Re: Compter recommendations



"Shawn Hirn" <srhi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:srhi-0E7C18.21465507072008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <xKwck.13380$xZ.9538@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Al K" <alkessler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I am ready to purchase a new laptop computer. I would be interested to
hear
about other people preferance between the PCs and Apple systems and why.
I
would also like opinions on screen size for editing and other
considerations.

Go to the nearest Apple store or Apple reseller and check out a MacBook
Pro. Why? Macs just work.

until they don't, and then you never actually know why the just don't. Mac
shops have the "Genius Bar" for a reason, you have to be one to figure out
why the damn thing just stopped working :-)
Having said that, if someone was to give me a G5, I wouldn't complain :-)

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Don Hirschberg


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