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Hi PF!
I'm about to buy a new laptop, and am leaning towards a 15". I currently use a macbook pro 2013 for my main computer, though I also have a PC rebooted for Ubuntu (it's my lab's, not mine).
The new macbooks are very expensive, but very durable. To me, they feel very secure and well built, not flimsy like many PCs I've used. The screen clarity is also superb, better on mine than many new PCs I've seen. Does anyone else feel this way? What is your recommendation for a new laptop? Should I fork up money for a mac, or do you have a PC in mind (again, I'll reboot this as pure Ubuntu)?
Purpose: I'm a PhD student, though I work mostly with Mathematica and LaTeX, so don't need computational power (have the other laptop for that, also have access to more power if needed, but my work is not too computational).
I'm about to buy a new laptop, and am leaning towards a 15". I currently use a macbook pro 2013 for my main computer, though I also have a PC rebooted for Ubuntu (it's my lab's, not mine).
The new macbooks are very expensive, but very durable. To me, they feel very secure and well built, not flimsy like many PCs I've used. The screen clarity is also superb, better on mine than many new PCs I've seen. Does anyone else feel this way? What is your recommendation for a new laptop? Should I fork up money for a mac, or do you have a PC in mind (again, I'll reboot this as pure Ubuntu)?
Purpose: I'm a PhD student, though I work mostly with Mathematica and LaTeX, so don't need computational power (have the other laptop for that, also have access to more power if needed, but my work is not too computational).