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I’m going off to college this upcoming fall and I’m trying to decide if a mac laptop would be the best choice. I’ve always used a pc at home, but a lot of people say macs are a lot easier. Do they ever have a lot of technical problems?

I agree with Grace. If you’ve grown up on a PC, you will always miss some of the features of PCs. If you’ve grown up on a Mac, you will never leave a PC once you switch, haha. Just kidding, just kidding. Seriously, both are great, but if you’ve grown up on one over the other, you just have to consider that you’re re-learning an operating system… not a TV remote.

To the second half of your question… The Macs that I’ve worked with haven’t had a lot technical problems until they’re about 3-4 years old. Then they start having "normal" hard drive issues and sometimes power issues. Whether you have a Mac or PC, as long as you take care of it (clean the keyboard and screen, don’t download suspicious things [be logical... have you heard about the thing you're downloading before?], and keep it from bumping around too much) it will last you a long time.

I want to get a new laptop soon. I have had Windows laptops in the past and now I have an urge to get a Mac laptop ($1300-$1500). However, I am hesitant because I have never had one. Can you state your case for which laptop I should purchase, Mac or PC and why?

Hey, a mac will work just fine, you will find that it takes a little getting used to, but after a while you will never want to go back

Hope this helps

I want to get a new laptop soon. I have had Windows laptops in the past and now I have an urge to get a Mac laptop ($1300-$1500). However, I am hesitant because I have never had one. Can you state your case for which laptop I should purchase, Mac or PC and why?

Hey, a mac will work just fine, you will find that it takes a little getting used to, but after a while you will never want to go back

Hope this helps

I have a new iMac and a PC laptop. Is is possible to reroute the display on my PC to show up on my Mac? The video card and display size is so much better on my Mac that I’d like to still use my Mac display while on my PC. Is there any way to do that?

Nope. At least I don’t think so. I wanted to do something like that as I still needed my PC for other programs. The tech at the Apple store recommended installing Windows on the Imac. The new Imacs have Intel processors so you can partition the hard drive and install Windows. I bought a copy of XP and installed it.

Imac has a program installed called bootcamp that lets you do this. I love having both systems on one computer. There are programs that allow you to run both operating systems at the same time but I don’t need to do that.

I’m no computer expert so talk to a professional about installing Windows if you decide to do it. It’s not hard, but there are a few places where I got lost and had to call up Apple Support. They worked me through the process.

Hope this helps.

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Need to unformat laptop but of course not install any further information on laptop. So I need to run an unformat program from my main pc but get it to scan laptop hard drive.

I have a crossover cable but its obviously not as easy as plugging it into laptop and pc and away I go, can’t seem to get it figured out.

Done searches but most involve internet which I don’t need.

Just need pc to see laptop as an external hard drive.

Any suggestions?
Thanks Gerblegod, I see ‘shared folders’ but ideally need to see a separate drive C: D: E: etc.
MedievalLoser, link dead but thanks anyway
Sorted it out by myself! Got a 2.5" laptop external hard drive casing, took hard drive out of laptop, into casing, connected with USB and bingo its an external hard drive. Thanks for your answers, some good, some people obviously didn’t read the question.

If you have a LAN to use you can usually see all the computers on the LAN through my computer. So if your PC and Laptop are on the same LAN then the Laptop is just an external hardrive. If you don’t have the tools to do rthis then you might need a workaround.

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At my apartment we have Rogers wireless, routed through my roommate’s Mac laptop. Although my computer indicates that I am connected to her machine (I typed in the security code), when I try to load pages no pages will load. I have a PC laptop. I have used it to connect to the internet through other Macs, though they were ones with insecure connections. How can I fix this?

This is a little tricky. There could be several problems causing this. What I think your issue is is that you’re not correctly interpreting what your computer is meaning by the fact that it’s connected. If you’re running XP, which I suspect you are, then what you’re viewing as connected actually only means that your computer is connected to the Mac router. Or maybe only the Mac. To get it connected to the Internet, you have to first; directly connect your computer to the router, then see if it automatically detects and accepts it. Then you should be connected. If that doesn’t work, call your internet tech support and have them walk you through opening the DNS ports. If that still doesn’t work, then what you’ll have to do is this. Go into Control Panel. Double click on Network Connections. Find your internet connection, then RIGHT-click on it. Click Properties, then go down to the little window and scroll down until you find Internet Protocol (TCP/IP). Go down a little further and then click Properties. When you get in there, I’m not 100% sure…(i’m remembering all of this) Anyway, it’s either on the main tab or the Advanced tab….what you want to look for is a page that shows what networks are allowed permission to your computer. Make sure that EVERYTHING you connect to has permission to access, or nothing will work.

HP FM908UT 1101 Notebook PC – Intel Atom N270 1.6 GHz Processor – 2 GB RAM – 160 GB Hard Drive – 10.1-inch Display – Vista Business

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I am on a home network utilizing FiOS. Both my PC and Laptop utilize wireless connections (as do two other computers), with one main computer connected to the FiOS router.

I want to share folders between my PC and Laptop that the others cannot access or see at all, so that they do not know the network exists. Can someone recommend a good website to give me step by step instructions?

All you have to do is name your network something that the other computers are not and your network will not be seen by them.