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Re: Buying A New Computer
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Macs are the best!
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Thanks Kevin! For your misinformation!
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02-05-2012, 06:13 PM
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Re: Buying A New Computer
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It will be a desktop more than likely. Unless I can get a laptop cheaper, and use my old monitor, keyboard, and mouse. Most laptop screens are too small for me.
It will probably be at Best Buy and a Dell.
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You can use a monitor, mouse and keyboard with a laptop
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02-05-2012, 06:15 PM
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Re: Buying A New Computer
I would not spend a dime on a mac just for surfing the net, AFF, FB etc etc....
If I were a gamer Id go with an Intell MS based system with a big honkin video card or several
I have 2 in my current system and I guess I can have 3 in it
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Let it be understood that Apostolic Friends Forum is an Apostolic Forum.
Apostolic is defined on AFF as:
- There is One God. This one God reveals Himself distinctly as Father, Son and Holy Ghost.
- The Son is God himself in a human form or "God manifested in the flesh" (1Tim 3:16)
- Every sinner must repent of their sins.
- That Jesus name baptism is the only biblical mode of water baptism.
- That the Holy Ghost is for today and is received by faith with the initial evidence of speaking in tongues.
- The saint will go on to strive to live a holy life, pleasing to God.
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02-05-2012, 06:15 PM
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Re: Buying A New Computer
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Thanks Kevin! For your misinformation!
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Doh! That's not misinformation! It's truth! Macs far surpass any PC on the market.
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02-05-2012, 08:02 PM
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Originally Posted by kevin
Doh! That's not misinformation! It's truth! Macs far surpass any PC on the market.
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As an owner of a Mac Book Pro, I can assure you that it's nothing more than preference. Both are great. I can use Mac OS or Windows 7 to work in any major application I need to, and I do. I have a dual boot system, and use them both frequently. This debate is tired and silly.
What makes the Mac "far surpass" any PC, pray tell?
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02-05-2012, 10:06 PM
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Re: Buying A New Computer
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Doh! That's not misinformation! It's truth! Macs far surpass any PC on the market.
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UH... no they don't. Take it from one who is the IT Admin at a school that is 95% Mac books, iPads, and even some Mac servers. I do see some pluses but in my humble opinion going all Mac is substituting Security for Liberty.
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02-05-2012, 10:31 PM
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Re: Buying A New Computer
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This debate is tired and silly.
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And mostly not helpful to Cindy.
Go to Best Buy. Get one of the helpful sales people to help you. Find the computer with the most memory and monitor with the best resolution you can get for the money you have to spend. Look at open box items for a possible way to upgrade to a better system than you could normally afford. Save a little for the extended warranty. Brand does not matter as much when you can get your 'puter fixed or replaced free if anything goes wrong. Save the extra money and buy blazin' fast high speed internet. The best computer is only as good as what it's runnin' on 
Now you will be all set for what you do and if you develop new skills and want to do something else you will be able to.
Best!
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Re: Buying A New Computer
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And mostly not helpful to Cindy.
Go to Best Buy. Get one of the helpful sales people to help you. Find the computer with the most memory and monitor with the best resolution you can get for the money you have to spend. Look at open box items for a possible way to upgrade to a better system than you could normally afford. Save a little for the extended warranty. Brand does not matter as much when you can get your 'puter fixed or replaced free if anything goes wrong. Save the extra money and buy blazin' fast high speed internet. The best computer is only as good as what it's runnin' on
Now you will be all set for what you do and if you develop new skills and want to do something else you will be able to.
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Thank you. 
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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02-06-2012, 09:22 AM
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Re: Buying A New Computer
Cindy,
Counting on Best Buy employees for help is a best an iffy proposition. For every knowledgable BB employee I have dealt with I probably have dealt with two who don't have a clue as to what they are talking about.
Secondly buying an extended warranty needs some consideration of the circumstances;
1. Budget - If money is tight and you are buying a $300 more or less computer buying a $100+ extended warranty does not make sense. If there is something fundamentally wrong with a component in the computer chances are it will fail within the factory warranty. Other than that it should last three or four years and at that point it will be outdated and you will want to get a new one anyway. On a $1500 computer an extended warranty might make sense but I doubt it on an inexpensive one.
2. Desktop vs laptop. Laptops have miniatureized compenents that don't last as long and laptops tend to run hotter. If I were going to get an extended warranty I would lean more toward it on a notebook / laptop than a desktop.
Last but now least there are only a few important MUSTS to look for in buying a budget computer. All else is gravy. Your minimum criteria should be;
1. At least dual core processor (quad core is even better).
2. Both Intel and AMD make good processors so I would not get hung up on which one to get.
3. At least 4 gigs RAM. More is better.
4. Windows 7 Home Premium operating system
5 At least a 320 gig hard drive. More is better and a desktop will have more but a laptop will probably have this at least.
6. Virtually all computers now have CD / DVD players/burners in them except for netbooks and some new super slim notebooks.
The gravy you may or may not get on top of that on a budget computer are;
1. built in webcam (laptop)
2. built in memory card reader
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"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
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02-06-2012, 09:28 AM
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Re: Buying A New Computer
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Originally Posted by CC1
Cindy,
Counting on Best Buy employees for help is a best an iffy proposition. For every knowledgable BB employee I have dealt with I probably have dealt with two who don't have a clue as to what they are talking about.
Secondly buying an extended warranty needs some consideration of the circumstances;
1. Budget - If money is tight and you are buying a $300 more or less computer buying a $100+ extended warranty does not make sense. If there is something fundamentally wrong with a component in the computer chances are it will fail within the factory warranty. Other than that it should last three or four years and at that point it will be outdated and you will want to get a new one anyway. On a $1500 computer an extended warranty might make sense but I doubt it on an inexpensive one.
2. Desktop vs laptop. Laptops have miniatureized compenents that don't last as long and laptops tend to run hotter. If I were going to get an extended warranty I would lean more toward it on a notebook / laptop than a desktop.
Last but now least there are only a few important MUSTS to look for in buying a budget computer. All else is gravy. Your minimum criteria should be;
1. At least dual core processor (quad core is even better).
2. Both Intel and AMD make good processors so I would not get hung up on which one to get.
3. At least 4 gigs RAM. More is better.
4. Windows 7 Home Premium operating system
5 At least a 320 gig hard drive. More is better and a desktop will have more but a laptop will probably have this at least.
6. Virtually all computers now have CD / DVD players/burners in them except for netbooks and some new super slim notebooks.
The gravy you may or may not get on top of that on a budget computer are;
1. built in webcam (laptop)
2. built in memory card reader
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
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