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[Gentle Tiger]

Right now I don't have a laptop. I was using the one that I had through my last job. I am no longer there, so no more laptop.

I would use the laptop for things like the newsletters, a lot of photo work for the newsletters, program books, flyers, music lists (I love music), movies, editing videos, of course the creations of various docs (lectures, class materials for what I teach, spreadsheets, etc) and of course games. I would also need the Windows component because of what I need to provide to those at the church.

I found the laptops that I have used in the past to be frustrating and slow. That's why I am thinking about the MacBook Pro.

I would also need the windows side because of testing that I would be doing if I chose not to sit at the PC.

Thanks for asking.

[Linus]

Originally Posted by Gentle Tiger

Right now I don't have a laptop. I was using the one that I had through my last job. I am no longer there, so no more laptop.

I would use the laptop for things like the newsletters, a lot of photo work for the newsletters, program books, flyers, music lists (I love music), movies, editing videos, of course the creations of various docs (lectures, class materials for what I teach, spreadsheets, etc) and of course games. I would also need the Windows component because of what I need to provide to those at the church.

I found the laptops that I have used in the past to be frustrating and slow. That's why I am thinking about the MacBook Pro.

I would also need the windows side because of testing that I would be doing if I chose not to sit at the PC.

Thanks for asking.

Then the Mac would work well and you can use my company's product, Fusion, to run Windows in a virtual machine so you can do testing while working on the newsletter. A refurb might work well so that you can max the memory so you can do both at the same time. My current MacBook Pro is a company issued one but I'd definitely get my own that is the same or better model.

[Sachita]

My first PC was an Apple and then a windows 3.1 AT PC. lol

I have spent tons of money on PC's because i always needed it for work, however these days I buy PC's I know that if they break down I can throw them away and buy another. I keep everything on an external drive and I have my own server, hosted, for almost 10 years at the same hosting company.

I recently bought a 500 acer pc running windows 7. It's lightweight and runs great. I stopped spending big money on PC's.

[ButchEire]

I have several PC's, including laptops but always work on my MacBook Pro 17". The resolution is high quality and doesn't lead to eyestrain. I run Windows XP on Parallels but honestly, don't use it much at all. Apple has plenty of desktop publishing software. I use InDesign and Illustrator for any publishing, on the Mac. On my iPad, I use Numbers and Pages.

As far as "breaking" computers, it's literally impossible unless you choose to dunk it in water,regardless of the manufacturer. Well,ok, also if you open emails from people you don't know but I don't do that. I still have a very capable Gateway 2.2GHz naive Windows machine from 1999 and the only thing i've had to replace was the fan. The thing still runs and has a 300GB hard drive, plus a 500GB external.

Originally Posted by Gentle Tiger

Right now I don't have a laptop. I was using the one that I had through my last job. I am no longer there, so no more laptop.

I would use the laptop for things like the newsletters, a lot of photo work for the newsletters, program books, flyers, music lists (I love music), movies, editing videos, of course the creations of various docs (lectures, class materials for what I teach, spreadsheets, etc) and of course games. I would also need the Windows component because of what I need to provide to those at the church.

I found the laptops that I have used in the past to be frustrating and slow. That's why I am thinking about the MacBook Pro.

I would also need the windows side because of testing that I would be doing if I chose not to sit at the PC.

Thanks for asking.