<p>Im a PC, and I love Bill and Melinda Gates. but here a poll. </p>
<p>Macbook (Apple)
or
Lenovo ThinkPad(Industry standard in PC's)</p>
<p>lets see if Duke students are actually thankful to the Gates and Frenchs</p>
<p>Def Thinkpad, those little buggers are built like tanks. My X61 has survived many a scrape in my backpack being thrown around. And the keyboard is just…delicious to type on (yeah can’t think of a better word).</p>
<p>yea, im desperately seraching for an x201 tab yet extremely satisfied with my T400.</p>
<p>Was your x61 a multitouch tab? i wonder if multitouch is actually worth the money to get it.</p>
<p>I had a thinkpad a few years ago that melted near the heat vent… =.=</p>
<p>…Now I have a macbook pro and haven’t looked back</p>
<p>That melting might just be an anomaly. Especially if you never clean out your cooling vents and heat sink fans/ducts. Dust can build up which impedes airflow and reduces fan efficiency, trapping heat in the vents. I had that happen to my fan (because I never clean it either) and it got all gunked up and started making weird noises and heating up. Good thing I had a 3 year warranty. </p>
<p>As for macbooks, a year or two ago they had a huge problem with poor quality nVidia graphics chips that would overheat, fail, or melt necessitated a whole mobo replacement. To be fair though, that happened to a lot of laptops using nVidia chips…</p>
<p>Harvardwaitlist: no, mine was a regular X61 not the tablet version. I wanted a full power CPU instead of the LV kind that they had in the tablets. Plus I didn’t see the need to shell out a couple hundred more for a tablet at the time.</p>
<p>Get a Lenovo Thinkpad or anything else with full 3-4 year warranty (either next business day or that OIT warranty).</p>
<p>Neither, in my opinion. But if you had to choose, ThinkPad, for its value that is >>>>>>>> MacBook Pro.
Duke isn’t really a liberal arts school, so I’m guessing most people would say ThinkPad as well.</p>
<p>If you walk into a pubpol or polisci class, you’ll find that 75% of the people have macbook pros.</p>
<p>^^ that actually says very little given the computing needs of pubpol/polsci classes.</p>
<p>I have EGR friends that have macs and they get by just fine.
I have friends in trinity with windows.
Either way you go it really doesn’t matter, it’s all about your preference since the campus is pretty much completely cross compatible.
And to add on the warranty thing, buy your computer at the Duke store, their warranty covers pretty much any damage, even accidental.</p>
<p>Lenovo FTW.</p>