Thursday, March 28, 2013

Quest for a Windows, Mac Laptop

I was a proud owner of a mac for more than 6 months and i totally loved it though it prevented me from using 30GB of soft-wares i downloaded from my home country India, I came to USA for masters and as i had enough money to buy a mac i though of buying it though i can find a ton of computers at half the price with the same features, but it was a good decision, i was in the ellite rich guys who own a mac, i never had the idea of being rich, but innertly felt being proud owning a mac, and i must say it is really good it does stuff it needs to do very optimized and there is no doubt it is an excellent personal computer it is indeed a personal computer its the computer that makes you feel , you wouldn't place a mac on a dusty desk, you would rather keep it on your lap ! 

fastforward to 6 months from then, i had a trip to india and so have to give my laptop to my sibling so as to pass the feeling of being rich, and indeed she felt happy as it is a good piece of hardware and she had some downsides, but they are gone as she is able to run boot-camp on it which magically makes windows in another partition run in the present mac, its really cool piece of software  all the changes you do in mac to windows will be made to windows when you boot to windows. that's really awesome you don't need to install windows excel on mac again !  

and now I have decided to buy a windows laptop as i need to install a lot of softwares, i wanted a laptop thats as durable as a mac and as good as mac, ok i look to dell and bought a 14z for a deal after browsing through net skimming through deals, found on techbargains.com, logicbuy.com , dealmoon.com and finally after finding a deal that could give me a 14z(i5,6gig ram,500gig hdd) which is $700 for $500 i took it and then had fun with the laptop for a while then i started looking at the screen and started feeling bad, really bad. i want a laptop that i can type and I see clearly, and the colors should be colorful where ever i look, not at a angle. I also had a dell latitude 630 an old one with 2gigs of ram and a really good screen and a descent battery life and really really good screen, i bought from a friend for 90$ and trust me it is having a better screen than this dell 14z. my eyes would pain like hell looking at the screen,i miss the aesthetic colors of the world , then i though i must return this laptop an so called them and returned them , the return process is really easy and they refunded my money, now i have a heavy dumb laptop (dell latitude 630) so now i need to buy a new one and so i looked at macbook pro with retina and though i must buy it , but i want a windows laptop and so i stopped buying it and looked around and .and i totally forgot i got a windows gift card for 75$ and as i am a student i would get a 10% off on laptops so i bought a samsung series 5 laptop and the specs are awesome and the key board is really great and it costed me like $700 but again the screen sucked me to core, the screen is having a good resolution but a very bad viewing angles, so mitigated that laptop to another friend for a kind of no profit no gain deal, then i looked a dell xps 12,13 12 is costly 13 is costly with a 14z screen and then asus zenbook by the time i though i must have it from a windows store (as i again got a windows 75$ giftcard) but its pulled out of store as they sell only touch screen laptops , please i dont want a laptop that always want me to touch it at places ! and then i stumbled upon Lenovo think pad x230 with IPS display and so ordered it inspite of the hefty $800 price tag i just got it with ips display and a 320gig hdd and 4 gig ram which is very low end that too with an i5  it is looking good so far must experiment with this and then see what happens, why cant we have a laptop like mac for windows good descent screen ssd or hdd and a backlit keyboard who cares for a ultra light laptop please give a laptop that's descent specs and a little weight is accepted.