[Kurtis2112]

I may be a little biased, but i would be against buying the apple.

It is quite obvious the huge price increase in apple products. The dell has the better graphics card, processor, more ram and larger hard drive. it seems like a pretty straight forward decision.

I am a gamer, which probably sways my judgement. Apple's operating system is nice, and it is straight forward and works nearly 100% of the time. Windows is forever plagued with issues.

However, there is lots you can do with windows, and the problems come from letting anyone create an exe file and anyone can run it.

Apples software has a lot of limitations that way, however it decreases the issues, because of apple approved programs will be run on their software.

I would say that if you are doing any form of music recording or creation, photo editing, or video editing, the mac is the way to go. It has lots of programs and free features that are built in.

Windows is the better choice for anything else. As I said above you are getting a far more powerful computer hardware wise from the dell, for the same price as the mac.

The only question I would also look at is the screen resolution. With the 2gig graphics card I would imagine the dell has a 1920x1080 res, at least. However if it is a new macbook pro you have the retina display.

In the end it really depends on what you want to do with it. I would pick the windows laptop.

 

[Kurtis2112]

Ya apple makes good quality products. I cannot deny that! I am just a fan of PC

Windows 7 is a good OS.

That was another thing that I thought of after.

Your compatibility with class mates would be higher with a PC most likely. Unless everyone has macs that is. But most peoples flash drives will be formatted to NTFS which is not compatible with Mac, without a reader program. It gets to be a pain to share things between systems. Probably better to have a system that is more widely used.

And as your program is using primarily windows and windows based programs, who wants the stress of having to find mac compatibility. It would most likely end up that you would boot camp you mac and have windows too, if you ended up getting a mac.

Good luck with your buy!

 

[Kurtis2112]

I have to agree with you again.

I have a friend with an old MacBook, probably 6 years old now, and he has had to do hardly anything to it and it still runs fine.

It really helps when you only can install certain things on it and it saves you from trying to install some risky business haha.

I am not a huge fan of laptops, I have a desktop that I always use, which is fairly powerful to game and do the majority of my reddit browsing etc.

I just have my grandmas old dell inspiron 6000 that i take to class. It is old and slow, but all i need it to do it type notes and it works for that.

 

[Kurtis2112]

you can do that on PC lol.....

exactly.

They make those features for both platforms.

I agree with the above statement about upgrades and fixing. PC's are easy to unscrew the back to add more ram, or a different HDD or Solid State.

 

[Kurtis2112]

I agree. I mildly mention it on my first post.

I prefer my desktop computer. First built it in 2007, and didn't do any changes with it until this year when I lost my mother board. I then decided to upgrade everything, except my graphics card. Too much money. The other parts I got second hand off my cousin.

Im running a:

AMD Phenom II 6 Core
8GB Ram
ATI Radeon HD 4890
Primary Drive: 500 GB Western Digital
Secondary: 2 - 1TB Seagates
Case: NZXT Blackline

I like it a lot.

However, if he is looking for a one computer option that is portable to take to classes and what not that building your own really isn't an option.