College laptop: should I go with Windows or Mac?
I’m going to college this fall and need a laptop. I’ve never had one before, but I’ve been using a DELL desktop running on Windows XP (or, obviously, a different Windows variant) since I was 8ish–so I’m a fairly experienced user of Windows, but I don’t think I’ll have much trouble figuring out how to use a Mac, as I’ve used my friends’ Macs before. I’ve looked at several guides online, like PC magazine’s Mac vs PC, but it talks about issues I’m unconcerned with, like how you can build your own desktop from scratch. I’m unconcerned with hardware, as long as it’s workable I’m good. I don’t want to modify the registry or whatever, I just want to be able to use it.
Here are some issues that are important to me for a laptop:
Light, even 5.5 is pushing it for me…I have little arms.
Battery, I’m planning on taking this to classes with me
Ability to video chat
Ease of use
Right now, if I’m going Windows I’ll do DELL, either Inspiron 15 or Studio 15, if Mac, the Macbook.
I believe you are referring to the laptop weight being under 5.5 lbs.
Need good battery life
Screen Size 15.4″ … now all this does not add up
and i will illustrate my point, if that makes sense
Dell Inspirion 15: Weight: Starting weight of 5.8 lbs. (2.64 kg)
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-inspiron-1545?c=us&cs=19&l=en&ref=lthp&s=dhs
Dell Studio 15: Weight: Starting weight of 5.54 lbs. (2.515 kg)
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-studio-1555?c=us&cs=19&l=en&ref=lthp&s=dhs
Apple Macbook, 13.3″ screen is much more portable at 4.5 pounds (2.04 kg)
http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs.html
now checkout some of the other systems,
ASUS F6 Series F6VE-X1 NoteBook Intel Core 2 Duo P8600(2.40GHz) 13.3″ Wide XGA 4GB Memory DDR2 800 320GB HDD 5400rpm DVD Super Multi ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570
Weight 4.3 lbs.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220512
Dell XPS 1330: Weight: Starting at 3.97 lbs (1.8 kg)
http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsnb_m1330?c=us&cs=19&l=en&ref=lthp&s=dhs
now we have dealt with the weight / portability aspect only
& battery runtime is next on consideration
looking forward to your comments so as to narrow down better
another angle you could explore is ‘netbooks’
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netbook
& http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_netbooks
an example,
ASUS Eee PC EPC1000HE-BLU002X Blue Intel Atom N280(1.66GHz) 10.0″ WSVGA 1GB Memory 160GB HDD Netbook
Up to 9.5 hours battery life allows for “Whole Day Computing”
Weight 3.20 lbs.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834220505
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