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There will always be cheaper Windows laptops that are made of plastic and have poor specs, while Apple doesn't really offer any low end computers.
Yeah, that's the problem, I can't even afford the cheapest one for £750 yet, I'd have to wait until summer when I am finished studying, by which point I wouldn't even need it as much anyway!
Yeah, I mean I like windows as I'm used to it, if I had a new laptop I'm sure i'd be fine..
I don't think there's any doubt in my mind that Macs are faster and run more smoothly, I just am not paying £900 for one
I have a 5K iMac which is reasonable for a Mac at $1,900 which has a 5K Retina display, a 1 TB fusion drive, 3.2 GHz i5 processor, and 8 GB of ram which will hopefully be 32 GB later. It's a better value than a Dell 5K monitor which costs $2,100. Linux is free, but there is a learning curve and a ton of Distros to choose from. I would suggest watching videos on how to switch from Windows to Linux if you want to switch. The computer I'm on right now has Manjaro which is based off of Arch Linux, a pretty complicated Distro for newbies. I have my brother to thank for putting Linux on my laptop which has 16GB of ram. The computer at my other house is the Mac I own.
I'm not a tech kind of person, and quite frankly most of it confuses me, so I just pick a simple Windows computer that that I can use Microsoft Word on.
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I'm happy I canned Windows a few months ago....
IMO.
1. OSX: Can do things I can't do on Linux. Plus no auto updates and spying.
2. Linux: No spying or auto updates like Crapdows.
3. Windows: Auto updates like crazy then sees what you are doing and downloads more updates to apply automatically which bogs down the computer.
I think if Macs were cheaper, I would think about getting one. But I would be mostly running Windows on it (it can be installed using BootCamp if someone doesn't know). I just like its design and the technical qualities are decent.
Linux has its pluses, but it doesn't have many programs I need (mostly games). You can run them on Wine (a software which allows to run Windows applications), but it's less efficient than Windows, which is especially important in games (because I don't have a particularly powerful computer). And it's not an operating system which is so difficult that only geeks can use it. At least, many modern distributions like Ubuntu and Mint are quite user friendly.
That would've been useful a few months ago but I switched to Manjaro on my gaming laptop.
Why exactly Manjaro?
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