Laptops?, Warning: There may be italics involved. Options

[Twilight Wandere...]

Okay, so here's the deal. I finally got my computer back. Wonderfuls, right? Not really. It's still not fixed, and it still has that god awful Vista still on it.

Well, you found an XP CD while going through your stuff the other day! Why not just use that, right? No. Your father reminds you it's the boot leg copy he gave you that killed your computer thus requiring you to get Vista in the first place.

Well crud. You don't know what to do. He suggests going to a site that sounds extremely phony and looking to see how much Windows 7 is so you can upgrade you computer. But oh. It may not actually be Vista that's the problem, so you'd lose all your data for nothing.

Okay dad. You're really on my poop list right now.

So mom says. Why spend your money fixing something that is broken? Just buy a new laptop. You won't want a desktop when you go off to college in a year anyway.

Oh yeah, I'm doing that, aren't I? Thanks mom. You're not on my poop list.

So anyway. The entire point of that little story was to introduce y'all to why I'm looking at laptops. It's not just for show, I'd like to ask you tech savvy people about what you think is best. ;D

What I'm planning to run on it that I know of are GIMP and Sims 3 with one little expansion pack, maybe more if I get any.

And pictures. Loads and loads of pictures.

This here is my only candidate thus far. I want a laptop basically that can run those applications above and still have a little memory left, if possible. As for money issues, I'll be saving up for this, and my mom said she'll back me up $100.

So, questions, comments, suggestions, etc. I can has them here please.

[Oscar]

It doesn't really get slow, no. Sometimes you could notice a lag, if something is loading and you are quickly switching, but it's nothing annoying!


Yeah! There's a GIMP Mac version.

The Mac is simple! There's not a bunch of little steps involved in order to do things. I remember there being an article about how it had like 10 steps on how to connect to the wifi at McDonalds for a PC versus the two steps it required for a Mac. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalaexdee.gif)



Ugh, sounds like my PC in its final days. The wifi wouldn't work and I had to SMASH the button that turned it on in order to receive wifi. I wasted so much energy on that thing. =/





I say the next best thing to do is go to an Apple Store (I love those places) and try out the Macs. You don't need to go with the intention of buying one, but just try them out. And you gotta LOVE the trackpad. You can do multiple finger gestures to zoom in, zoom out, scroll, click, wipe up or change to different programs. All with the slide of a finger. Literally.