You were probably shown the 13" Macbook AirIt's a smart bit of kit, but you can save a fair bit by going for a Mac mini if you don't need portability and already have a decent screen. That's what I use... lack of a built in optical drive is the only downside I've found.
Once you go mac you'll never go back!
You can get a hell of alot of Laptop for £400.00 with the lastest Windows,,why spend more?
http://www.apple.com/uk/creativity-apps/mac/If you are "friends" with a student go to an apple store and ask about educational discounts.
Quote from: evesdad on 21 June 2014, 09:02:24 pmhttp://www.apple.com/uk/creativity-apps/mac/If you are "friends" with a student go to an apple store and ask about educational discounts.CHRISTOOOOOOOOO!!! evesdad, I don't think I need convincing that it's a good system, but have to be sure at that price.
I can not recommend you to avoid laptops enough. Unless absolutely necessary to work on the road.
Personally I don't see what the worry is with Microsoft ceasing support for XP, all their updates ever used to do was cause things that did work properly to stop working.
I've a desktop machine that I use for video editing and a laptop that I use for everything else. Both running XP and I doubt that will change.
I can use the laptop in the living room (as I am now), in the garden and I can put it in my rucksack when I go away and use it wherever I am. I've never been a great fan of anything with an i in front of it's name as they will only work with something else with an i in front of it's name. I was once given an iPod but found that to load any music onto it I had to install iTunes on my computer which then took a huge amount of disk space and tried to take over everything to do with music files. With any other bog standard mp3 player, I can just copy files over from the laptop and they play.Windows 8 now integrates calendars, email settings and address book online so does nothing that a Mac can. However, to give the other side of the coin, a friend who is a complete computer numpty went over to a Mac After his son persuaded him that he might find it easier. Most of the time he does but still has problems with things he used to be able to do on a pc that he can't do or aren't as straightforward. He's also changed his phone for an iPhone as he had all sorts of problems getting his previous Samsung Galaxy to work with the Mac and hates it.As said, you'll pay a lot more for a Mac than an equivalent spec Windows machine but as Apple have their own shops you are likely to get better support than from the ignorant box shifters that work in PC World. It just depends if you need it. You've obviously got on fine with a Windows machine up until now, so what makes you think you'll need it in the future?
I-phone is a nice, practical thing. I don't have it, but a friend who is always on the road uses it a lot - for business as well as fun.
Quote from: nick crisp on 21 June 2014, 09:18:39 pmQuote from: evesdad on 21 June 2014, 09:02:24 pmhttp://www.apple.com/uk/creativity-apps/mac/If you are "friends" with a student go to an apple store and ask about educational discounts.CHRISTOOOOOOOOO!!! evesdad, I don't think I need convincing that it's a good system, but have to be sure at that price.Ha, you'll have to start being nice to me now! Apple's main problem (which I also faced when I tried Linux) is the lack of compatability. Unfortunately for Apple users, Windows is pretty much a global standard, most software is written for it. Sure, you can get emulators, but if you have to do that, why not get the original from the word go? I personally don't like Apples. I don't like the layout, I don't like their prices, I don't like the fact that 90% of Apple devotees have hipster beards, berets, and drink wheatgrass and carrot juice (sorry evesdad! ).
Quote from: Slaninar on 22 June 2014, 11:50:02 amI-phone is a nice, practical thing. I don't have it, but a friend who is always on the road uses it a lot - for business as well as fun.The biggest problem I know of with a number of people with the iPhone is using it as it's name suggests, as a phone. It appears that each generation seems to get worse, it is a small iPad that will work as a phone if you ask it nicely and the audio quality is pretty poor too. I've always used Nokia as they make phones and most of the network infrastructure too, so with my latest have gone down the Windows phone route. Not because I wanted a Windows phone but because I wanted a Nokia. Since getting it, it does everything an iPhone, or for that matter, an Android device, can do, sometimes better, sometimes not as well, but it will do it. Not only that but my wife tried it and found it so much more intuitive to use than her Samsung Android phone, she changed to one too. Within 2 days she'd sent me a picture message, something she'd never been able to work out how to do in the past!Microsoft released an update against Conficker in 2008 so while it may have been a problem 5 years ago isn't any more. Third party security software will deal with it anyway.True, if you buy a new machine it is unlikely you will be able to run XP on it but if you are keeping an old one then you can stick with what you have and what you know. My point is that just because MS are no longer supporting XP doesn't mean you have to go out and buy a new machine with a supported operating system immediately. What can the new operating systems do that XP can't? Probably quite a lot of things but are they things you need or want to do?