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Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Aug 13, 2010 at 09:37 AM
Daly,
Thank you very much for sharing your Mac exprience in this detail.
Just some ideas regarding the laptop:
- Test the keyboard of the laptop. There really poor ones around especially for writers like you.
- Take at least a dual core machine with a fast processor because Windows 7 and MS Office are resource hungry
- Check guarantees and services. It’s very annoying to wait for six week until a laptop gets repaired.
- Maybe you want to get MS Office installed on your laptop. Take the 2010 edition and not the 2007 edition. The 2020 edition is more stable and less resource hungry
- Check the performance of the battery. Three hours for a notebook are not good enough
Regarding UR/MI:
I personally prefer UR but mabe only because I have been using it since version 1.0 and I am used to it. It’s the perfect tool for me at the moment.
All the best,
Dominik
Posted by Pierre Paul Landry
Aug 13, 2010 at 05:04 PM
>I am going to Staples this afternoon to look at PC laptops running Windows 7. If anyone has suggestions, I will gratefully receive them.
I’m a big fan of Acer notebooks. They have a new line of thin, light 8hr notebooks:
On http://www.acer.ca, check out the TravelMate? Timeline 8371, 8471 and 8571, but there are other too
Posted by sracer
Aug 13, 2010 at 07:01 PM
Daly de Gagne wrote:
>Thanks to everyone who responded to my various posts about the Mac and my experiences
>with the software.
>
>The Mac will be history by the end of the week; I am going to Staples
>this afternoon to look at PC laptops running Windows 7. If anyone has suggestions, I
>will gratefully receive them.
>
Have you considered installing Windows on your Macbook? I’ve got a Macbook Pro, bootcamped WinXP. It runs XP better than any notebook I’ve owned that had XP or Vista preloaded. I’ve been running OSX for 7 months, but if I ever decide to go back to Windows, I’ll just convert the drive over to Win7.
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Aug 14, 2010 at 08:10 PM
Domink, thanls for the post.
Good advice.
I got an Intel Core i3 machine - an Asus, with a nice keyboard, 15.6 inch monitor, 4 gig RAM.
I like it so far.
I have MyInfo up and running, and am gradually bringing my other programs over from the netbook I had used for a year, prior to getting the Mac. Staples very kindly took the Mac back, and set me up with the new laptop.
Daly
Dominik Holenstein wrote:
>Daly,
>
>Thank you very much for sharing your Mac exprience in this detail.
>
>Just some
>ideas regarding the laptop:
>- Test the keyboard of the laptop. There really poor ones
>around especially for writers like you.
>- Take at least a dual core machine with a fast
>processor because Windows 7 and MS Office are resource hungry
>- Check guarantees and
>services. It’s very annoying to wait for six week until a laptop gets repaired.
>-
>Maybe you want to get MS Office installed on your laptop. Take the 2010 edition and not
>the 2007 edition. The 2020 edition is more stable and less resource hungry
>- Check the
>performance of the battery. Three hours for a notebook are not good
>enough
>
>Regarding UR/MI:
>I personally prefer UR but mabe only because I have been
>using it since version 1.0 and I am used to it. It’s the perfect tool for me at the moment.
>
>
>
>All the best,
>Dominik
>
>
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Aug 14, 2010 at 08:12 PM
Pierre, thanks for the advice.
I ended up getting an Asus; battery is said to be good, though not as good as the Acer you mentioned.
Cheers,
Daly
Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
>>I am going to Staples this afternoon to look at PC laptops running Windows 7. If anyone
>has suggestions, I will gratefully receive them.
>
>I’m a big fan of Acer notebooks.
>They have a new line of thin, light 8hr notebooks:
>On http://www.acer.ca, check out the
>TravelMate? Timeline 8371, 8471 and 8571, but there are other too
>