Macbook Pro Or Macbook

[frankie_hilary]

Yes i could always just buy a dell windows. A lot cheaper. Some might say that they are equal since apple gives you tons of software and windows doesn't How ever if i do everything illegaly, dell would be the better option, but i don't intend to do it illegally.

I have 1000 saved up. Lol so about 1000-2000 more. Lol. Well my birthday is around the corner, so thats 500. SO i am almsot there. I like the design of the mac book more then the mac book pro. I've never seen them in person however. I heard tho that the mac book pro graphic card sucks. And that you can't play 3d. I would like to be able to play 3d.

Alll i really want is just a laptop with..

at least 100gb hard drive
at least 1gb RAM

and a graphic card that will allow me to play and 3d and provides me with brillent picture.
Oh maybe an amazing sound card 2. lol

The major problem is tho, my software. Some i've bought online and are windows only, and some in bought in store. Is there a way of making these software work on an apple? I know there is boot camp, that allows you to load windows on mac. Does that mean the same with software?

Or can you switch between the mac os to the windows os. <---- now that would be something. What do you think?

Anyone has a mac? Do you like it? Which do you like better?

[InternetNightmare]

MacBook Pro has 3D acceleration. It's also faster. Though I'd go with Windows sollution.

[tonyj]

for your software issues, you can always use bootcamp and dual-boot OSX and WinXP if you get an Intel Mac. Macs would probably be able to handle medium resolutions and effects when it comes to games, but if you want to do hardcore gaming, neither the macbook or macbook pro has the graphics to handle a lot of eye candy. for that purpose i think you are probably better off buying a desktop replacement notebook like one of them higher model dell inspirions\XPS or something along the lines of those, but of course they are not as sleek or as portable as the Macs. anyways you probably need at least a GeforceGo 7600 or above for a 'real' gaming notebook.  

[jjb123]

If I had the money I would go for the Macbook Pro. I might run bootcamp with a small windows parition for games like HalfLife and other games like that. I have heard that windows xp running on a macbook is faster than windows xp running on a pc instead of a mac.

[frankie_hilary]

wait so you can toggle  between the 2 os's

[jjb123]

Yeh, with apple's BootCamp. It allows you to switch between OS X and Windows on start up.

[Jimmy0]

You would most likely get a boot menu when you turn it on, so you can choose whether to book into Windows or anything else.

[jjb123]

Yeh, there is a picture of the selection menu on the page I posted.

[IP_mat]

There is also a emulator software called paralles, which lets you run windows inside Mac OS X, it is, however, not for gaming, since it is running 2 OSes at the same time, and you need at least 2 gigs of memory for it to run well.

I do not know about the quality of the graphics card of the MacBook Pro (ATI Mobility Radeon X1600, 128 MB or 256MB).

Is there anything else you want to do with it, which software besides games? If you pretty much only play games, go with some gamer notbook (like the xps).

I have a powermac G5, and a 12" powerbook, and I really like them. I do a lot of video editing, and multi-tasking.

[frankie_hilary]

That is so hot! Toggling between the 2 os's. Well lol i don't play many games on the comp. I have like a gamecube, ps2, and a ds lite for that.  Sometimes i just download a game for one of my systems that i am not sure if i will like, and play it. So i guess i wouldn't need a good graphic card. I just heard ppl saying oh mcbook graphic card sucks, and i am like oh so ihave to egt mac book pro them.

I just kinda think the screen is too small.

With bootcamp, are u able to acess your file from ethier os, and the same with your programs?

[tonyj]

not sure, but my guess is you probably have to setup a sharing partition on your harddrive since i don't think OSX works with NTFS that well and WinXP probably don't like Mac file system either.

[frankie_hilary]

oh that kinda sucks then.

[IP_mat]

you can't share programms. OSX can read NTFS, but not write to it. Windows can't see nor write to apple file system (Mac OSX Extended Journaled). Mac OSX and windows can both read/write to the old FAT 32, but it has a filesize limit of 2 GB.

If you can wait, wait for WWDC, where Apple will be announcing the feature of it's next OS, Mac OSX Leopard. I suspect that some of these issues, like ntfs write support will be solved. WWDC is from August 7 until August 11th.  

[laboye]

What is all this I hear? Apple? Dell? 1000 dollars? For that price, you can get a screaming Acer Ferrari or Acer Aspire with all the specs you need. Some newwer models have the new Intel Dual Core (Conroe) processors. Most have a gig of RAM and the hard drives are customizable with an option of 100GB. Even SATA!

Re: Dell: The XPS laptops aren't all they're dished up to be. Quite frankly, they suck. It has that "trusty" Dell name, too. As far as hardware is concerned, Dell used too many proprietary parts.

Re: Apple: Apple is apple. Everything in an apple has to be apple or an otherwise complete apple supporting company.

If you need a machine for video and graphics editing, the Apple will work for you. If, however you want to play games or have a shred of native compatibility, get a PC.

I have a dualboot of Mac OSX and Windows XP on a PC. To tell the truth, it's OK. I wasn't too impressed, but the effects rendering is smooth.