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If you don't feel like building your own computer and would rather get a prebuilt, What are the best major computer brands? The worst?
Best/worst computer brands.
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This. I've had tons of PCs and they all last 2 years before being trash. I've had 2 MacBooks in the last 20 years and they just keep going. The one I'm posting on now is from 2013.
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You know I love you bob, but this post leaves much to be desired <3
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Apple is quality, just runs into compatibility issues with some software and obviously games.
I feel like Dell is somewhat consistent? I have one right now and it works fine except for when my hard drive crashed.
But my Lenovo before that was an absolute PoS and a lot of the other brands like Asus, Toshiba, Acer etc have rather shaky reps
I feel like Dell is somewhat consistent? I have one right now and it works fine except for when my hard drive crashed.
But my Lenovo before that was an absolute PoS and a lot of the other brands like Asus, Toshiba, Acer etc have rather shaky reps
A laptop that still works great after 12 years is downright impressive.
Gave my old iPad to ma dukes as well. People can hate on their stuff because it's a bit more expensive, but you can't argue with a decade + of use for every Mac I've owned.
PS, I have a new Mac for recording, old studio ran on a g5 setup that was rock solid. I interwebz on an iPad Pro. All top notch.
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WIndows machines generally come with useless shit on them, but Lenovo is notorious for it. Hell, they had known spyware at one point. About two ago, I got a NIB Legion Y530 for $400 at a Best Buy. Couldn't argue with the price. All the hardware was great, less the monitor. It's a shitty monitor for gaming/photo work, when the rest of the hardware was put in there for it. It had all this useless shit that was slowing it down. For the average person, they would have thought it was just a shitty hardware and returned it.
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I'm no expert but I got an Acer for myself and an Asus for the woman and both have been awesome, especially for the price
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For a desktop, it doesn't really matter. Every company basically uses the cheapest of whatever they have listed on the specs. For instance if they advertise a 750W power supply, it'll be an unrated one. Whereas if you build your own computer, you would go out of your way to get 80 Plus gold or silver. Whichever HDD capacity they have listed it's a cheap model, so it'll crap out sooner than if you had made the choice and specifically bought one well reviewed by users (less failures). Whichever SSD capacity they have listed, it's not one of the fastest. Whichever cooler comes with the processor, it's the bare minimum to prevent it from overheating. Whichever fans come with the case, they're not the quietest. Whatever, you get the idea. So it's not hard to understand why people get anal and just eventually skip the middleman. A PC that a company built is never optimized properly, putting cheap parts is how they skim profits.
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Oh, I certainly went to town removing bloatware on it as soon as I got it.
My issues were more along the lines of the materials that make up the laptop are very cheap and that the performance dipped hard after about 2 years when I'd like for it to hold out for at least a couple more. Granted, I still have it as a backup and it does run albeit at a snails pace and it is going on 7 years now, even though a hinge is completely broken now.
I have a Sony VAIO laptop from the early 00's that still works like a dream. It's just sitting on a shelf in my basement but I could plug that bastard in right now and shitpost on Sherdog if I needed to. I've had probably 5-6 other laptops since that one that have all crapped out but that bastard is indestructible.
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You are going to get every different answer in here TBH. Brand loyalty and people getting unlucky with name brands left and right will throw you this way and that. Here is my experience:
Worked in a hospital for 5 years and we used dells the first 2 years I was there. Dells were inconsistent, so I got them to switch to HP. We rarely had any problems with HP desktops, laptops, or foldables.
Been with company I am now for 6 years. All 6 years have been Lenovo laptops and yoga's/foldables. I cannot say enough good about Lenovo in my experience. We have roughly 400-450 laptops in the field and alot are going from construction site to construction site. Very good stuff.
We just started rolling out some Surface Pros to user who need more mobility, and have nothing but good with those as well. Very solid. All this being said, we buy top of the line i7s with 16-20+GB ram and such for our users and we flip their machines every 5 years.
Aside from brands, for me personally, I build a new gaming rig every 3-5 years depending on jumps in tech. This year is a little different since the government is throwing money at me, I built 3 PCs and a new server. If people ask me brands, I point them to Lenovo. If they want a desktop that will stick around for years, I suggest me custom building them something.
Worked in a hospital for 5 years and we used dells the first 2 years I was there. Dells were inconsistent, so I got them to switch to HP. We rarely had any problems with HP desktops, laptops, or foldables.
Been with company I am now for 6 years. All 6 years have been Lenovo laptops and yoga's/foldables. I cannot say enough good about Lenovo in my experience. We have roughly 400-450 laptops in the field and alot are going from construction site to construction site. Very good stuff.
We just started rolling out some Surface Pros to user who need more mobility, and have nothing but good with those as well. Very solid. All this being said, we buy top of the line i7s with 16-20+GB ram and such for our users and we flip their machines every 5 years.
Aside from brands, for me personally, I build a new gaming rig every 3-5 years depending on jumps in tech. This year is a little different since the government is throwing money at me, I built 3 PCs and a new server. If people ask me brands, I point them to Lenovo. If they want a desktop that will stick around for years, I suggest me custom building them something.
Some interesting history there
Former Sony President Kunitake Ando says that Sony turned down an offer from Steve Jobs back in 2001 to allow it to run Mac OS on Vaio laptops,
Apple had commissioned Sony to help design the PowerBook range launched ten years earlier, and Jobs was known to admire Sony’s work. Ando said the feeling was mutual, with Sony feeling the Mac and Vaio shared a similar philosophy, and expressing admiration for the first iMac.
Much hespect. Seriously though, Sony's high end engineering produced top-of-the-line shit.
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I used to love pcs. They are the best for gaming. However, I rarely play games these days and needed something for work. I was tired of all the bullshit problems with pcs so tried a mac out. After I got used to the differences I saw the light. Hallelujah praise the lord kingdom come thy will be done. On earth as it is in heaven. Rosebud.
I bought my macbook in 2015 and been using it ever since. I have not had a single crash in all that time. What in thee fuck. With pcs there was always some stupid problem popping up at the most annoying time.
To sum up: pcs for games and babies, macs (and iphones) for making money.
I bought my macbook in 2015 and been using it ever since. I have not had a single crash in all that time. What in thee fuck. With pcs there was always some stupid problem popping up at the most annoying time.
To sum up: pcs for games and babies, macs (and iphones) for making money.
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Build your own PC. This is where Apple doesn't even fit into the equation.
Apples are for simpletons. If you want or know how to completely manipulate, tweak, upgrade, change up your comp... Pc is it. You want to play more games, have more software, have little to no issues installing, programming, upgrading, swapping OS at will.... Get a PC.
Owning an apple is like living in a dictatorship with all the limitations and lack of freedom.
Apples are for simpletons. If you want or know how to completely manipulate, tweak, upgrade, change up your comp... Pc is it. You want to play more games, have more software, have little to no issues installing, programming, upgrading, swapping OS at will.... Get a PC.
Owning an apple is like living in a dictatorship with all the limitations and lack of freedom.
