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JERRY2KONE · **Apple -** 02.06.2010, 07:19 AM

Can you say Apple? We have several PC's in our home. My wife has a very nice HP laptop that has been with us for just over 5 years now and it is still going strong. We have two Dell laptops, and our 14 year old just bought himself a Toshiba laptop for gaming and doing all of the usual email, research, and school projects. Our 13 year old has a Dell laptop, but we have not been too pleased with that one. My personal PC is one that I built myself and it is now 16 years old. I started with an expandable motherboard and worked my way up from there. It is an AMD Athalon 1.8ghz with dual hard dirves, and 4 gig of ram, and I use a LCD flat panel ITV 26" multi system TV/monitor for my aging eyes. I do allot of case work at home, so bigger is better for me.

I am looking at some of the newer stuff as well. The first thing I try to notice is the RAM, which these days is a must if you do not want to spend allot of time waiting on your PC to get things done if you are one of those who does more than one thing at a time. 4gig is the least I would put up with nowa days. Our BX has a couple of HP mini towers that come with a dual core intel 2.6gig processor, 6 & 8 gig DDR3 RAM, which would be my choice. Some of the Apple PC's now come with 8, 12, or 16 gig of RAM which is unbelievable thinking of where we were with these just ten years ago. Those two units run about $500 to $600.

Most of my friends are raving about the Apple PC's saying that they were diehard microsoft geeks until they began using the Apple PC. Those that have them claim that they are the best thing going right now. I sure do not know.

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JERRY2KONE JERRY2KONE SUPERMAXX Offline Posts: 3,452 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: HAYMARKET VIRGINIA	Apple - 02.06.2010, 07:19 AM Can you say Apple? We have several PC's in our home. My wife has a very nice HP laptop that has been with us for just over 5 years now and it is still going strong. We have two Dell laptops, and our 14 year old just bought himself a Toshiba laptop for gaming and doing all of the usual email, research, and school projects. Our 13 year old has a Dell laptop, but we have not been too pleased with that one. My personal PC is one that I built myself and it is now 16 years old. I started with an expandable motherboard and worked my way up from there. It is an AMD Athalon 1.8ghz with dual hard dirves, and 4 gig of ram, and I use a LCD flat panel ITV 26" multi system TV/monitor for my aging eyes. I do allot of case work at home, so bigger is better for me. I am looking at some of the newer stuff as well. The first thing I try to notice is the RAM, which these days is a must if you do not want to spend allot of time waiting on your PC to get things done if you are one of those who does more than one thing at a time. 4gig is the least I would put up with nowa days. Our BX has a couple of HP mini towers that come with a dual core intel 2.6gig processor, 6 & 8 gig DDR3 RAM, which would be my choice. Some of the Apple PC's now come with 8, 12, or 16 gig of RAM which is unbelievable thinking of where we were with these just ten years ago. Those two units run about $500 to $600. Most of my friends are raving about the Apple PC's saying that they were diehard microsoft geeks until they began using the Apple PC. Those that have them claim that they are the best thing going right now. I sure do not know. SUPERMAXX YOUR LIFE.