Kuci is getting a laptop - recommendations

[Asher]

Someone I know gets the employee discount on IBM products.

IBM ThinkPads are the only serious laptops.

iBooks and PowerBooks are shoddy pieces of crap made by Acer and branded Apple. You may as well save a few grand and buy an Acer brand.

There are three fundamental problems with the Apple laptops:
1) One mouse button on the touchpad -- what the ****
2) Lack of a trackpoint -- what the **** -- trackpoint is way, way more efficient and faster and easier once you figure out how to use it and have an IQ > 90
3) It runs MacOS X, one of the most inefficiently resource-hogging OSes out there. Every time you maximize with a fancy genie-in-a-bottle effect, you may as well subtract 1 minute from your battery life.

[Asher]

By the way, my ThinkPad 1.5GHz (from 2003) is roughly three times as fast as my friend's PowerBook (from 2004).

It also lasts three times as long on a full battery charge.

His is made out of thin aluminum and mine is made out of titanium composite.

They cost the same.

[Agathon]

As if you needed any more proof that Asher was full of ****. He makes me look non-partisan.

[Asher]

If you're going to assert that one of my comments was false, you'll need to argue it or disprove it.

Saying I'm "full of sh*t" without so much as an attempt to retort makes you look like a partisan tw*t.

I'm telling it like it is.

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Spiffor
Prepare your cash then. 2,000 will buy you an acceptable game rig, that will be useless in two to three years, at most.

It it's all the money you saved since you're 12, prepare to save the same amount posthaste, and be prepared to regularily lose all your monies on computers until you really work.

No, I've only been saving up (for a laptop) since last summer. But I still don't like to spend a lot of money at once

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Asher
Someone I know gets the employee discount on IBM products.

IBM ThinkPads are the only serious laptops.

As I mentioned earlier, I saw an HP pavilion that actually looked better... though it cost $4-500 more than the ThinkPad I was looking at

OTOH, that ThinkPad had the aforementioned 32MB video card.

And the apple debate is entirely academic, given that this has to be a windows/linux laptop.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
No, I've only been saving up (for a laptop) since last summer. But I still don't like to spend a lot of money at once

Then you won't have a laptop fit for games. Unless things have radically changed in the last 2.5 years. You seem to have plenty of room at home, so don't hesitate to build yourself a desktop that is a gaming rig. It's much cheaper and much more satisfying.

And I continue to say that you'll find a solid working laptop for agreeable price at Toshiba's

[Asher]

HP laptops are crap. They'll fail on you in no time.

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


It's because I'm going to be using it for my computer courses, so I need a Windows/Linux environment, not a Mac one. I'm going to install a dual boot linux OS.

You can install Linux on a Mac.

[Nostromo]

And I continue to say that you'll find a solid working laptop for agreeable price at Toshiba's

I second that.

[Agathon]

If you're going to assert that one of my comments was false, you'll need to argue it or disprove it.

Saying I'm "full of sh*t" without so much as an attempt to retort makes you look like a partisan tw*t.

I'm telling it like it is.

If you're going to assert that my comment that you're full of **** (generally speaking) was false, you'll need to do more than that.

Everyone knows that you're a cyclops.

[Asher]

The people who know what they're talking about can admit that I'm objective.

Just heavily opinionated about it.

[Verto]

Regular PC/laptops are just not attractive

[Asher]

You shouldn't be having sex with your computer.

[Verto]

Why not? Mute the speakers and it can't say no.