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Re: Best Laptop for 1k. School oreinted/ [Re: Mojo]
    #8117029 - 03/07/08 05:36 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

it will have a seethru menu bar at teh top. and a application called time machine. im sure if you go back they will give it to you. along with teh new ilife if they didnt already. did they give you a student discount or because it was already discounted they didnt. congrats on your purchase.

might want to d/l parallels or vmware fushion if you want to run other OS's. shouldnt but if you want to.

dill:

but after upgrading the battery for around 60-70 bucks your comp isnt any cheaper or you did it right from teh get go. not to mention a bit slower proc. and you dont havea dvd burner.
and here is the link about vista on a mac. you can fallow it back to original article http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/irony/macbook-pro-is-the-fastest-windows-vista-notebook-317060.php


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Re: Best Laptop for 1k. School oreinted/ [Re: DieCommie]
    #8117039 - 03/07/08 05:38 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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I paid 700 for my Lenovo T61. It has excellent battery life (3-4 hrs), dual core 2.0ghz T300 processor, 2 GB RAM, discrete graphics w/128MB, 7200RPM Harddrive, N Network Adapter, 1440x900 resolution. It pwns. Fuck a mac. They are over priced crap.

Also fuck buying from the school or over priced brick and mortar stores. New Egg and Ebay FTW.




And im sure the Lenovo is great for a computer bought at an online garage sale. It’s also great for when you want to put a big sign in front of you when you’re studying in the library that says "I’m still a Virgin, pussy passes me by"

Lenovos are the ugliest computers I’ve ever seen. And you dont even know what kind of graphics card you have in it.

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Re: Best Laptop for 1k. School oreinted/ [Re: the man]
    #8117061 - 03/07/08 05:45 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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the man said:
it will have a seethru menu bar at teh top. and a application called time machine. im sure if you go back they will give it to you. along with teh new ilife if they didnt already. did they give you a student discount or because it was already discounted they didnt. congrats on your purchase.

might want to d/l parallels or vmware fushion if you want to run other OS's. shouldnt but if you want to.
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Is there no way to tell from outside the case? 



I’m apprehensive to open it until im satisfied I got a decent deal on it.  This is the older model so they were getting rid of these for $1499 and I got a $100 discount making it 1399.  That brings it down into ibook territory so I thought it was a good deal but maybe not...  This is my first mac so I don’t know shit about the software…




Its getting hard not to open it.... :crazy2:

After Student discount Leopard is only $69.00...  I cant imagine they'd just give it to me.

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Re: Best Laptop for 1k. School oreinted/ [Re: Mojo]
    #8117090 - 03/07/08 05:50 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

I dont know what graphics card I have in it?  Of course I do, I downloaded the drivers for it...

Personally, I think they are the best looking of any laptop.  I have had numerous compliments on it since I got it.  The other day one of my classmates was staring at it and said ' That laptop is beautiful ' :lol:  I was a little freaky, but also funny and cool.

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Re: Best Laptop for 1k. School oreinted/ [Re: DieCommie]
    #8117108 - 03/07/08 05:57 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

no it will be inside teh box. tehy usually do if you just bought it it shoudl come with teh newest version. buying it is just for peopel who want to upgrade. i am sure they did. and if not. you can jsut download it anyway. or jsut ask them or email apple.


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Re: Best Laptop for 1k. School oreinted/ [Re: the man]
    #8117187 - 03/07/08 06:22 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Ok, i think im going to go ahead and open it up.

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Re: Best Laptop for 1k. School oreinted/ [Re: DieCommie]
    #8119670 - 03/08/08 12:34 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

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I dont know what graphics card I have in it?  Of course I do, I downloaded the drivers for it...




I didn't have to download any graphics drivers at all. :smirk:  Leopard even configured my network itself, connected to both of the shared computers in my house automatically.

I didn't even have to download drivers when i installed XP through bootcamp.

Wow, i just realized this thing spell checks inside the shroomery dialogue box. Thats pretty fly too... :rockon:

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Re: Best Laptop for 1k. School oreinted/ [Re: Mojo]
    #8121302 - 03/08/08 09:05 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

so million dollar question. how do you like it? and how does it feel to use something that just works. haha go ahead plug in a random printer.


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Re: Best Laptop for 1k. School oreinted/ [Re: the man]
    #8121478 - 03/08/08 10:06 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

I love it man. After having some time to play with it a little bit, it becomes quite clear where the extra money goes into these systems.
Its just the little details like the power plug, the back lit keyboard, and the remote control, and even the accelerometer that they put into these things. I was having a little fun with iAlert and Mac liquid earlier.
Right now I have MS Office 2008 installed and its completely compatible with my PC version of office which is old (like 2003). I haven’t installed anything else yet, but I downloaded iLife. Have you heard of it? Think I should install it?

I think I already said this but this thing is smoking fast. Tears through XP like nothing. Probably won’t ever put vista on it. I’m hoping to do 90% of my tasks through OS 10.5, and save the windows partition for stubborn programs that I cant get for mac yet.
Oh and one more thing, probably one of the nicest features I noticed. All of the Help menu’s, and specifically the boot camp installation manual is so damn clear and concise. Its like someone sat down and spent a week on that short manual alone. This is a nice feature when learning a new system. Esp. considering how most manuals these days are seemingly written by someone that can barley speak English.
And like you said, shit just fucking works on this thing. There basically is no set up.
I’m going to stop because I could go on and on. But so far, im giving it a big thumbs up.

Thanks for all your help man.

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Re: Best Laptop for 1k. School oreinted/ [Re: Mojo]
    #8121727 - 03/08/08 11:09 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

yea Office is nice to have running on OSX especially for school. although keynote (appel version of powerpoint) is really nice. and office for mac is better then windows haha sorta funny.

ilife comes free with you mac and is included on teh install disc. its like under other software if you put it in.

and ya id put it in. iphoto garageband imovie. cool apps theres def better but will take care of your pictures adn what not. pretty organized and easy to use for simple stuff.

maybe get vmware fusion. it allows you to run windows and osx at teh same time so you dont have to reboot!

well im glad you are very happy with your purchase. i know the feeling. not only does it work but its impressive. cant say ive had that with any PC.

also one of my favorite things about osx is its search feature in the finder(any window with apps or docs or whatever) it is like warp speed compared to windows. and take no longer then 1-2 seconds to search for anything on your whole comp. little bit longer when you search over your network but still faster then windows. hahah. no more days of waiting 10 minutes for it to return a search for something.

oh and you have a year to get apple care warranty. might wanna pic that up. there not stingy about fixing things. my friends nephew put coins in his slot drive, and they replaced it for him. not sure if he took them out. but you get my point.


some programs
mactheripper
toast titanium
virtuedesktop. cool smack the computer and it changes desktops.


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Re: Best Laptop for 1k. School oreinted/ [Re: the man]
    #8121771 - 03/08/08 11:17 PM (16 years, 2 months ago)

Ok thanks man.  I noticed that I do already have iLife on it.  I guess I downloaded it for nothing.  I’m on Spring Break right now so I have 1 week to learn about mac until I have to concentrate on other things.

Oh yea, and I noticed how fast the search is already (I meant to bring it up earlier).  It’s almost as thought its real time as you type it in... :lol:

I’m just blown away by the whole system.  And even when running windows.  It loads CAD and MATLAB 7.4 quicker than my damn desktop!  Smokin system for sure.

Alright im done... :grin:

Thanks again man.

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