Emma,

Up until now i have only had PCs but i am completely in love with my little, little oh so little Ibook.

I think you should come over to the dark side or the white side as the case may be.

J

My name is Julie and i am a mac user!

I’ve always used PCs and to be honest I’ve never felt the need to switch, a computer is just a computer ,isn’t it? I suppose I might be a little different than most in the sense that I built my own PC last year, sure it goes wrong occasionally but I’m lucky in that I can usually fix it without too much hassle.

I love my PC, its like a pet, and it loves me too. xxx

Grinder

On the basis that whatever I've ever tried to do to a computer, car or house has turned out to be more complicated than the book and the friends swore it would be, I'm cautious, tempting though those lovely PowerBooks are. What about softward I've got on here which isn't dual format? I'd have to buy it new for the Mac, wouldn't I?

Plus those widescreens are less than useful for the likes of me, as I'm mostly working on A4 pages. When PowerBooks come with an equivalent of my 19" PC screen, which swivels so I can work with a whole, full-sized A4 page at once, and 'page down' is just like turning the pages of the MS, then I'll get my credit card out.

Emma

I suppose it is all about what you need it for, i work, study and more or less live at uni. I need something that i can carry around and somehow i don't think a 19inch moinitor would fit in my back pack (would burn extra calories thou!)

Grinder i to have a desktop pc at home, one which my brother more or less built and it rarely runs smoothly. But i am not willing to give up PC's all together but the macs certainly have a good thing going!

J

The 19" is nice, but it's the swivel that really makes the difference, and I haven't seen a laptop of any sort, PC or Mac, that'll do that, alas.

Mind you, the 6 shelves of reference books I seem to need when I'm writing wouldn't fit into a back-pack either! (Note to self - another possible thread for favourite writing)

Emma

Emma i have this really cool laptop stand that holds my laptop while i work allowing for better posture and it swivels!!!

Plus it looks really funky on my desktop but i will admit i don't take it everywhere with me.

Emma what is it that u do? Textbooks and reference material? i know all about the back strain trying to carry these things around on a daily basis.

I write historical fiction, for my sins, and don't seem to be able to do some stages of the novel without SOED, Brewer's, huge nursing textbook and Oxf. medical companion,(well, how else will I know how a 15th cent. soldier's death from septicaemia will go?), CUP's Handbook of Dates (What was Richard III's regnal year at Bosworth. And when was Easter?), DK's 20th Century Year by Year, dictionary, map and guide book for any other country I've landed myself with writing about, dictionaries of first names, surnames, saints, history, quotations, Bloomsbury's Thesaurus (miles the best), atlas of Britain and London, Oxf Dict for Writers and Editors (new one fairly useless, alas), Judith Butcher, Oxf book of English Verse, histories of costume....

And that's before the novel-specific books that I've got for research. Fifteen new ones piled up waiting for me to finally slough off Shadows in the Glass and get on with it, and twenty or so on the shelves from last time I tackled the 15th Cent..

Emma

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Your laptop stand does sound cool - I'll have to look into that.