<p>I have about $2,000 to spend on a new laptop</p>
<p>So I was wondering what you guys think I should get (New MacBook Pro or custom build a Laptop from Dell or something)</p>
<p>And here is what I'll be using my laptop for:
- generally for assignments (microsoft office)
- watching some movies
- I dont play video games
- Im a bio major, so no art/pictures for me</p>
<p>So help me decide please, thanks! :)</p>
<p>Having had both (Dell and Macbook), I have to say that there are good things about both, and bad things about both. So if just depends on what kind of platform you like. One thing to consider is that pc's all have vista now. And Vista is not happy.</p>
<p>I've been a loyal Mac user since my freshman year of college...just bought a macbook a few months ago. My dad just bought a Dell XPS with Vista...it just seems so cluttered and the Internet Explorer browser toolbar is very cluttered.</p>
<p>The Mac is OS is stable and very user friendly...pay the extra money and upgrade to 4GB of RAM.</p>
<p>well nothing against macs,
i like macs for student reasons the most
the new os has been hacked through, crashed, more "unhappy" then the vista sp1, unlike os tiger, the previous one, which has never ever crashed or hacked into during tests
windows as more media capability in terms of watching movies, streaming, ripping, etc
macs have more media capabilities in terms of art, pictures/graphics, music producing, creating things</p>
<p>pc's are about a grand cheaper
mac's look nicer</p>
<p>all in all, go get a t400, or a macbookpro, the two best notebooks out there</p>
<p>get the cheapest lappy and load ubuntu on it ^_^</p>
<p>once i'm done with this ppt assignment i'm going to go for ubuntu (installing this weekend)</p>
<p>Just because you have 2grand to spend on one doesn't mean you should. For what you stated you need it for, a $2000 laptop is way overkill.</p>
<p>What is the most popluar computer here apple or pc?</p>
<p>I'd say it's an even mix of Windows PCs and Macs...just make sure you follow Cornell's minimum computer requirements.</p>
<p>Hermanns, financial aid is letting me use my scholarship to purchase a $2,000 laptop max.
So I think I'd rather use all of it :)</p>
<p>Just so you know...the new MacbookPro starts at $1,899 (that's with the education discount). I really like my Macbook...very fast. </p>
<p>These are the prices for the Cornell store: The</a> Technology Connection (Apple)</p>
<p>People are calling the most recent iteration of the macbook pro a rip-off.</p>
<p>As said before, for your needs, it doesn't look like you need a macbook pro. I have a macbook pro that came out before the new one, and I feel like I've wasted my money. I don't play games on it, haven't bothered to do dual boot yet, and the games I want to play don't work on Mac OS X. Console games are better anyway.</p>
<p>Either go with a Macbook or look for something other than apple.</p>
<p>$2000 would be enough for me to buy a really good laptop and build a kickass desktop with a giant monitor. If that money can only be spent on computers, buy a desktop and laptop if they will permit you to.</p>
<p>Definitely go Mac! It's so great for everything, especially as someone earlier said, student devices. My iCalendar is great, music is all on my laptop, with things like iVideo/Photo and the more-fun-than-AIM ichat, it really is great.</p>
<p>Besides that, you can even put windows on Macs now to run them adjacent. I got the Microsoft Office package for Macs and it's really nifty.</p>
<p>Just buy a $899 14"1 laptop PC from HP. I don't see the value of buying a $2000 laptop. I mean I own a laptop PC with 3GB RAM and 2.0 GHz and about 300 GB of storage. I don't see anything wrong with my affordable yet functional laptop.</p>
<p>But don't buy one from Dell (its laptops are ugly).</p>
<p>$2000 on a laptop is pretty close to ridiculous if you ask me : P </p>
<p>From what you've said, it really doesn't look like you need a high-end computer. Despite what people might say, Macs are not really all that special (although powerful), and the advantages they offer over PCs are largely superficial. You can get a more than good enough PC for under $1000, more bang for the buck. Functions like iCalendar have (superior) equivalents in Google, and there's a lot of free stuff floating around on the internet. If you don't like Windows, you could always use alternatives like Linux. </p>
<p>With $2000 you could even easily build a high-performance desktop and get a decent ~$700 laptop to carry around, which, in my opinion, is much more efficient way of spending money.</p>
<p>It seems the most basic MacBook (under $1000! or the next one up if you want a little more space) would meet your needs. I have a previous-generation one and it served me very well during the last work-filled months of undergrad. </p>
<p>With $2000, you could even get a desktop plus an EeePC or something like that :) Portability is awesome.</p>
<p>I've never had a Mac, but i've had a dell xps ( 1 year). I'd definitely never get another dell laptop again haha, take the Mac.</p>