What's a good laptop brand?

[bazookajoe]

Originally Posted by T.G

The way I read slim's post is that he's providing some reasons to not buy Apple notebooks.

No different than pasting an article or report about any other brand really.

I'm sure the op knows how to research the pros and cons of pc and mac laptops online. I'd guess the intent of the thread was to get some feedback from members from their actual experience.

Originally Posted by Totemic

The blog touched on four points, irrespective of whether it's valid or not...

Again, this information is freely available online.

slimboli was merely quoting some irrelevant opinion rather than giving a personal recommendation from actual experience—a fairly common occurrence whenever an apple product is mentioned but still tiresome imo...

[bobarian]

Originally Posted by bazookajoe

I'm sure the op knows how to research the pros and cons of pc and mac laptops online. I'd guess the intent of the thread was to get some feedback from members from their actual experience.

The OP asked for suggestions, I see nothing about requesting those suggestions be based solely upon personal experience.

Again, this information is freely available online.


slimboli was merely quoting some irrelevant opinion rather than giving a personal recommendation from actual experience—a fairly common occurrence whenever an apple product is mentioned but still tiresome imo...

How is slimboli's opinion any more irrelevant than your contributions to this thread?

As totemic summarized the choice comes down to a few basic things.

1. cost.
2. productivity.
3. standards.
4. product longevity.

What if the OP wants to play games? Perhaps the new Elder Scrolls? A Mac would make a nice paperweight in this case.

[shilala]

Originally Posted by bobarian

What if the OP wants to play games? Perhaps the new Elder Scrolls? A Mac would make a nice paperweight in this case.

I doubt he was doing a whole lot of fragging on a Dell Mini, Bob.

[T.G]

Originally Posted by bazookajoe

I'm sure the op knows how to research the pros and cons of pc and mac laptops online. I'd guess the intent of the thread was to get some feedback from members from their actual experience.



Again, this information is freely available online.

slimboli was merely quoting some irrelevant opinion rather than giving a personal recommendation from actual experience—a fairly common occurrence whenever an apple product is mentioned but still tiresome imo...

There is another possibility, and that is that maybe Slim happens to share those same opinions and experiences and quoted the passage for personal reasons rather than writing them out in his own words.

Granted, if such is the situation, then it really should have been prefaced with an explanation of why it was pasted.