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On laptops, and resisting the 360
I actually bought myself a gamecube just because of smashbros.
That said i think the game cost me £30 and the console cost me £20 so its exactly the same comparison, but still i do understand the desire to get a console for a game :P
Nightmares
> It's like saying an Acorn looks just so much like... well, an Acorn.
Yes, but I like how Acorns look.
> And a Pee Cee has fewer buttons than an Acorn, so how could you use a Pee Cee?
Because you're running a two-button OS on the PC. However, running RISCOS on a PC laptop requires three mouse buttons, which means third button emulation, and that is a bit of a pain. As I regularly have to run Windows applications on my laptop, I figured I'd miss buttons 2 and 3 too much, and external mice aren't convenient on trains.
> I'd have thought as a pro Web designer, though, you'd have a Mac to test on, if not develop on.
I'm primarily a web developer rather than designer, and the majority of my work has been server-side, so my cross-platform compatibility needs up to now have been met by remote testing services. Now I'm increasingly doing client-side scripting I will need to get a mac, but that won't need to be portable. I decided it would be best to treat them as two separate issues, and get the most appropriate solution for each problem.
> Personal choice, tight-fistedness or budget constraints are the only valid excuses in this case.
Budget-wise, I will be spending more getting a dell and a mac mini than I would if I'd bought a macbook.
Personal choice did play a factor. The design of the macbook does nothing for me, and I just don't like what being a mac owner does to someone. It's epitomised in the Mac vs PC adverts; mac extremists always seem so smug and incapable of accepting that there is a time when a mac isn't the most appropriate solution. My opinion has always been that the focus of Apple is design over substance, that they're overpriced and under-featured.
Despite those preconceptions, I was impressed with the macbook, and did give it serious consideration. However, when faced with two similarly spec'd and priced machines, it came down to what I needed it for and how I'd be using it: a Windows laptop for regular use of Windows applications, and a cheap mac that can sit in the corner turned off until the rare occasion that I need it.
I don't think "It's big" and "It's expensive" is the same as saying "It's got too few buttons".
On that note, the last MBP I looked at didn't have a delete key. Backspace yes, delete nooo. :)
All silly reasons not to get a Mac. It's like saying an Acorn looks just so much like... well, an Acorn. And a Pee Cee has fewer buttons than an Acorn, so how could you use a Pee Cee? Another silly reason. Personal choice, tight-fistedness or budget constraints are the only valid excuses in this case. I'd have thought as a pro Web designer, though, you'd have a Mac to test on, if not develop on. I, for one, would see that as essential.
True, the macbook is about 1cm bigger in each dimension, although roughly the same weight. I personally dislike the design of the macbook - I know a lot of people say they're very pretty and stuff, but it's just personal taste, and they do look very... mac. And they only have one mouse button.
Ok, how about "Because they're huge"?
Actually, a macbook is a roughly similar spec and price. I'll be honest - I have wondered if I did the right thing getting the Dell. But never mind - this does the job. Or at least it will once I've had the speakers fixed and have reformatted and installed XP.
Clearly that is not the case. It is just something to say when you can't think of a *real* reason.
Because they cost the earth?
Coca-Cola, that's what you have to be careful of. It rots your teeth. But why didn't you buy a Mac? Macs run Windows and MacOS and Linux, they are fast and look great and the battery lfie is impressive.
Perhaps... but this was less than half what I would have spent on a thinkpad. And it's not all bad - I can play San Andreas! Hurrah, train journeys will never be the same.
Tsk.
Should have bought a thinkpad.
Seriously though Dell, it's April 2nd now
You're starting to scare me now...
Sometimes my own weirdness distresses me, Jody. If I could swap my sultana for a grape, then as sure as there isn't butter on the sun, then I would.
It's not working out, it's falling out :(
Oh? How's that working out for you?
Sometimes, I use coconut oil on my hair.
Mildly embarrassing moment #56732 in the life of me
I know, there is that! On the scale of 'looking through the window' embarrassment it only scores a 'mild' - I remember a particularly amusing story about a boy at school, a free period, the upstairs common room and someone on a ladder outside cleaning the windows.
Not if Creeky's hands were anywhere within arm's length of anything at all!
it could have been worse, you could have been in the nuddy