Do You Realise/That Everyone You Know Someday Will Die

[liadnan]

Well, given that's a sample lyric it's perhaps slightly bizarre that this is my cheer-up album of choice. But that's the Flaming Lips for you.

As expected, the laptop screen is uneconomic to replace. I am so furious about the 200 quid I spent on repairs last week I can't bring myself to think about it.

Eventually decided tospend up to 850 on a brand new machine. Which means the choices are narrowed down to a 12" screen G4 iBook (the plan *had* been that when I bought a new machine a year from now it would be a top end power book) at 799; a 15" Fujitsu Siemens thing at 860, or a fairly well-specified 14" Asus (?) at750. It'll probably be the ast of those, but if anyone has any observations to make now would be the time to make them.

Comments

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

I'm probably going to get a laptop around Christmas/New Year and have been thing about Macs. Never used one before and hate Mac bores but what do you reckon? I mostly want to use it for media stuff - Photoshop, Acid, Cubase, maybe video editing - all things Macs have a good rep for.

[susumu.livejournal.com]

To be honest, pretty much all of that stuff runs just as well on Windows these days, and you will get more "bang" for your "buck" with a PC laptop. I would still recommend a Mac for video editing though, simply because they comes with iMovie for free - which is a good start (and iDVD if you get one with a Superdrive), but you'd need to give it a hefty RAM upgrade to help it along. I've just put an extra 512 in mine and now it feels like the machine it always should have been when I bought it.