Laptops

[aguerrrroooooooooooo]

Lol, The fact im starting to like MacOS is making me feel dirty, believe me. But i need to use it for xCode.

It's just little things with Mac that annoy me really; the way i feel apple still try and impose restrictions on you despite it being a desktop OS

The main thing I can think of is NTFS drives; why do they need to make them incompatible? Just frustrates me lol :)

 

[Yaya_Tony]

Don't spend more than 2 ton, if he's got anything about him (which he should with that degree course) he'll make it work, plus a terabyte hard drive for less than 50 quid, job done. Don't buy a mac.

 

[Cheesy]

Don't even bother buying a new one!

Plenty of places that do refurbished/reconditioned laptops and if classed as an "A" or something similar you'd never know they weren't brand new.

 

[Dalian Blue]

Its very dependent on what you want to do with it, 8 gig of ram should be plenty if you have a decent SSD.... If it was the choice of SSD or more than 8Gig of RAM I would personally say SSD. But got a grand you should easily get both.

read / write to RAM is always faster than read / write to storage

Anyway, in answer to the OP, If it looks good, does what your son wants, and you can afford it, buy it.


P.S. If your son wants any help with his computer science studies, forget the Nerdy blogs, ask the question on Bluemoon :)

 

[Dalian Blue]

It's just little things with Mac that annoy me really; the way i feel apple still try and impose restrictions on you despite it being a desktop OS

The main thing I can think of is NTFS drives; why do they need to make them incompatible? Just frustrates me lol :)

err, NTFS is Macro$haft being tw@s, as usual

for anything else, download MacPorts

 

[aguerrrroooooooooooo]

err, NTFS is Macro$haft being tw@s, as usual

for anything else, download MacPorts

Then why can I open NTFS drives on Linux?? My media centre runs off an NTFS hard drive

 

[Dalian Blue]

I'm not sure what the problem you are having is mate, I can open, read and write to NTFS formatted drives from my Macs and my Linux machines. There was a problem around ten years or so ago where Linux could read NTFS but not write to it, that has been resolved.

P.S. I use ext4 wherever I can, and good old FAT32 for sharing, something akin to showing my arse in Burtons window, but there are a shed load of XP machines around

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

I wouldn't buy something as expensive as that off Ebay. Plus the going rate for a machine like that appears to be around the £1250 mark on Dell's own website.

So ask yourself how come it's so much cheaper on Ebay.

 

[jay_mcfc]

Student discount for Mac's;

http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/ap...-apple-music-subscription-2016-beats-3466634/

 

[Yaya_Tony]

Some refurbished machines on eBay are absolute bargains. Got experience. Just sayin'

Avoid apple and make sure it's a pc. It's more compatible with everything. Make 200 quid your limit. Can always upgrade later.