Laptops suck...

Kendall9991 · Jul 6, 2014

Just to fix the charger port I had to literally take it ALL the way apart.

Kendall9991 · Jul 6, 2014

And tapatalk doesn't want to post my photo. I'd use my laptop but....it's pretty much in a bowl until tomorrow...

snerd · Jul 6, 2014

I'm so tired of Windows being so slow on my Acer laptop, that tonight I installed Ubuntu to dual boot! It was a pain-in-the-azz because of the UEFI setup, but I got 'ir done and this is like a new laptop using Ubuntu and Chromium browser!!

Kendall9991 · Jul 6, 2014

I've heard good things about Linux. My brother is a programmer so he could walk me through it. My laptop has vista and I hate it. I grew up with windows 98 and xp. 7 isn't terrible though.

IMO vista and 8 were their worst ideas yet.

snerd · Jul 6, 2014

yep, i hear ya wanna stay with the odd numbered releases!

Overread · Jul 6, 2014

Windows 8 actually runs really really well for me - the ONLY thing they got wrong was taking the start menu away (and its still in the windows folder its just not "used" on the front desktop anymore). Otherwise its a solid stable OS.

As for laptops I've noticed that the power connection point and the power adaptors have gotten weak. I don't know why but that whole area of the modern laptop is where they seem to fail the most - my brothers and sisters have had trouble with that area or the adaptor for power breaking/wearing out

IzzieK · Jul 6, 2014

Well...bless your soul! at least you know how to take it apart and fix it. Not many do...

sashbar · Jul 6, 2014

I have a 3,5 y.o. lenovo laptop with i7-2620M CPU and 8Gb RAM running Win7 , and it is faster than a new MacBook Pro a had for a week for work.

407370 · Jul 6, 2014

I have a laptop for work as I need to be portable but at home I would never even consider one.

I have a big Gigabyte case with:

128Gb SSD
2 X 2 Tb hard drives
overclocked I7 THIRD GEN
Water cooling directly on CPU heat sink
2 extra cooling fans
drive bay slot with combined card reader / USB slots

and enough space to park a truck and set up camp inside the case (slight exaggeration)

I render a lot of 3D graphics but no heat issues at all.

I love big computer cases.

table1349 · Jul 6, 2014

Once you go Mac, you never go back.

It is amazing the little things Apple does to make life simple, like a magnetically attached power plug that just detaches instead of being plugged in and then pulled out if the cord gets pulled. Never gets damaged, never needs replacing or fixing.

manaheim · Jul 6, 2014

Apple makes some beautiful hardware. Too bad they restrict you into doing everything their way.

snerd · Jul 6, 2014

manaheim said:
Apple makes some beautiful hardware. Too bad they restrict you into doing everything their way.

My thoughts as well. And you pay a huge $premium$ for having to do it their way! Although, I gotta admit, they are pretty and slicker than snot!!

Victo · Jul 6, 2014

I tried to go Mac and went back to Win7.

Kendall9991 · Jul 6, 2014

My fiance's family are apple people. I just can't get use to it.

We've owned windows since 97` so its Almost built in to me. We use to have an apple. Computer was in the monitor and the only colors were black and green.

I do however somewhat like the simplicity of them.

sonicbuffalo · Jul 6, 2014

I just bought a awesome ASUS laptop. The best screen resolution I saw on either a MAC or a PC. Doesn't hurt that it's got a 2 gb video card installed on it. Hate Windows 8 though.