Laptop Recommendations

[lizziebith]

I have 5 computers (including my laptop and Jornada) but am thinking about switching to the MacBook. My son has to use one for school, and I'm tired of not being able to help when he asks questions. I probably wouldn't do this without the option of the dual boot or parallel method for retaining Windows, though! I'm very nervous and feel like I still need convincing. Off to the Apple store to have a little look-see in a minute...

[DisneyFan25863]

Originally Posted by lizziebith

I have 5 computers (including my laptop and Jornada) but am thinking about switching to the MacBook. My son has to use one for school, and I'm tired of not being able to help when he asks questions. I probably wouldn't do this without the option of the dual boot or parallel method for retaining Windows, though! I'm very nervous and feel like I still need convincing. Off to the Apple store to have a little look-see in a minute...

Apple has released Boot Camp, which allows you to dual boot into either Mac OS X or Windows XP or Vista.

In addition, there is Parallels Desktop, which allows you to run Windows inside Mac OS X through virtualization.

Both run Windows natively, but Parallels can't take advantage of 3D Graphics acceleration, so Boot Camp is your best bet if you want to play games.

And mousepod, Crucial is great, but I can't stand their prices. I just got a gig of additional RAM for our iMac G5...Crucial quoted me at $150, but Datamem (the place I linked to earlier) sold it to me for $100