Sometimes I really want to imitate a cave turtle.

Nov 29, 2007 12:51

I saw one at the National Zoo when Pua and I visited. Granted the name might be wrong but it is his mode of defense I want to emmulate. When sensing danger he finds a convient hole and sticks his head into it followed by as much of his body as he can ( Read more... )

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jesselowe November 29 2007, 21:28:54 UTC
MacBooks are good; for your needs, you can probably get by with the baseline model at $1100-ish. If you want to go really cheap, look at the ASUS EEE, a teeny little (7" screen) machine that runs Linux, about $400. Of course, not too much more can get you a Dell Inspiron 1501.

Of the three, I would recommend the MacBook, mostly because it will probably age best. (And I have a soft spot for Macs, too.)

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jesselowe November 29 2007, 21:30:45 UTC
Oh, almost forgot. For the info on the old machine, if you can't get it fixed, you can yank the hard drive out and turn it into a USB external hard drive. The appropriate parts run about $15-20 at CompUSA and it's probably a do-it-yourself thing if you don't care about fixing the old computer.

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mer_lowe November 30 2007, 19:14:17 UTC
Thanks for the tips. I don't think the 7" will work for me. This is also my only way to watch movies. I am also leaning towards the Mac but I kinda feel like the desire to have a dashboard isn't really a good enough reason to buy one. And I am concerned about retrieving all the data I want save on the old one. I think I am going to go talk to someone in a Mac store on Monday. I don't want to deal will all the other people on a Sunday during the Christmas season.

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faeriemere November 29 2007, 22:03:50 UTC
I'm really sorry about your computer. That stinks. You know I love my Macbook, but I have to note that while Macs are considerably less susceptible to small things like viruses and spyware, when they break, they break big. PCs get all the small, annoying problems; Macs only seem to have problems of catastrophic proportions.

Not to scare you off Macs or anything....

Anyway, as long as you take good care of it and leave lots of free RAM for it to run on and follow the instructions carefully when doing automatic updates, it should be fine.

About turning your old drive into a USB drive for info retrieval, I'm not absolutely certain, but compatibility may be a consideration. I'm not sure a Mac will read a PC hard drive.

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lowe4 December 3 2007, 10:17:29 UTC
serious bummer!I don't know anything about mac's but I have had good luck with dell so far. I have a desktop, about eight months old and I love this thing. Grandpa has had two(I think) laptops from them and he has liked them both. I think he has the 17 series and the picture quality is very good for movies. His old one lasted him five or six years and finaly broke because it had enough dirt in it to farm with. He took it to work with him to figure wiring schematics. The down side that I can see is windows Vista, I think it sucks. And they are still working bugs out of it. But mostly it sucks. Mom has it on her e-beast and she is not compatible with it at all.
Good luck

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lowe4 December 3 2007, 19:37:34 UTC
Thanks for the info about Dells. So far all the information I have been getting is on Macs. Mac people are very connected to thier little machines.

Did you get my email last week?

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coventry_lance December 4 2007, 04:55:27 UTC
Totally unrelated, but could I please have your address? You can e-mail me at elikowal@gmail.com, if that works best. Or however. Thanks!

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