Anya ,'Dirty Girls'
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Anyone want to throw out some recommendations/guidance/pointers for someone who's decided to go out and buy himself an Apple laptop today?
Also, any compelling reasons to buy it at the Apple store rather than BestBuy or somewhere? (That last is purely for my benefit, because it means he has to come to Chicago.)
Apple laptops have not nearly enough RAM (256 MB), but DO NOT get more RAM from Apple, b/c they way way way WAY overprice it.
Brenda, I'd be better at answering specific questions, rather than throwing out general advice. Do you know what he wants it for? (Like, school, general word processing, internet, etc., or more graphics-intensive stuff?)
Internet is probably the biggie - he's just quit his job, does not do any gaming or intensive graphics works. Probably movies and such, too. Businessy-type word processing and spreadsheet stuff will likely be useful at some point too.
I'd say an iBook, then, rather than a PowerBook, unless money is no object for him. If he wants to burn DVDs, he needs to make sure he gets one with a Superdrive, not a Combo drive (which will play DVDs, and will burn CDs, but will NOT burn DVDs). I'm 99% sure that you can't get a Superdrive in the 12-inch iBook, though, just in the 14-inch.
All the iBooks come with a wireless card built-in, so that's covered.
The iBooks are amazing. You can be up and running within 5 minutes of getting it out of the box.
Thanks! I've passed that on, we'll see what he does.
Question - would it be a simple process to install a Russian font? Not sure if anyone would know this.
On a Mac? There should already be some Cyrillic fonts installed. In any event, it's trivial to add new ones.
Not sure if anyone would know this.
That statement NEVER applies to the Buffistas, silly!
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