to use Outlook, Word and Powerpoint) in order to collaborate well with your coworkers.</p>
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<p>I asked my IT husband this question. The answer is no. You cannot view BluRay on a Mac.</p>
<p>How does alienware stand aside from gaming</p>
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