[Leica] What Desktop Computer to Buy These Days?

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Way to go Adam.    You are right on target.
 
 

Regards, 
Sonny
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In a message dated 1/31/2007 7:10:35 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
abridge@gmail.com writes:

Robert,

I don't play on the Windows side in any way but I sure  am impressed
with what HP has been doing in terms of their user-experience  for
delivered products. I've unpacked a few of them and found  the
instructions to be without peer, even better than Apple's. Maybe  the
best instructions I have ever used.

I used to really trust HP as  a company. No longer, what with all their
idiocy at the board level, but  they still know how to engineer and
create good products and now their  designs are truly done world-wide.

As a Mac guy I'm always there to  boost it - but if you have lots of
software and experience using Windows,  and you aren't having the
down-side of Windows because you're sophisticated  enough to set up and
maintain your system to be virus/spyware free, why  change and lose the
productivity while you relearn another way to do  things? I find that
Photoshop on the PC feels alien to me and imagine that  you'd find the
same experience on the Mac coming over from  Windows.

I won't get into all the arguing and brick-bat throwing that  goes with
whether one system is better built than another. I know that my  G5
desktop system is like a rock - fast and stable. My laptops have  been
very good. More expensive? I don't know. But if you buy a system  of
equal capability from HP or Dell I have to think the Mac would come  in
about the same price: much of the chip set is the same. There will  be
fewer driver issues on the Mac because the hardware is owned by  Apple
which makes things a lot easier and most Windows people who  complain
seem to have driver issues at some point (as I hear  them).

Hope this helps. Keep your life  simple.

Adam