i just bought a gateway laptop about a yr ago.. 2.7 ghz 64 bit pross.. 1.5 gig ram.. 128 vid... 100 gig hdd and there customer service was ok... BEST BUY SERVICE BLOWS!!!!! took my puter into them cause my hdd took a poop.... i got it back with out an operating system on it.. and best buy said i was stupid to think they would install it on my puter... but grek squad told me to take it there.. so i called gateway.. they sent me the master restore disk overnight.. and well its fine now.. but im fighting with best buy cause i want my warrenty money back... i filed complaints with bbb on the corp office the store here in florida and the store in ohio where i got it at... i can be an azz at times... oh well...

but the next one i get will be an apple laptop.,...

I am from Sarasota FL. =D not to far from you. Yeah Best buy robbed me in highschool charged me almost 300 to install my wires in my car for my subs. Thats just the man hours no wires or anything

I've got a nearly 3 year old iBook G4. I used it in school and still prefer it for work related things (graphic designer) but the crap thing is that at work I have to use a PC. I freeking hate all the crashing and windows problems....but sadly now the only thing I really use my Apple for is surfing the web and any hobby design I do outside of work.

My husband has an equally old HP laptop, and we really haven't had many problems with that either

Exactly right! 2 minutes or less. I was on the phone with an Apple tech for an hour while he walked me through the 'fsck' routine to diagnose/fix the problems I may have been having. He sent me more info on other ways to fix problems also. I learned a good deal. He had a box shipped at my office the next day to send my computer in to get fixed!

Don't ever let a PC tech touch a Mac. They don't know chit. Most IT guys I know (a few that my company uses) won't even know how to troubleshoot simple problems on the graphic dept.'* Macs. Though it'* all understandable since they never use Macs.

I love my new mini. 1.67ghz, 1gb ram, 100gb hd and superdrive. Not bad for $300 including keyboard and mighty mouse. Still learning the tricks though.

NEVER buy a computer, or get one serviced, at an appliance store. Their commercials may try to make it sound otherwise, but they are NOT an electronics store. They are an appliance store that branched out into electronics. Getting Geek Squad in house was a step in the right direction, but just a little one as I would imagine the Geek Squad is limited in what they can do by Best Buy policy..

I'm not an Apple person myself. Never learned them. and as much as people claim Windows is just a copy of the Mac OS, there'* enough different to keep me from it. And they are too proprietary. I prefer the "get it wherevery you want" idea of parts and software for the IBM based machines... (aka Windows machines)

Apply to the Mac life maginzine if your new to Macs or even long timer with Macs you learn sooooo much from that maginzine!

$300 for a mac mini wth? Where you get that at? Sweet deal.

Yeah I learned to just take it to the Mac store when I have problems PC techs will not touch my computer EVER. The reason I didnt do that was because I like 2 and half hours away from the closet apple store.

So there'* gonna be a 2.5 year old mac in the For Sale section?

actually no I sent out the old one back to apple. =/ They made me. But I still got 4ghz of Ram for a G5 =) If anyone wants it

How much for the ram?