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Within the last 5 weeks, I lost the shop's Dell (2000) laptop and my personal MacBook (2004).
The Dell died a violent death, I swung a piece of angle iron into the saw, but apparently, I was a little closer to the Dell, than I thought, WHACK!!, it fell 4 feet and didn't bounce. I used it as a reader, the cd-rom was dead, almost all of the ports didn't work, the screen was bright and the keyboard was great used it to process pictures for work. Alas, the fall was fatal.
The MacBook was used constantly, but had been acting up, but the hard drive finally failed, at 13-14 years old, according to Apple, it not viable to fix. So that too is now gone.
So this weekend, it time to start looking for a new laptop. I have a Windows 7 based NetBook (junk) and a few iPads, but the iPads are great readers, but fall short in a lot of the areas, I need to work in.
I'm not sure which way to go, I'd like another MacBook, but Apple seems very proud of them. Most of the Windows based laptops, I've seen are either bargain basement units from unheard of manufacturers or quirky, bundle packages, that about 85% of the "features", I would never use or want.
I'd prefer to buy the laptop locally, but that may not be a viable option.
The Dell died a violent death, I swung a piece of angle iron into the saw, but apparently, I was a little closer to the Dell, than I thought, WHACK!!, it fell 4 feet and didn't bounce. I used it as a reader, the cd-rom was dead, almost all of the ports didn't work, the screen was bright and the keyboard was great used it to process pictures for work. Alas, the fall was fatal.
The MacBook was used constantly, but had been acting up, but the hard drive finally failed, at 13-14 years old, according to Apple, it not viable to fix. So that too is now gone.
So this weekend, it time to start looking for a new laptop. I have a Windows 7 based NetBook (junk) and a few iPads, but the iPads are great readers, but fall short in a lot of the areas, I need to work in.
I'm not sure which way to go, I'd like another MacBook, but Apple seems very proud of them. Most of the Windows based laptops, I've seen are either bargain basement units from unheard of manufacturers or quirky, bundle packages, that about 85% of the "features", I would never use or want.
I'd prefer to buy the laptop locally, but that may not be a viable option.