Laptop Recommendations

mousepod · 08-04-2006, 07:49 AM

As a mac fan, I love my iBook, and if I could find a good excuse to upgrade, I'd get the new MacBook. The MacBook Pro is even more powerful (NA has one), but since both of them are new, they both have Intel chips. The MacBook is basically good to go out of the box, though I'd probably recommend a purchase of Microsoft Office if you need a good word processor or spreadsheet app. RCT3 has been ported to the Mac OS already, and if you need to play RCT2, you can use an app like Parallel which allows you to run Windows on your mac (simultaneously, as opposed to dual boot). There's another app on the horizon (as in very very soon) that will allow you to run Windows apps without even installing Windows at all.

Solid OS, sexy design, cool bundled integrated apps (iMovie, iDVD, Mail...), the ability to run Windows if you need to.... I'd go with the Mac.

Andrew · 08-04-2006, 09:34 AM

I'll agree with Mousepod except that you don't need to blow several hundred dollars on Microsoft Office when you get get OpenOffice.org for free. OOo reads and saves all MS Office formats, and natively uses the new standard OpenDoc format.

08-04-2006, 07:49 AM	#1
mousepod You broke your Ramadar! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 4,635	As a mac fan, I love my iBook, and if I could find a good excuse to upgrade, I'd get the new MacBook. The MacBook Pro is even more powerful (NA has one), but since both of them are new, they both have Intel chips. The MacBook is basically good to go out of the box, though I'd probably recommend a purchase of Microsoft Office if you need a good word processor or spreadsheet app. RCT3 has been ported to the Mac OS already, and if you need to play RCT2, you can use an app like Parallel which allows you to run Windows on your mac (simultaneously, as opposed to dual boot). There's another app on the horizon (as in very very soon) that will allow you to run Windows apps without even installing Windows at all. Solid OS, sexy design, cool bundled integrated apps (iMovie, iDVD, Mail...), the ability to run Windows if you need to.... I'd go with the Mac. __________________ "Give the public everything you can give them, keep the place as clean as you can keep it, keep it friendly" - Walt Disney
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08-04-2006, 09:34 AM	#2
Andrew Making Good Girls Go Bad Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Palo Alto, CA Posts: 734	I'll agree with Mousepod except that you don't need to blow several hundred dollars on Microsoft Office when you get get OpenOffice.org for free. OOo reads and saves all MS Office formats, and natively uses the new standard OpenDoc format. __________________ -- Andrew Just Andrew. Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.) -- Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"
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