Good school laptop

Just some history my degree is comp sci IT security analyst, and that's my main day job. Hence why fixing them is a hobby on the side ;)

No offense, but anyone recommending a mac book is just insane. PCs are the way to go, because you don't need to replace the entire machine because it got dropped. Ram goes out on a PC replace it. Processor went bad (as if!) replace it. Want to upgrade? Do it. Mac books are so incompatible and have no room to upgrade or do anything fun with. Besides, grab a pair of horn rimmed glasses and you'll achieve the hipster feel that a mac book would give you. You can also get a super computer pc for the price of a mac book, that in itself is more than adequate reason.

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I actually do quite a bit of non-hipster stuff with my MacBook. There's a reason why they're popular.

How come I went through so many PCs within three years when I've had the same MacBook since my senior year of college?

Macs are so overpriced that it's absurd; all you're buying is a brand name, just like Alienware.

My step-sister got her laptop at the same time I did back in 2009. Both of us purchased ours from best buy and both laptops had roughly the same specs (I think mine is a bit better). Mine was $1100, her's was about $3000. Mine is an ASUS, and runs just as fine as the day I bought it.

With the newer macs, if you have any form of issue, you're not going to be able to work on it. You either buy a new one, or send it to apple for repairs. The only way you're going to be able to work on it, is if you have knowledge of how to use a soldering gun. However, that's a great way to void your warranty if it'ss still under such. Not to mention, a number of programs won't work on macs, and if you're using it for college, you want something that's going to be compatable as much as possible.

If you're wanting a good laptop, I recommend either toshiba or asus. Tosiba laptops are tough enough to survive being peed on by a goat (said laptop is currently six years old now and runs fine, if a bit slow), and asus allows you to buy extra parts from them (harddrive caddies, fans, etc).

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I actually do quite a bit of non-hipster stuff with my MacBook. There's a reason why they're popular.

How come I went through so many PCs within three years when I've had the same MacBook since my senior year of college?

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Probably because you're not taking care of it. I've had my current laptop since July of 2009, no reformatting, runs great. I had my desktop before that for 6 years; it had to be reformatted once due to the harddrive being screwed up thanks to a power surge, it had an issue with the second ram slot dying on the motherboard, but there's no way of knowing if that was a defect or because of the power surge. My mom has a toshiba that's six years old that runs fine. My step-dad has one of a similar age that runs fine. My grandma had a dell that has ran great for the past decade, and a toshiba that's still running great that's four years old.

For all the people saying you went through so many PC's in X amount of time; what the hell were you doing with them lol?! Now that i think back, i actually got my HP closer to 3 years ago, not 2. I have not had a single problem with it. My brother even dropped it like 3 feet onto the hardwood floor once. What sorta problems were you guys having that made you go through multiple laptops? Where did you buy it from?

EDIT: I also have a Dell Desktop PC that ive had for probably 7 or 8 years now without any problems really.

I've had my HP tower for almost 7 years now, no hardware REPLACEMENT. The only upgrading I've done is a 512mb graphics upgrade. It runs better than my wife's handmedown $800 Asus.

The Acer laptop, like I mentioned, is 2 and we've only had to send it in for a "hard drive failure" which turned out to be a software issue.

PCs are so flexible its almost mind blowing what you can do.

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That laptop didn't leave my desk in my dorm. Seriously. It had papers and some graphic design work done on it, but that was it. I had a desktop that I did hardcore photo editing on (company is out of business.... it was one of those TV ad computers that came with 198320974032974 pieces of software).

Bought that laptop from my school. They made us all buy the same one to get on the network until they found out how to let everyone else on the market. As soon as they did that, I moved over to a Mac (plus my warranty expired).

I knew damn well what was the problem with my laptop, but Dell wouldn't replace it. Motherboards melted, harddrives melted, cases melted....

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Bought that laptop from my school. They made us all buy the same one to get on the network until they found out how to let everyone else on the market. .

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My guess is they gave your school a good deal on low quality laptops. My dad thought itd be a brilliant idea to buy a desktop off of home shopping network. It crapped out after a week and he's been having problems with it ever since.

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Originally Posted by schrammalot

That laptop didn't leave my desk in my dorm. Seriously. It had papers and some graphic design work done on it, but that was it. I had a desktop that I did hardcore photo editing on (company is out of business.... it was one of those TV ad computers that came with 198320974032974 pieces of software).

Bought that laptop from my school. They made us all buy the same one to get on the network until they found out how to let everyone else on the market. As soon as they did that, I moved over to a Mac (plus my warranty expired).

I knew damn well what was the problem with my laptop, but Dell wouldn't replace it. Motherboards melted, harddrives melted, cases melted....

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..Did you ever open it up to clean it, or did you just let it sit there with all sorts of crap in it?

I use a can of air and a microfiber cloth, cleaning out my heatsink, fans, and then cleaning off my mobo and graphics cards. Some times my power supply too, but it stays clean longer.

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