mllelaurel | (no subject)

So. My laptop is a piece of shit. It won't play DVDs anymore. It freezes up when faced with anything more challenging than a pageful of plain text. It won't defrag completely.

Conclusion? I need to buy a new computer stat, before I can't access the internet anymore and thus am rendered incapable of buying said new computer.

Discuss.

Basically, I need to know what laptops qualify as non-shitty. My bare qualifications are: DVD player/burner; able to connect to the internet; more harddrive space than my current 55 gigs.

I'm none-too-fond of the Mac interface, but if I'm given assurances that Macs are less likely to break the hell down, it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.

Cheap would be nice, as I need an external harddrive and/or an ipod to move all my junk onto. I can't think of another way to transfer it from one harddrive to another, but then I'm no expert.

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I will say that both my iBook and Akycha's have had one major hard drive breakdown each, the first ones that either of us have ever had with Macs (like I said, I've been using Macs since 1988, when I worked in the Apple/Mac classroom at college, and I bought my first doorstop used in 1992 or so, and she's been using them since she inherited

sepdet's doorstop somewhere around '93 or so). I've owned my machine since, um, 2002 or 2003, and Akycha's is a 2004 model. The breakdowns happened around the same age in both of them, and they were both entirely covered by standard AppleCare, so make sure you get AppleCare! And an external hard drive for backups will save your hide in the possibility of the breakdown.

Yeah, tech help is invaluable. I just hope they're good at explaining things to total newbs like me.