Need a new laptop

I have a lenovo and aside from it weighing 1000 lbs, ive been happy with it. Had it over a year and I use it like 10 hours a day and its still pluggin along..

also to respond to Mama I have a macbook and it was the worst purchase I have ever made. I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate it. I'm apparently a PC only kind of girl.

I love my mac and it was freeeeeee for meeeeee!

What do you use it for and what's most important to you?

Portability?
Price?
Power?

Do you have a strong OS preference?

Mougar wrote: [quote=Anastasia Beaverhausen]I apparently knocked over a cup of soda and it sat in the puddle all night. It won't even power on. I'm thinking of getting a HP mini. Macs cost a freakin' fortune.

If you want a netbook, I'd say get the Asus: http://www.amazon.com/10-Inch-Netbook-Processor-E-Storage-Battery/dp/B001GIPSAC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=pc&qid=1234813853&sr=1-1
What about the Dell Mini 9 or the new Samsung NC10?

This Samsung feature may be of particular interest to the Beave:

Another slightly usual feature of the keyboard is that it's covered with an antibacterial layer. Its coating of ionic silver particles will apparently prevent bacteria living and breeding on the keyboard, effectively eliminating 99.9 per cent of all know germs within 24 hours, according to Samsung.

The Acer is supposed to have terrible battery life. The Samsung has Windows and a 160GB HD, although I'm thinking that if you're going netbook, an SSD (even a lower-capacity one) makes more sense, especially since you can put so much crap on a USB jumpdrive now that you don't have to keep all your files on the main SSD. The Samsung keyboard is also supposed to be much larger and easier to use than the mini keyboard on the Asus (not to mention the anti-bacterial properties), and it outperformed the Asus on some of the benchmark tests in the article I linked to above.

EDIT: Personally I'm a Mac guy, but I've been thinking about a netbook and I'm not crazy about the Macbook Air. After seeing an awesome Hackintosh that someone I know made out of a Mini 9, I've been looking into these things over the past few days.

Question - do you really need a laptop? If you need one, great, but most people with 'em don't need the portability and you'll be paying more for something with less horsepower, less storage space, higher chance of being damaged or stolen and less likely to be easily repaired...

i know far too much about killing a laptop and needing another: this happened friday night.

i bought the low end macbook and i LOVE it (sorry carmen). seriously, i would have sex with this thing if i could. LOVE IT.

I guess I hate the mac for a few reasons:
1) SUPER overpriced. For $1400, I expected it to run reasonably quickly (especially considering I dont really DO anything with it.) It doesn't. Its slow as shit.
2) You can't do anything PC business related with it. I've tried every dualboot and every MS office freeware thing I can get my hands on and NOTHING works well enough to actually mimic a PC. I cannot run windows on it because it is too slow. The mac versions of MS office applications suck and eat a ton of memory.
3) I really honestly can't figure out how to do anything on it. As someone once told me "think dumber...think of what someone who is computer retarded would do, then do that. Thats how macs are designed." This has helped, but being reared as a PC person (not just MS either, I used redhat and fedora for 3 years for business) I just can't adapt.


The built in camera is fun, but lots of PCs have those now and will give you way more bang for the buck.