[Novalug] favorite new laptops?

[John Franklin]

I have to agree with Mark, but without the laugh track.  I've had my  
parents get Macs for years for both home and home business use because  
it saves me a ton of time on tech support.  Initially, it was to avoid  
having to debug config.sys, autoexec.bat and who-know-what.ini  
issues.  That I use Macs all the time myself helps, but even with the  
really weird issues, I've been able to get them to fix it over the  
phone.  (Example, powers on, but won't boot. Answer: hold down command- 
option-P-R until you've heard the boot sound three times.)

The low-end Mac book (which is still faster than my desktop at work!)  
is $1,100.  $1,350 with AppleCare.  For a Mac Pro, I wouldn't bother  
with AppleCare.  For a laptop, I'd get it.  How much is it worth to  
you to say, "Take it to the Genius Bar and tell them the wireless is  
fouled up.  They'll fix it."  I don't know where your sister is, but I  
know there is an Apple store in Oklahoma City and in Tulsa.

jf

On Nov 1, 2007, at 12:16 AM, Mark Smith wrote:

> just works?  get a mac.  hahaha.
>
> otherwise, i've had pretty good luck with ubunto.
>
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 11:29:04PM -0400, Julia Christianson wrote:
>> Has anyone bought a laptop lately that "just works"?  I need to buy
>> something to send to my sister in Oklahoma ... she's never run Linux
>> for any period of time, but she knows she doesn't want Windows ;-).
>> I'll probably put CentOS on it even though I know ubuntu would
>> probably be better because (a) I'll be her sole support and I don't
>> know ubuntu and (b) I know CentOS will be supported for some
>> reasonable period of time.
>>
>> Thanks for any suggestions.  Oh, and price is of course always a
>> factor but not the primary consideration.  (Resistance to failure and
>> an old-folks-readable screen are the primary considerations, with  
>> wifi
>> that won't break when a new kernel is installed coming in a close  
>> third.)
>>
>> -- Julia
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