new computer

[BonnieJW]

My daughter wants to purchase a laptop computer. Can someone please tell me which company is "blue?" I know Dell is not. So what blue company makes a good computer? I don't want a Mac.

[billyoc]

1. The only one I can recommend:

http://www.unionbuiltpc.com

[babylonsister]

2. Hi, BonnieJW. You also might want to ask your question here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=242

The DU Marketplace group is usually used for people selling stuff, not wanting to buy.

[BonnieJW]

7. Thanks!

Just did.

[GoneOffShore]

3. Why not a Mac?

The new ones with the Intel chips run any Windows :scared: program she'll need. And she'll have a lot less trouble with viruses and security.
Try Small Dog Electronics for refurbished Intel Macs.

[onehandle]

4. Outside of Apple, I don't know of any Blue Computer companies.

Steve Jobs is a FOB (Friend of Bill Clinton)

Michael Dell is an EOH (Enemy of Humans)

[Nomad559]

5. Apple Is a Red Conservative Company

Steve Jobs, Proud to Be Nonunion
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/news/2007/02/72754
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Employees offer mixed reactions to Apple corporate life
http://www.appleinsider.com/article.php?id=974
Meanwhile, a product manager stationed at Apple's home-base in Cupertino sums up Apple as the average conservative company, which works its employees "to the bone" without enough compensation. "When I started it felt like Apple knew my name and what I did," the employee wrote, "but now am nothing more than employee XXX."
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iPod maker admits breaking Chinese labor laws; says Apple approved sweatshop labor
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32644

"Apple Computer is getting into a deep PR mess over the antics of one of its Chinese partners," Nick Farrell reports for The Inquirer.

"After denying that it was running a sweatshop that would be familiar to Charles Dickens, Apple's Ipod manufacturer, Foxconn has finally admitted that it broken Chinese labour laws," Farrell reports.
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Apple shareholders sue Apple
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/technology/06soft.html?ex=1238558400&en=a02e636bde4b87f8&ei=5035&partner=MARKETWATCH
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Apple lobbied against state e-waste recycling legislation and continues to lobby against takeback bills.
http://www.texasenvironment.org/ewaste_apple.cfm

However, Apple has yet to set any public recycling goals, as Dell and HP have, so it’s too soon to tell how committed Apple is to publicizing its program and making it work.

[billbuckhead]

6. What kind of computer do you use, Nomad?

This will be interesting.

[Nomad559]

8. I have many computers

I currently have several IBM's, Micron's, Dell's, 1 HP Compaq and 1 NEC.

Most of the computers run Windows, 2 runs Linux, and sometimes one of them runs the Intel/AMD Mac OS X 10.4.5

Is that Interesting enough for you?

Would you care to know what Operating System Earl (Onehandle) uses? ... Mac OS X

:)

[Nomad559]

9. Now This Is Interesting

billbuckhead - Kennesaw Georgia

onehandle - Marietta Georgia

:)

[billbuckhead]

10. Kennesaw huh?

Weird since I live in Buckhead and work in Marietta and Cumming.

[Deja Q]

11. Don't forget this gem of a site

http://www.badapple.biz - talk about iWaste indeed...

Apple can go eat worms.