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Hey sell me an iMac.
Hello. My name is Phil. I am from the UK. I am new here and I have joined because I need some advice from people who know what they are talking about.
What would you do?
My laptop got damaged in an accident and the insurance has come through. Unfortunately it is by way of a coupon that I can spend at Currys or PC World which doesn't fill me with confidence but needs must.
For the value of the coupon I can buy a stupendously high spec Core i7 Windows 7 based desktop with a bit to spare, a high end i7 Windows 7 laptop or an iMac.
My wife wants an iMac for the reliability but I have told her that the reliability has nothing to do with the hardware because it is all pretty much the same nowadays. No, it is down to the software and if I buy one of the Windows computers I would be installing Ubuntu giving me a dual boot system with the option to use Ubuntu Linux or Windows 7 and seeing as (I believe) Ubuntu is at least as stable and fast as Mac's OS X (waiting for incoming fire) surely it is a no brainer? Yet my wife still wants a Mac.
So what do you lot think? iMac with its medium spec hardware but superb operating system or a really high spec dual boot Windows 7/Ubuntu Linux rig?
I am erring toward the Win7/Ubuntu option but my wife is being very persuasive so I need the low down. I need to ask the experts.
Please. Sell me an iMac.
I thank you.
Phil
Hello. My name is Phil. I am from the UK. I am new here and I have joined because I need some advice from people who know what they are talking about.
What would you do?
My laptop got damaged in an accident and the insurance has come through. Unfortunately it is by way of a coupon that I can spend at Currys or PC World which doesn't fill me with confidence but needs must.
For the value of the coupon I can buy a stupendously high spec Core i7 Windows 7 based desktop with a bit to spare, a high end i7 Windows 7 laptop or an iMac.
My wife wants an iMac for the reliability but I have told her that the reliability has nothing to do with the hardware because it is all pretty much the same nowadays. No, it is down to the software and if I buy one of the Windows computers I would be installing Ubuntu giving me a dual boot system with the option to use Ubuntu Linux or Windows 7 and seeing as (I believe) Ubuntu is at least as stable and fast as Mac's OS X (waiting for incoming fire) surely it is a no brainer? Yet my wife still wants a Mac.
So what do you lot think? iMac with its medium spec hardware but superb operating system or a really high spec dual boot Windows 7/Ubuntu Linux rig?
I am erring toward the Win7/Ubuntu option but my wife is being very persuasive so I need the low down. I need to ask the experts.
Please. Sell me an iMac.
I thank you.
Phil