Personally, unless you have completely become a Mac addict, which would be sad considering I remember our excitement at Best Buy when Win95 and OS/2 Warp came out....
I'd recommend an Acer. I've got a Acer 5672, built in Wi-Fi (fun in the airport, and found someone had a network running on my flight to Denver...) also, built in Bluetooth (hello, random stranger's cell phone...) plus, it's a Dual Core proc, with 2 gigs of RAM (more than my PC at work... I could put out the whole paper from this little thing...) Oh, it was like 1 grand and came with FREE Tivo! (filled with Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, and Food Network shows)
Just my $0.02, but ya know...
Dylan
· 2 years ago
You just pull the guts out of there, put them in here, plug your straw in there, and suck out the good bits! Mmmmm, chocolate milk.
Kate
· 2 years ago
Thanks Jason. It would be nice to get away with only $1k in replacement costs, but I have to have a mac for work. Our whole research group works exclusively on Macs now, as OSX is just a pretty face on the standard Unix OS. Thus all of our stinky old command-line Unix-based compilers and such will still work on these shiny new machines.
The new powerbooks (aka Macbook Pros) also have built in WiFi and bluetooth (as did my old one), 2 gigs of Ram, Dual Core Intel processors now, and 2 gigs of RAM. Plus built in webcams, iLife, and all the fun Mac toys. They just cost twice or three times as much.
And completely off subject... we've got two Tivos at home, why would we need another one? :) Heros is like my favorite show right now too! DAMN! Peter Petrelli gets HOT in the future!! Mark is a huge fan of Dinner Impossible and Alton Brown, and Battlestar Galactica. I can't keep up with those space soap-opras though. "Who's sleeping with who? Who's kid is that? Isn't she actually a robot? You mean, that lady that he's sleeping with now doesn't even exist? Ok, I'm confused." It's way worse than Days of our Lives. I just can't keep up.
Kate
· 2 years ago
Heh heh, Dylan, that's so gross. You have no idea how much dog hair was also inside the computer when I cracked it open. This shot is after I cleaned it up the best I could. :)
I've gotten it to a point where it will power up, spin up the HD and the DVD burner, and then sit there quietly. It doesn't actually load the OS. I need some kind of system disk to do a device evaluation boot, but I don't know where mine is. I'm going to pull the logic board out and soak it in rubbing alcohol for a while tonight too. See if that does anything.
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I'd recommend an Acer. I've got a Acer 5672, built in Wi-Fi (fun in the airport, and found someone had a network running on my flight to Denver...) also, built in Bluetooth (hello, random stranger's cell phone...) plus, it's a Dual Core proc, with 2 gigs of RAM (more than my PC at work... I could put out the whole paper from this little thing...) Oh, it was like 1 grand and came with FREE Tivo! (filled with Heroes, Battlestar Galactica, and Food Network shows)
Just my $0.02, but ya know...
The new powerbooks (aka Macbook Pros) also have built in WiFi and bluetooth (as did my old one), 2 gigs of Ram, Dual Core Intel processors now, and 2 gigs of RAM. Plus built in webcams, iLife, and all the fun Mac toys. They just cost twice or three times as much.
And completely off subject... we've got two Tivos at home, why would we need another one? :) Heros is like my favorite show right now too! DAMN! Peter Petrelli gets HOT in the future!! Mark is a huge fan of Dinner Impossible and Alton Brown, and Battlestar Galactica. I can't keep up with those space soap-opras though. "Who's sleeping with who? Who's kid is that? Isn't she actually a robot? You mean, that lady that he's sleeping with now doesn't even exist? Ok, I'm confused." It's way worse than Days of our Lives. I just can't keep up.
I've gotten it to a point where it will power up, spin up the HD and the DVD burner, and then sit there quietly. It doesn't actually load the OS. I need some kind of system disk to do a device evaluation boot, but I don't know where mine is. I'm going to pull the logic board out and soak it in rubbing alcohol for a while tonight too. See if that does anything.