Sony Makes The Best Laptops

No much talks.
@Bigrover dotes, u made a valid point. Comps are generally categorized into two parts. The hardware and the software.

From 1987 till date, Intel and Microsoft (Wintel) controls the Computer hardware standard because it controls the system motherboard. It not only makes the vast majority of motherboards being used in systems today, but it also supplies the vast majority of processors and motherboard chipsets to other motherboard manufacturers.

Intel also has had a hand in setting several recent PC hardware standards, such as the following:

PCI (Peripheral Component Interconnect) local bus interface.

Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP) interface for high-performance video cards.

PCI Express (originally known as 3GIO), the interface elected by the PCI Special Interest Group (PCI SIG) to replace both PCI and AGP as the high-performance bus for newer PCs.

Industry-standard motherboard form factors such as ATX (including variations such as microATX and FlexATX) and BTX (including variations such as microBTX, nanoBTX, and picoBTX). ATX is still the most popular and, beginning in 19961997, it replaced the somewhat long-in-the-tooth IBM-designed Baby-AT form factor that had been used since the early 1980s.

Desktop Management Interface (DMI) for monitoring system hardware functions.

Dynamic Power Management Architecture (DPMA) and Advanced Power Management (APM) standards for managing power use in the PC.

Intel dominates not only the PC, but the entire worldwide semiconductor industry. According to the sales figures compiled by IC Insights, Intel has about twice the sales of the next closest semiconductor company (Samsung) and more than six times the sales of competitor AMD.

Even though Intel controls PC hardware, Microsoft recognizes its power over the PC from the operating system perspective and has been collaborating with Intel. Together, they have released a series of documents called the "System xx Design Guides"

A very simple question i'll like to ask is what hardware standards have Apple set or innovated? It uses which "horsepower" for it's computing? Which Graphics Card? Which Memory? Which Chipsets? That forms your Computer system and nothing else. Apple is only good in ergonomics, aesthetics and at best conceptual art.
They source all their hardware parts just like DJCN sources hardware for his Whitebook.

Now for the Software, Windows is a "class" of its own having shipped with close to 1 BILLION systems for over 1 decade. The 2 richest guys in the IT sector really needs a break, let them go and sleep.

Now Compare these two operating systems and see the common advantages of linux over OS X

1. Flexibility
If you’ve used OS X, you know it’s user-friendly but not very flexible. You get what you have and there’s not much you can do with it. If you don’t like the layout of the desktop, you can move the Dock to either side, you can shrink it, or you can make it auto-hide. Pretty too bad, I love FREEDOM

2. Open source

3. Command line
Most power users know the command line is crucial to serious administrative tasks. In this department, OS X falls way short of Linux. With Linux, you can do pretty much everything you need from the command line. With OS X? Good luck.

4. Hardware requirements. Everyone should know better.

5. Security
In the most recent “Pwn 2 Own” competition, the OS X machine was hacked, whereas the Linux machine was not.

6 Cost

7 Availability of Software

In all the aforementioned categories, the OS X falls short.
So my bet is the one you know is better.

Know your needs, get the components, fix them up, Fedora is a free Linux OS or Ubuntu. Install and enjoy.
I bet your lappy will be the best.

let apple release theirr leopard to the wild and see how it fares. all this zoo and circus treatment it gives its os, is not helping.
ehmm back to the topic.

I've used my GATEWAY laptop for a long time now and i haven't had any problem.Should'nt that be the basis by which you know the best laptop.

The creator of this poll made a terrible oversight. Sony doesn't make the best laptops, but Apple. Check the polls again.
I'll take an Apple MacBook anytime! The best laptops ever made.

Macintosh at 25: Still the innovation leader
(http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-10130065-80.html?tag=newsEditorsPicksArea.0)

On January 24, 1984, the Macintosh came into the world, starting the second major revolution in the personal computer industry. Steve Jobs and team took some lessons from Xerox PARC and created the first user-friendly, mass market computer.
By today's standards, it wasn't that user-friendly (some will remember disk-swapping with the original Mac, which had 128KB of RAM and a 400KB 3.5-inch floppy disk drive), but compared with Microsoft's DOS operating system, it was a major technical innovation.


The Macintosh at 25: 1984 - 2009.
The 128K Mac version of the graphical user interface, with icons, fonts, folders, audio and a mouse, started a new era of computing that hasn't yet run its full course. MacPaint, MacWrite, and eventually LaserWriter, PageMaker, and Photoshop led to a revolution in desktop publishing, and AppleTalk made networking relatively simple.

The Macintosh introduced typography to personal computers.
(Credit: Susan Kare)
After nearly 25 years, the Macintosh and its offspring, such as the iPod and iPhone, are still leading in terms of setting the pace for innovation. Mac sales climbed over the past several years, but still represent a small portion of overall PC sales and have slowed down recently. The iPod holds market share in its category and the iPhone has set a new standard for smart phones.
With the annual Macworld conference approaching, and Steve Jobs declining to participate in the proceedings, expectations are low for any major announcements.
Of course, the Mac fan sites and blogs are full of speculation about Steve Jobs' health, a new Mac Mini and iMac, a quad-core Mac laptop, new home servers, a cloud-based version of the iWork suite of applications, an iPod e-book reader, and a Netbook with a 7- to 9-inch screen.
Whatever Apple announces at Macworld, without Jobs spinning his reality distortion field onstage, the result will be less impactful. Nonetheless, don't expect the Mac faithful to walk away from Macworld without something to satisfy their cravings.

i think hp makes the best laptops

Apple takes the 'touch' out of multitouch
(http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10114351-1.html?tag=mncol)

If you're intrigued by multitouch technology as much as I am, you've probably been following it pretty closely and are at least impressed by its potential.
But what could it do better? According to Apple, taking the "touch" out of multitouch would be a good first step.
According to an article on AppleInsider, Apple has issued a 30-page patent that touches on the implementation of proximity sensors into its multitouch technology on devices larger than the iPhone.

The potential innards of a multitouch panel with proximity sensors don't do much for me, but robots may feel differently.
(Credit: Apple)
The multitouch sensors combined with proximity sensors would let users interact with the given interface without actually having to touch the screen. Now, this seems a tad ridiculous to me, and is anyone really too lazy to move their finger an extra inch? Yeah they are, but that doesn't make it a good idea.
Apple sees some different applications for the technology. According to the company, users would have the capability to turn off the entire touch-screen panel, or just portions of it. In addition, users would able to power down one or more of the computer's systems by dimming or brightening the screen as they see fit.
Awesome, huh?! Alas, no. OK, I may be missing something, but why would you need a proximity sensor to do this? You could just move your finger another inch and accomplish the same thing. The only unique feature Apple cited from the filing was the idea that you could highlight virtual buttons on a display without touching them. This could prepare the button for actually being pushed. Again, how is this useful?
I may be shortsighted (probably am) but the only advantage I can see for this technology is that you wouldn't have to worry about scratching or smudging your screen anymore.
In the filing, Apple reportedly states that the proximity sensors could be made of infrared transmitters and IR receivers. It speculates that a grid of IR receivers could be placed on the panel behind the touch screen like the ones found in the latest iMacs and MacBooks.
Each sensor would be able to detect the presence or absence of an object within its vicinity. Using the data received from multiple receivers, it could then be used to determine the positioning of an object above the panel.
AppleInsider quoted the filing as saying: "The transmitters and receivers can be positioned in a single layer, or on different layers. In some embodiments, the proximity panel is provided in combination with a display. The display can be, for example, a liquid crystal display (LCD) or an organic light emitting diode display (OLED display). Other types of displays can also be used. The IR transmitters and receivers can be positioned at the same layer as the electronic elements of the display (e.g., the LEDs of an OLED display or the pixel cells of an LCD display). Alternatively, the IR transmitters and receivers can be placed at different layers."
OK, so now I know how it works. Still not sold on how useful being able to interact with the panel an inch above it is useful. Unless the proximity can sense movement much more than an inch.
Maybe this is just some Apple engineering geek's fantasy about starting us down the road that would eventually lead to a Minority Report-like interface? OK, I've used that link before, but I'm still impressed by it.

culled from www.cnet.com

i hope i that i have been able to convince and not confuse comical & cynical flyuche that MACS are way up there.
thank you.

Dell for sure, why? because they are durable, drivers are easy to get, parts are also available to change, and batteries also lasts.

now wouldnt that be something. . . ,

its entirely possible, if only you had a mind.   




are you sure?

ps: above is a satire of apple, courtesy of the Onion Network. its not real.

my guy blackspade, i think u beta tk bak your statement oh

@Ex
men i never knew hp cud come up wit cool desktop like this oh

@blackspade you didn't tell us the model of the compaq presario and HP Pavillion you were using so that we may know on what basis you are making your comparision. I have noticed that a lot of people that replied to this topic usually compare a high end model with a low end model thereby making the wrong assumptions.

so i feel its how u use a system or wat u need it for dat really matters
cheers

I had a compaq presario r3000 for a few years, and it was horrible. I rented (rent-a-center) an hp pavilion dv2988 laptop, and it performed very different to what I expected. It was one of those looks nice on the outside computers.