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please tell me what laptop you use and if you're happy with it. thanks. |
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and if you'd buy one from the same company again now. this isn't data harvesting. |
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might be a good idea to tell people what you are going to use it for. games? word? interwebs? |
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I'd say HP anyway. |
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How much do you want to spend? |
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I asked you what laptop YOU use freqs and if you've been happy with it. |
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I use a tower. but if you answered the wittle quetsions, we be able to help you more. i may know of a very nice laptop if i knew your requirements |
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I have a range of laptops to pick from in my little spreadsheet, I'm just waiting to see apple refreshes and am just interested in what other people use and whether they are pleased with their purchase. |
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im alright with my macbook pro 13'' (2015) |
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i have macbook pro late 2013 and mid 2015 and i like the older one better. fan is less annoying, touchpad still works like day one, but i have a bug that somehow crawled behind my screen. i don't know how he don dat |
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Always been happy with Apple. Though take my word with a pinch of salt as I haven’t owned a PC in a long time. Appart from the price, and the fact they’re not the company they used to be humanely speaking, I’m happy. |
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They’ve been constant innovators, and copied by the greats because their product is (was) solid. Same goes design wise. |
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Depends what you want to do with it, I guess. I use ms office mostly , I scan a lot of shit, and have a lot of folders, so my MacBook Air (2016) is perfect. Im still very happy with it, battery lasts 10+ hours and it is light af. At first OS X felt like a pain, but once I learned how stuff works, it became more intuitive and faster than on a win pc. 20 years ago never did I imagine such a machine could exist. We have come a long way. Incidentally, with 8gb ram it runs renoise quite well too, as long as you don’t push it too much. Also it it has hd 6000 onboard graphics with about 1.5g vram, so it can run some older 3D titles (like vampire the masquerade) really well, using bootcamp. Never had an Apple computer b4 this one. Everyone says this best thing about it is the trackpad, and I agree. I can’t believe how crappy tracking is on windows laptops. Keyboard is good and I touch type like a boss on it. Not sure about those new flat keys Apple has these days, though. Design wise I think it looks really nice. I’d like to have it in black. I think some of the edges are too sharp. It imprints upon my skin. I did drop it onto a hard tile floor once and it completely survived the fall. The metal has a scuff but performance is unaffected. You get judged when you have an Apple product. I must say I do suffer cringe when I watch their keynotes. It’s very culty. But I can live with that. The machine is good and I don’t really care about that other stuff. Although I do think about the poor Chinese sods who put it together. These days the MacBook pros are like the MacBook airs. Just think how nice and compact powerful machines will be in the future. Anyway, I prob would buy another lightweight laptop from Apple again but the one I have should last me a while still. I also have an old 2012 mid tier gaming laptop. It’s bulky in comparison. I treat it like a regular pc by not moving it and plugging in mouse/keyboard/monitor. Ps copy and pasted this on phone, formatting might be weir |
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Hello mate! |
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Hello! |
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I resigned myself to just get another macbook although I've been using Max/MSP today on Windows (which was my primary concern) and not had any issues so I'm torn again, macbook pros are ridiculously priced these days. |
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hows it going? |
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the main thing I look for in a laptop apart from the spec, is how easy the charger is likely to break, connection etc. The best thing about the mac I reckon is the magnetic charging port means you don't break the wire when your really tired and trip over it which I always do |
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They've got rid of magsafe charger now though, which is one of the reasons I'm on the fence. The difference between windows laptops hardware wise has diminished but the price has gone up at an accelerated rate to the point you can end up paying like an extra 700 quid simply for OS X. Core audio and core midi are so fucking good though. |
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yeah for me id probably get something that wasn't Mac everytime, the midi stuff doesn't sound good though so I can see why you would get one, they are generally well built I must admit |
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magsafe is great. has saved my comp many a-time. Don’t know why they would move away from that. atm I'm saving/dreaming about getting a tower, with a beefy cpu and a 10-series nvidia graphics card or sth, so I can experience the world of AAA gaming hyper: it’s going, life is chaotic atm, for me and everyone around me. I hope things settle down soon, no more surprises. Hope all’s good on your side. I still visit here often, always nice to see your posts. |
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thanks mate, you made me feel nice. Hope circumstances improve for you ASAP its no fun having uncertainty in your life |
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buy a digitakt instead :-D |
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Don't tempt me!! |
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macs age well, when you never update anything, after 3-4 years (of stability) it starts to become a good investment, and its reflected on your user experience |
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and of course have a case, a hard one permanently and a soft one for frequent transportation, and dont wank on the keys |
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forever new √ |
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seen the first mac at 14, im 38 now |
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lol just priced out a 15" macbok pro vs 15" thinkpad macbook: worse processor, lower resolution, worse keyboard, worse memory, probably worse build quaulity, +$550 (30%) more expensive! lol! discrete gfx card in the macbook pro might be a little bit better, but its radeon =p |
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Link? |
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meh it won't let me link to a customized version, you'll have to select the specs yourself: - i7 8650U - UHD 3480x2160 - 16GB DDR4 2400mhz - 256GB SSD - Geforce MX150 2GB 1850 USD comparing with the 2.8Ghz macbook model here (2400 USD): |
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That's what I'm talking about. Prices are insane and even higher comparatively here in the UK. Think I'm gonna go with a windows laptop this time around. |
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apple thingies are ridiculously priced, no denying that. that said, when I bought the air in 2016 (just yesterday, come to think of it) - as far as ultrabooks went, things like the xps 13 and the acers, asuses, lenovos etc were priced higher. Though they did/do have significantly better processors etc. The MB air was on the lower end of the price spectrum with regards to lightweight portable “ultrabooks”. I’d definitely think twice about getting a mb pro. If I were to get a beefier latop, I’d probably get a lenovo (my 2012 laptop is a Lenovo Y580 - bless its ageing heart). Those razer blade laptops have always been very attractive to me. Also ridiculously priced. The razer stealth is pretty. |
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refurbished Thinkpads, & run em into the ground - even if it only lasts 6 months, for 200 quid it's worth it |
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Buy a macbook and it's like - this has gotta last 3-4 years - and then yr all careful with it and don't get proper usage. |
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>>> I did drop it onto a hard tile floor once and it completely >>> survived the fall. The metal has a scuff but performance is >>> unaffected. Back years ago, I picked my G4 powerbook from repairs, and the guy goes, do u want to put it in a bag - yeah. Gets a bag, holds it out, I put the laptop in, and... it falls straight through onto the concrete floor! Only fucking carrier bag i have ever seen where the bottom wasn't fixed together! It was a bit dented but fine. |
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The bloke couldn't believe it either, turned bright red and started stuttering. |
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Aha, poor fellow, I’d have stuttered too had that happened. I try not to coddle my mb air too much. It is metal after all, I try not to worry too much. I don’t mind the odd scratch (or dent even). As long as it works. I did panic when it fell, though. Tried a case once, didn’t like it. Felt like it defeated the purpose. |
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Btw thanks hyperflake appreciate it. If I made you feel nice, that’s great cos u r nice, genuinely so. Jesus Christ you have accumulated a shit ton of posts, I remember when you had <1000 posts, you were nice then too |
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I got a windows gayming laptop so I could do my VR max projects on the go. It's ugly as sin but a total beast and everything works well so far. I would say it cost me a lot less than a macbook with the equivalent spec but you can't get a macbook anywhere near this powerful. It has fully removable hard drives, ram and wifi card so if I swap the wifi out I can get a perfectly working hackintosh on the second ssd. Pretty chuffed. |
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you're too skilled to have a mac |
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Lol very kind of you but very false |
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