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 Jun 8 2006, 08:14 PM
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I was raised on the dairy, BITCH! Group: Members Posts: 3,080 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Cedar Park Member No.: 49  |
it's easier to just get an external mouse for your laptop if you're going with the macbook/pro
or you can always hold control down and click the button to get the right click features -------------------- "Ah, y'know it's funny, these people they go to sleep, they think everything's fine, everything's good. They wake up the next day and they're on fire."
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Jun 8 2006, 08:23 PM
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 Group: Members Posts: 706 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Lubbock, TX Member No.: 20 |
I like the IBM Thinkpads. I got a T60 for my graduation and its pretty cool. I'm sure it could run games pretty well, but I don't usually play anymore.
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Jun 8 2006, 08:26 PM
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ibm doesn't make thinkpads anymore, they sold their thinkpad business off to the chinese company lenovo
you could get a lenovo thinkpad but they're bugged by the chinese gov (the u.s. gov refused to renew their thinkpad contract with lenovo after ibm sold off the thinkpad business) |
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Jun 8 2006, 09:02 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 706 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Lubbock, TX Member No.: 20 |
aren't the new apple macbooks made in china? ban apple too?
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Jun 8 2006, 09:07 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 5,275 Joined: 22-February 06 Member No.: 2 |
if they're manufactured by a company run by the communist gov like lenovo
the u.s. gov refused to buy lenovo pcs, i'm just passing the word along |
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Jun 9 2006, 12:12 AM
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 Retired Funk-bringer Group: Moderators Posts: 2,656 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Dallas Member No.: 14 |
the us government has done a lot of stupid stuff though.
drop in a bucket. -------------------- WAIT. I'm not finished.
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Jun 10 2006, 12:02 AM
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No day but today... Group: Members Posts: 773 Joined: 22-February 06 Member No.: 5 |
actually with the whole right click thing they are starting to make them now on apples. yes its still one button but if you push the button towards the right end of it then its just like right clicking. stupid why they dont just do two since thats one of the biggest complaints people have about apples.
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Jun 10 2006, 12:28 AM
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Group: Admin Posts: 6,906 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9 |
"Right-clicking" is easy with a Mac... you just hold the freakin' button down to bring up the kind of context menus you'd get with a two-button mouse. Or at least that's how it worked on the Macs I've used...
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Jun 10 2006, 09:28 AM
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I was raised on the dairy, BITCH! Group: Members Posts: 3,080 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Cedar Park Member No.: 49 |
or you get a two button mouse...........................................................................
.... -------------------- "Ah, y'know it's funny, these people they go to sleep, they think everything's fine, everything's good. They wake up the next day and they're on fire."
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Jun 10 2006, 02:25 PM
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 Group: Moderators Posts: 2,558 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Seoul, South Korea Member No.: 28 |
ok let's get back to cannonball's laptop and off stupid apple mice.
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Jun 10 2006, 06:04 PM
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 DEATH TO ....something? Group: Members Posts: 5,618 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Parker, CO Member No.: 55 |
I've been REALLY happy with my HP Pavillion 4000 series ... I've had it for a little over a year now and it hasn't missed a beat since I've owned it. I use it for everything from homework to media stuff....about the only thing it sucks for is 3D games...
Does well enough with AutoDesk Inventor though ... -------------------- I r Ur Gawd!
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Jun 10 2006, 06:14 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 5,275 Joined: 22-February 06 Member No.: 2 |
i have a compaq and this thing really takes a beating
i got it 4 years ago and i haven't even reinstalled windows once |
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Jun 12 2006, 09:10 AM
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someone brought up macbooks...
I'm considering one of those too. my buddy who's an engineer said his was the shit. I'm concerned with the wifi thing...as of yet have not messed with it. ok so witha pc platform he told me that you have to configure something each time you go to a different hotspot, whereas with the mac it interacts with it without dicking around with it. so for the pc wifi people...is it really that much of a hassle? |
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Jun 12 2006, 09:22 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 5,275 Joined: 22-February 06 Member No.: 2 |
its not that big of a hassle anymore on the pc, but the mac wifi is still easier
you're not gonna be able to run any of your pc programs though and mac only has shitty programs the laptops themselves are actually pretty decent if you can get one with a big enough screen without going bankrupt... do NOT get a 12 inch screen, i would go for 15 |
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Jun 12 2006, 11:21 AM
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DEATH TO ....something? Group: Members Posts: 5,618 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Parker, CO Member No.: 55 |
the mac is "so easy" it's hard.
it's fucking like computing with duplo blocks or some shit. it's so "easy" you can't fucking make anything out of them, heh 
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