Buying a laptop...Suggestions?

[DHonks]

jason21nl...is there such a thing as a good ASUS?

 

I guess one reason you get Dell and HP more for servicing is due to their market-share. First off, lots more people have them. Secondly, computer illiterate folks have them.

 

Nearly every problem I've had has been with IBM's. I loved Micron for my high school and college computer. I ordered a Dell when Vista came out and have loved it. My only issue has been with an IBM laptop...lots of problems with them, though.

[jason21nl]

jason21nl...is there such a thing as a good ASUS?

 

I haven't heard of a bad one

[1992casey]

...so when I'm on the couch (like now) it isn't a heavy and hot brick.

 

While you're not going to take it with you, a "breakfast in bed" tray (Target, $15) is an excellent place for a notebook computer. You can use it in the recliner, on the couch, on the floor, etc.--not to mention, in bed.

[DSFastball55]

I'm not sure how it works, but you can buy 32 GB of RAM with a new Mac Pro. Would that be because those computers have two 4-core processors?

The newer Macs are 64-bit, so that's why they can run up to 32 GB. As I understand it, OSX was built to run whatever the hardware will support, so there's not a separate 64 bit version like there is for Windows.