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[Triggersmob]

Well, I hope Mac's aren't too much more expensive, my Daughter wants one for her birthday next month.
Any recommendation on what laptop I should buy her? She will mainly use if at Uni.

[markn]

I beg to differ mate, unless you are talking about playing around with the OS/messing with the H/W.

If you are a developer , you will always ask for a Mac for development and they don't touch windows machines ... Linux is not a bad OS for developers either ...

You must work in different development circles to me.  The only 'developers' I know that use Mac's are Rails or *insert groovy javascript library name* zealots.

[markn]

"Damage"??

You do realise that the basic hardware is pretty much exactly the same, right? Other than the custom firmware that makes a Mac a Mac, its all bog standard components, in a much better engineered package.

That's about all Mac's have going for them.  Engineering.

[JeffH]

I can see these declarations of faith going on for ever.
I just hope nobody now starts a thread on which is the best mobile phone! [I am happy with mine -I don't have one.]

[markn]

I can see these declarations of faith going on for ever.
I just hope nobody now starts a thread on which is the best mobile phone! [I am happy with mine -I don't have one.]

I'd love to not have one. I have no idea how to make calls with it and it mostly gets used to watch Netflix :angel:

[Fulvio]

[I am happy with mine -I don't have one.]

Hehe. I have my old and crappy Nokia, and that will do until it breaks. Then I'll get something similar, or go back to one of the 3310/3315/3330's I have lying about.

I feel absolutely zero need to have an iPhone or one of those CrapDroid things. I have an iPod Touch which does everything an iPhone would, except make phone calls and eat me out of house and home in network fees. $60 a year for the Nokia and zero for WiFi suits me just fine.

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Trig: It would depend entirely on what she wants to do with it. My personal preference leans towards a 15" MBP, but they're heavy. An Air weighs nothing, but is somewhat limited as a result. which is fine if you have something else to network it to, not so fine if its standalone.

Check out the used/refurb options. And look at something like a Mac Mini to go with the laptop. Hang it off your TV in the loungeroom, and you can even use it to watch movies as well as act as a file server or when she needs more grunt.

[ausproofs]

I beg to differ mate, unless you are talking about playing around with the OS/messing with the H/W.

If you are a developer , you will always ask for a Mac for development and they don't touch windows machines ... Linux is not a bad OS for developers either ...

You must work in different development circles to me.  The only 'developers' I know that use Mac's are Rails or *insert groovy javascript library name* zealots.

May be Mark... I don't work with mainframe developers alike.. mostly with guys work on API, integration, cloud solutions... Apigee, WM, Java, .net etc etc... Each to their own..  I was not a Apple fan until yesterday.. however after being a Windows user for close to 18 years, I like what I see with Mac.

Well, I hope Mac's aren't too much more expensive, my Daughter wants one for her birthday next month.
Any recommendation on what laptop I should buy her? She will mainly use if at Uni.

Get your daughter to play with a Mac and see what she thinks about it. Apple has a discount scheme for UNI kids... Other option is to wait for a sale and get one from JB or similar..$1000 or slightly under you can get a Macbook air 11 ... All depends on what she studies as well... If it is a business degree , you don't need a pro... Pros are expensive...

[Goldseeker]

All one can buy is one that is RIGHT for you, is affordable and be easily operated.

if it breaks down , as they all do, can it be repaired?

it is all up to individual choices.

[runway]

HP computer,Samsung S5 all good

[Triggersmob]

Well, I hope Mac's aren't too much more expensive, my Daughter wants one for her birthday next month.
Any recommendation on what laptop I should buy her? She will mainly use if at Uni.

Get your daughter to play with a Mac and see what she thinks about it. Apple has a discount scheme for UNI kids... Other option is to wait for a sale and get one from JB or similar..$1000 or slightly under you can get a Macbook air 11 ... All depends on what she studies as well... If it is a business degree , you don't need a pro... Pros are expensive...

Thanks for the replies. She has been using Mac since she has been at UWA, as that's all they have in the library there. She is a big fan of them now and she also has an iphone and ipad, I think she like the idea of them all being linked through icloud (I think that's what they call it).

[Fulvio]

I think she like the idea of them all being linked through icloud

Yeeeeahhhh... ummm... not so sure about this one.

I use icloud as my main email address now, because it doesn't have the limitations of other services. It doesn't give you piddly limits like ISP accounts, is portable, and doesn't fail bigtime like all the Microsoft services (Hotmail, Live, MSN, etc) do. And it doesn't spy on you and inject ads like Google. Well, not yet anyway.

And obviously I use a lot of the other icloud features as well.

But I've turned off syncing, and most automated uploads. Frankly, I have better uses for my bandwidth, piddly as our aussie caps are. And then there is Apple's penchant for having everything in one place. Sorry, but that just doesn't work in real life. I don't want my coin collecting stuff mixed in with my various clubs and associations, my family pics or my porn collection (yeah, I'm kidding about the last one, but you get the idea). :diablo:

People have been caught out by stuff being beamed back to home base that was inappropriate. Imagine some mate borrows your phone and takes a dikpik as a joke, and it pops up on the screen at home while your daughter is doing her homework. Not funny.

Actually, this whole thing is running parallel to discussions I'm having in the Dogecoin community about wallets, and my belief that people should be in total control of their own resources. Way too many people put blind trust in some machine or bit of software without actually understanding what its doing under the hood, and this almost always leads to eventual disaster. Its a bit like blindly buying 'brand X' pages for your coins, and not knowing or understanding what they're made of. :angel:

[Triggersmob]

Yeah, it's all over my head. Give me an old fashioned phone and a basic laptop and I'm happy as a pig in poo.

[Nevol]

I just hope nobody now starts a thread on which is the best mobile phone! [I am happy with mine -I don't have one.]

Wow! I have the same model as you Jeff, and I just love mine.  :good:  Great minds think alike. :yahoo:

[trout]

I had 4 different iPhones and they all died 2 drowned and the other 2 got broken , flimsy pieces of rubbish.
I now have a Samsung S5 an so far it has been drenched (2 cyclones) fallen 5 meters onto concrete and has survived a head on collision. :good:

[Fulvio]

2 drowned

You do know about burying wet electronics in rice, yeah?

Actually, Silica Gel may work even better, methinks.