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[Donations: $1650] Mac Book for Mark! (WE DID IT)

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  • ADMADM
    edited June 2006
    What's the best non-mac laptop? Like the one with the most style.

    I don't want big and bulky, I want small and sexy :p
  • NickENickE New
    edited June 2006
    The Japanese Vaios are pretty snazzy: http://www.vaio.sony.co.jp/Products/note.html (full notebooks) http://www.vaio.sony.co.jp/Products/mobile.html (subnoteboooks)
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper New
    I like my hp dv5000 series laptop, it's quite sexy compared to some. Vaios are definitely sexier though.
  • MarkMark Vanilla Staff
    My vaio is the nicest looking laptop I've ever had. The longer I own it, the more I love it. It's a 15" widescreen screen - which is pretty big, but the machine itself is very light.

    My only complaint about it is the battery life, which is incredibly low - and extra batteries are very expensive.
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper New
    Yeah, i think the 15.4" widescreens are perfect size for laptops - big enough to see stuff but small enough it's still actually a laptop. It's not incredibly light (though i dont know how light you're talking but i suspect since it's a vaio probably very) - but i carried it round cardiff with it's charger and a few other bits in my bag for half a day and it wasnt that uncomfortable. Battery tends to last about 2.5 hours under normal use (though it's plugged in the whole time anyway) - extended battery is £100 and lasts about twice as long. Anyway, back to the macbook!! I'm still not sure if i want one?
  • jesusphreakjesusphreak
    Nah I think the 13.3" widescreen on the MacBooks is perfect. 12" is just way too small and 15" is a bit on the big end when it comes to portability. I think the MacBook is the perfect comprimise in size. Are the MacBook Pros widescreen?
  • BergamotBergamot
    Yeah, the 15" tiBook was one of the first widescreen laptops (or desktops, for that matter). The 15" and 17" have been ever since then.
  • AmbitiousLemonAmbitiousLemon
    the macbook makes apple's entire line-up widescreen now.
  • KosmoKosmo
    edited June 2006
    and extra batteries are very expensive.

    Well what did you expect, it's Sony, I'm actually suprised that the computer didn't cost 5000$ with the justification that it's "some and some supercomputer and the only machine you will ever need" and used non-rechargeable batteries that only Sony made and cost third of the cost of the laptop and only accepted sony brand memorysticks that also cost a shitload. It plays only ATRAC and only other format to use with it are Mini-Discs and Blu-Ray.

    Sony sucks, why is that?
  • c-unitc-unit
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/10/AR2006061000137.html
  • cmicmi
    For all the MacBook (Pro) owners: http://orbicule.com/products/ Just in case ;o) this is fun!
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper New
    edited June 2006
    No more donations guys? Not far to go now!
  • jakob_rjakob_r
    cmi, actually that's quite a good thing. I once had a laptop ... for 12 days. It was a dell and was stolen in a break-in, but the thief forgot the power supply and cable, which is a non-standard connector. Like Apple, they have an owner traceable ID#. I reported it stolen with dell. Over the next 6 months on three separate occasions I received mails from dell's customer satisfaction department asking me to rate how good there service had been, although it had not been me who had rang them up. I of course contacted Dell, as well as got the police to contact Dell, but they would not provide details of who had called, and they had provided support. I was insured but the insurance company did not pay out due to a technicality with the locks (not mine but my landlords). Since then I have been laptopless.

    End of the story: I would install such a thing and I think there's a similar kind of internet pinger available for windows too.
  • MarkMark Vanilla Staff
    edited June 2006
    A donation from Damien Lebrun brings us to $1300!!
  • automatthiasautomatthias
    I just came across this article on Slashdot: Heat, Whine, and Now Yellow MacBooks. Hm...
  • fishgrrlfishgrrl
    Because I got vanilla up and running SMOOTHLY at http://www.seahorses.ws/Vanilla, I threw in another $20.00. I would have done more because it is worth more to me that there is this great open source software. Unfortunatly, I'm poor. :) Just though to let you know once again that it is awesome.
  • BergamotBergamot
    Yeah I'm totally sending another donation once I have a job, with money and stuff.
  • MarkMark Vanilla Staff
    Woohoo, Fishgrrl!

    Now we're at $1320 :)
  • MarkMark Vanilla Staff
    Somebody just donated $0.05. I'm not going to add it to the list since Paypal will probably charge as much just for taking the donation. Wierd!
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper New
    haha. Awesome. Whats the target again? $1650?
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