Originally Posted by
Tom Stenzel
A few years ago we bought a pair of Toshiba laptops with Windows 8.0 for my daughters. My younger daughter liked that laptop so much she worked two jobs last summer so she could buy a lower end Mac Air laptop. I've never used it but I think it's wonderful. Not once has she brought it to me because something was fouled up, she's been able to figure out any problem she's run into.
Well, she can't hasn't been able to write to the external hard drive she has as it's formatted NTFS. That's a solvable problem. For me anyway. For her, not so much.
To help funnel money for the Air I bought the Toshiba off of her, now running Win 8.1. I can see why she didn't like it, intermittent freezes, slow. Knocking out some of the useless services has it working better but I prefer the linux desktop for normal use. Linux won't run the tax software so the laptop takes care of that, another factor in my buying it.
In short, years ago I would have said that the Apple cost couldn't be justified. I no longer say that.
-Tom