Posted: 12/29/2009 5:00:45 AM EDT
| what should i buy iam on my 4th hp pc and am tired of having to pay to have them fixed all the time was wondering if i should try apple or is there a better pc i should look at |
| I've been in the IT field for 20 years or so and am a network admin for an ISP. I just bought my first "canned" PC. Always built them myself before. Just got a Dell 546 with Windows 7 on it. Set it up over the Christmas weekend. It's sweet! Fast and quiet. I actually like Windows 7 too! Hated Vista with a passion. Stayed on Win XP all through the Vista mess. I'd buy another decent Dell or an IBM without thinking about it. Every HP I've ever worked on, be it commercial or corporate, was a piece of crap. |
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I've been in the IT field for 20 years or so and am a network admin for an ISP. I just bought my first "canned" PC. Always built them myself before. Just got a Dell 546 with Windows 7 on it. Set it up over the Christmas weekend. It's sweet! Fast and quiet. I actually like Windows 7 too! Hated Vista with a passion. Stayed on Win XP all through the Vista mess. I'd buy another decent Dell or an IBM without thinking about it. Every HP I've ever worked on, be it commercial or corporate, was a piece of crap. I build my own too. Buy a Dell with windows 7 if you cant build your own. HP have been crap for a while. |
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I've been in the IT field for 20 years or so and am a network admin for an ISP. I just bought my first "canned" PC. Always built them myself before. Just got a Dell 546 with Windows 7 on it. Set it up over the Christmas weekend. It's sweet! Fast and quiet. I actually like Windows 7 too! Hated Vista with a passion. Stayed on Win XP all through the Vista mess. I'd buy another decent Dell or an IBM without thinking about it. Every HP I've ever worked on, be it commercial or corporate, was a piece of crap. I build my own too. Buy a Dell with windows 7 if you cant build your own. HP have been crap for a while. HP corporate stuff is good, but yeah the consumer stuff has been crap. If you do any gaming, do yourself a favor and get a PC. |
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sounds like you need to get a better antivirus and stop clicking on all the free porn advertisements/websites  i learned from my past mistakes 
if you do any PC gaming, i don't know if games are made for macs also. This is why 99.9% of the people have problems with PCs. |
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I love macs but it you're making the switch you'll have to do some learning. You won't have the virus and spyware problem but if you're not the geeky type it won't be painless. oh BS.. my non techie daughter of 14 made the switch in about a 1/2 hr's time.. they are so easy a hippy can use them stoned.. |
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Windows 7 is actually better then XP. Dells are nice stay away from everyone else, you could also buy a machine from a local computer store if they have some kind of decent tech support deal. and you could buy a mac simply because the problems you are having are software. then you wouldn't have to worry about it getting something off the net because no one cares enough about macs to actually exploit their OS. |
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I love macs but it you're making the switch you'll have to do some learning. You won't have the virus and spyware problem but if you're not the geeky type it won't be painless. oh BS.. my non techie daughter of 14 made the switch in about a 1/2 hr's time.. they are so easy a hippy can use them stoned.. You haven't supported them for PC users. You underestimate the density of some people. |
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While we're on this subject..whats a good free anti virus..are there any? lol and are streaming porn sites ok? Microsoft Security Essentials |
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sounds like you need to get a better antivirus and stop clicking on all the free porn advertisements/websites i learned from my past mistakes
if you do any PC gaming, i don't know if games are made for macs also. This is why 99.9% of the people have problems with PCs. It sure is... 
BTW - I'm posting this from a crappy old Compaq Presario (HP) that I bought new in 2003. The only time I've pulled the tower out from under the desk in the 6+ years since was for a badly needed RAM upgrade. Of course, YRMV. OP - there is nothing wrong with the PC platform - hit up the Urban Commandos forum here - read, learn, profit? |
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While we're on this subject..whats a good free anti virus..are there any? lol and are streaming porn sites ok? Microsoft Security Essentials +1. Its free and non intrusive. I cant tell its running either. |
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I love macs but it you're making the switch you'll have to do some learning. You won't have the virus and spyware problem but if you're not the geeky type it won't be painless. oh BS.. my non techie daughter of 14 made the switch in about a 1/2 hr's time.. they are so easy a hippy can use them stoned.. You haven't supported them for PC users. You underestimate the density of some people. OH you mean like the exec getting one.. Well they would have problems with an echt-a-sketch.. So I dont count them.. and I do PC and Mac support here at work so Ive seen a whole lot of stupid.. |
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While we're on this subject..whats a good free anti virus..are there any? lol and are streaming porn sites ok? This is what I'm putting on all my new builds and Virtual machines. http://www.microsoft.com/Security_Essentials/ |
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While we're on this subject..whats a good free anti virus..are there any? lol and are streaming porn sites ok? Microsoft Security Essentials This works well - I installed that on my wife's new netbook as soon as I set it up on my wireless network. Also look at Avast or AVG, with Malwarebytes or SuperAntiSpyware. All free, all work well. Just stay the hell away from those Russian hosted fetish porn sites... |
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I love macs but it you're making the switch you'll have to do some learning. You won't have the virus and spyware problem but if you're not the geeky type it won't be painless. Wait, what? I am far from computer savvy. I completely suck at computers, yet I find my eight month old mac a breeze. Far easier to navigate then PC. |