Carthage

I'm going to be getting a new laptop in the next couple of weeks, and I was wanting to get everyone's opinions - are you a mac person or a PC guy? I've been in a school where there are a lot of macs, and I was giving serious thought to getting one - a MacBook or MacBook Pro. I haven't closed the idea of a windows either, so please, make your argument for your side.

For the Mac fans, I'd like to know - what's the big difference between the MacBook and the MacBook Pro?

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Natasha

Moved to Computers forum.

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Carthage

Wanted to get as much publicity as I could in General Discussion before it was moved. Sorry.

EDIT: What do you like?

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Natasha

It's okay...I left a link in General Discussion, that way people can still see it there.

I've never owned a Mac, so I couldn't really compare them.

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COOL_BREEZE2

I'll give you the same advice I usually give.

If you want a toy to play games, get a PC. And invest in a good anti-virus software and keep your anti-virus definitions up to date. Or if you really into games get a game console instead.That's what they're made for....plus you can play on the big screen.

Alsao invest in a good system maintenance diagnostic and repair software.

If you want a stable, reliable, heavy-duty, user friendly computer.......get a Mac. If you could afford it.
Good thing no cheap, cheap thing no good.

As for the difference between Macbook and MacPro. MacBook I believe is laptop. MacPro is desktop.
The desktop series of course will have a greater capacity with regard to storage, processors and upgrade flexibility.

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MacBook or MacBook Pro, cb

they are both laptops.

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bass_man1989

He means MacBook Pro's are bigger, heavier, and much more powerful. In regards to my two cents. I like my PC. I'm not a huge Vista fan (although I have it), but I just like it better than Mac. Everything seems more in place to me. Whenever I try to use a Mac it feels very foreign.

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Mystic

I like Toughbooks. I like to be able to throw my laptop around. Anything military issue seems good enough for me.

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Military issued toilet paper. Oh yeah! lol.

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ConTRo13R

Whay you gonna use it for? thats the main question, also have you used any ther OS apart from windows? if not good luck with a mac hehe

Designing and CADand pictures - Mac

Gaming/video/and anything else PC

bass_man1989

Yeah, it's good to have experience with a Mac before you buy one. A bunch of girls from my high school got Macs for college because they were "cute" and whatnot but they can't do the simplest shit on 'em. I had one girl asking how to copy and paste on a Mac.

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Minor Axis

Lol. Quite the condemnation. Copy and paste on Mac is just as easy as on the PC. CMD C (copy), CMD V (paste). CMD, the Apple key is equivalent to the ALT key on a PC. Anytime you switch to a new OS there is definitely a learning curve to some degree.

I'm sorry I missed this post when it first came up. I'm a solid Mac man, although I purchased a PC several years ago to play games on. I owned an Apple IIe from 1983-1992. When I looked at my first Mac a Performa, they were running MacOS 7. Windows was running Windows 3.0 which compared to the Macs GUI interface was a complete joke. It was a no brainer for me. Since then I have upgraded periodically. I currently own a Mac Book Pro which I travel with and Boot up in to Windows Vista when I want to play serious games. It handles Crysis, The Witcher, Elder Scrolls 3 & 4 quite nicely. When I want to get down to serious work, I boot in MacOSX.

The greatest thing about Apple making the decision to go Intel and allow dual booting, is that there are alot of PC types disgusted with their hardware and would consider Mac if they did not have to leave behind some legacy software that either they don't want to pay for again, or does not come in a Mac version. Now they can make the switch and keep their important PC programs.

I have no complaints about Mac. They are all around great computers. Best of all, they don't rely on the Registry, the giant text database that tells Windows were everything is located. Windows has come up with ways of backing the up the Registry, but if it gets screwed up, your talking Clean Install, which by the way is a very common way of PC Techs fixing problems in Windows. Why because when installing in Windows stuff is scattered all over the place and it becomes just to hard to do anything else. I've owned MacOSX since it came out and I've never had to do a clean install to fix a problem. Even if you do a clean install on a Mac, many of your programs will still work because the OS does not have to know where the program is. The program knows how to communicate with the OS.

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Minor Axis

My appraisal is only "gaming" on a PC and everything else on a Mac. I won't disagree with you about gaming other than the new Macs will boot into Vista for gaming. I'll clarify more in the next paragraph.

Video and anything else- PC? I respectfully disagree and could you clarify what you mean? Macs do video wonderfully. Definitely a statement from a PC centric user.

One thing about gaming, Mac or booted into Windows- the top of the line Mac tower is expensive as compared to what you can find in a PC, not to say you can't find a $2500 PC tower, but I also know you can get a pretty good PC gaming machine for less than $1400.

The most nice thing about Macs today is that you can look at their Intel processors and make a direct performance comparison with their PC counterparts. Did you know that Macs were used to demo Vista? And the MacBookPro at one point had better Vista benchmarks than it's PC competition? The Mac Book Pro is pretty reasonable price wise for what it offers as compared to PC laptop competition.

If you are a hardcore gamer the Mac Book will not cut it, as it has an integrated graphics (Santa Rosa) chipset on the motherboard. However the new MacBooks do have Shader 2 support so they will play more games. If you are a casual gamer, the MacBook is just fine. My wife has WindowsXP installed on her MacBook and plays a variety of relatively low overhead PC games as well as Mac offerings. Things like Nancy Drew (PC), those run of the mill murder mystery games (PC), lots of gambling games (Mac), Mystery of the Sphinx (PC/Mac), all of the I Spy games (PC/Mac), and Penumbra Overture (Mac), a mystery horror game.

Any other questions about gaming on a Mac, just give a shout!.

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