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It was the Republicans who balanced the budget with their “Contract with America” Clinton just went along for the ride.

Uh, ya, which explains why we went back to record deficits once the Republicans ruled the white house and congress. sheesh.

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Let’s see:

13.3″ screen, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB drive, $1700.

or

15.4″ screen, 3 GB RAM, 250 GB drive, $820.

Say the $1700 lasts 10 years. Someone could buy the $820, throw it away after 5 years and buy a new one (which would, by that time, either be much cheaper or have much more RAM and disk space) for the second five years and still save money !

I guess I will never understand Mac people, but I’m glad they are around to keep competition alive. Shrug. Buy what you like, like what you buy.

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Let’s see:

13.3″ screen, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB drive, $1700.

or

15.4″ screen, 3 GB RAM, 250 GB drive, $820.

Say the $1700 lasts 10 years. Someone could buy the $820, throw it away after 5 years and buy a new one (which would, by that time, either be much cheaper or have much more RAM and disk space) for the second five years and still save money !

I guess I will never understand Mac people, but I’m glad they are around to keep competition alive. Shrug. Buy what you like, like what you buy.

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Let’s see:

13.3″ screen, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB drive, $1700.

or

15.4″ screen, 3 GB RAM, 250 GB drive, $820.

Say the $1700 lasts 10 years. Someone could buy the $820, throw it away after 5 years and buy a new one (which would, by that time, either be much cheaper or have much more RAM and disk space) for the second five years and still save money !

I guess I will never understand Mac people, but I’m glad they are around to keep competition alive. Shrug. Buy what you like, like what you buy.

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Let’s see:

13.3″ screen, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB drive, $1700.

or

15.4″ screen, 3 GB RAM, 250 GB drive, $820.

Say the $1700 lasts 10 years. Someone could buy the $820, throw it away after 5 years and buy a new one (which would, by that time, either be much cheaper or have much more RAM and disk space) for the second five years and still save money !

I guess I will never understand Mac people, but I’m glad they are around to keep competition alive. Shrug. Buy what you like, like what you buy.

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Let’s see:

13.3″ screen, 2 GB RAM, 80 GB drive, $1700.

or

15.4″ screen, 3 GB RAM, 250 GB drive, $820.

Say the $1700 lasts 10 years. Someone could buy the $820, throw it away after 5 years and buy a new one (which would, by that time, either be much cheaper or have much more RAM and disk space) for the second five years and still save money !

I guess I will never understand Mac people, but I’m glad they are around to keep competition alive. Shrug. Buy what you like, like what you buy.

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The labels conservative and liberals have been pretty back-asswards for awhile in several ways.

An example: though people think of “conservatives” as being more financially prudent and cautious, the Republican party for some time now has given out tax cuts at the expense of the deficit. This is not financially prudent or cautious. Really, what “conservative” Republicans want is as much money in their pockets as they can get, to hell with whether it is borrowed money or not.

“Liberal” Democrats, on the other hand, were able to balance the budget (under Clinton anyway) even if it did mean higher taxes. This is a more financially prudent and cautious approach.

There are other examples, but I don’t want to write a book here.

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The labels conservative and liberals have been pretty back-asswards for awhile in several ways.

An example: though people think of “conservatives” as being more financially prudent and cautious, the Republican party for some time now has given out tax cuts at the expense of the deficit. This is not financially prudent or cautious. Really, what “conservative” Republicans want is as much money in their pockets as they can get, to hell with whether it is borrowed money or not.

“Liberal” Democrats, on the other hand, were able to balance the budget (under Clinton anyway) even if it did mean higher taxes. This is a more financially prudent and cautious approach.

There are other examples, but I don’t want to write a book here.

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The labels conservative and liberals have been pretty back-asswards for awhile in several ways.

An example: though people think of “conservatives” as being more financially prudent and cautious, the Republican party for some time now has given out tax cuts at the expense of the deficit. This is not financially prudent or cautious. Really, what “conservative” Republicans want is as much money in their pockets as they can get, to hell with whether it is borrowed money or not.

“Liberal” Democrats, on the other hand, were able to balance the budget (under Clinton anyway) even if it did mean higher taxes. This is a more financially prudent and cautious approach.

There are other examples, but I don’t want to write a book here.

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The labels conservative and liberals have been pretty back-asswards for awhile in several ways.

An example: though people think of “conservatives” as being more financially prudent and cautious, the Republican party for some time now has given out tax cuts at the expense of the deficit. This is not financially prudent or cautious. Really, what “conservative” Republicans want is as much money in their pockets as they can get, to hell with whether it is borrowed money or not.

“Liberal” Democrats, on the other hand, were able to balance the budget (under Clinton anyway) even if it did mean higher taxes. This is a more financially prudent and cautious approach.

There are other examples, but I don’t want to write a book here.

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The labels conservative and liberals have been pretty back-asswards for awhile in several ways.

An example: though people think of “conservatives” as being more financially prudent and cautious, the Republican party for some time now has given out tax cuts at the expense of the deficit. This is not financially prudent or cautious. Really, what “conservative” Republicans want is as much money in their pockets as they can get, to hell with whether it is borrowed money or not.

“Liberal” Democrats, on the other hand, were able to balance the budget (under Clinton anyway) even if it did mean higher taxes. This is a more financially prudent and cautious approach.

There are other examples, but I don’t want to write a book here.

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With respect to quality issues that have been brought up in this thread, my household has had 5 laptops in the last 10 years: 3 Dell and 2 HPs (their timelines overlap). We usually use them 4-5 years before we donate them to other family members and replace them.

We’ve never needed to do a single repair to any of those laptops, which is probably why I didn’t feel the need to give weight to one brand over the other wrt quality. As far as I know, those machines are still ticking in their current homes too.

In my industry, we have worked quite a bit with HP equipment and the conclusion that many of us came to: HP makes top-notch hardware and crappy software. Those may be out-of-date generalizations now and probably do not apply to their laptop product line at all, but that was their image in my neck of the woods.

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With respect to quality issues that have been brought up in this thread, my household has had 5 laptops in the last 10 years: 3 Dell and 2 HPs (their timelines overlap). We usually use them 4-5 years before we donate them to other family members and replace them.

We’ve never needed to do a single repair to any of those laptops, which is probably why I didn’t feel the need to give weight to one brand over the other wrt quality. As far as I know, those machines are still ticking in their current homes too.

In my industry, we have worked quite a bit with HP equipment and the conclusion that many of us came to: HP makes top-notch hardware and crappy software. Those may be out-of-date generalizations now and probably do not apply to their laptop product line at all, but that was their image in my neck of the woods.

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With respect to quality issues that have been brought up in this thread, my household has had 5 laptops in the last 10 years: 3 Dell and 2 HPs (their timelines overlap). We usually use them 4-5 years before we donate them to other family members and replace them.

We’ve never needed to do a single repair to any of those laptops, which is probably why I didn’t feel the need to give weight to one brand over the other wrt quality. As far as I know, those machines are still ticking in their current homes too.

In my industry, we have worked quite a bit with HP equipment and the conclusion that many of us came to: HP makes top-notch hardware and crappy software. Those may be out-of-date generalizations now and probably do not apply to their laptop product line at all, but that was their image in my neck of the woods.

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With respect to quality issues that have been brought up in this thread, my household has had 5 laptops in the last 10 years: 3 Dell and 2 HPs (their timelines overlap). We usually use them 4-5 years before we donate them to other family members and replace them.

We’ve never needed to do a single repair to any of those laptops, which is probably why I didn’t feel the need to give weight to one brand over the other wrt quality. As far as I know, those machines are still ticking in their current homes too.

In my industry, we have worked quite a bit with HP equipment and the conclusion that many of us came to: HP makes top-notch hardware and crappy software. Those may be out-of-date generalizations now and probably do not apply to their laptop product line at all, but that was their image in my neck of the woods.

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