01-05-2007, 12:27 PM

Hey! Let me first say how much I love this forum. It has really raised my mac iq. However, I am still not sure what model mac I need to purchase. I am media designer (print, web, whatever) and yada yada yada. can someone recommend some specs to look for in a notebook that would allow me to surf the web, run adobe photoshop, paint shop pro, and dreamweaver. I have a sufficient desktop machine yada yada yada so I'm not trying to buy new.Also I have a nice 20" lcd that i loved to connect the old craptop to, it would be great to be able to connect the laptop to it from time to time. Please excuse my "newbieness"...lol.

01-05-2007, 03:11 PM

Sounds like some pretty intense stuff. If I were you, I would go with a MacBook Pro. I have a regular MacBook and I love it, but sometimes just running a few seemingly simple applications at the same time slows it down a ton. Looking at specs, I would go with the 15" 2.33GHz MacBook Pro. It has more RAM, twice the video memory, and a slightly faster processor than the lower end one. That should meet and probably exceed your needs for a laptop. Also if you want to connect an external monitor, you should get the Apple mini-DVI adapter. I don't know what kind of screen you have, so it might have to be the VGA, or DVi. Either way, that is a great laptop and I can almost promise you that you would be happy with it.

01-05-2007, 05:27 PM

Originally Posted by Jeff

Sounds like some pretty intense stuff. If I were you, I would go with a MacBook Pro. I have a regular MacBook and I love it, but sometimes just running a few seemingly simple applications at the same time slows it down a ton. Looking at specs, I would go with the 15" 2.33GHz MacBook Pro. It has more RAM, twice the video memory, and a slightly faster processor than the lower end one. That should meet and probably exceed your needs for a laptop. Also if you want to connect an external monitor, you should get the Apple mini-DVI adapter. I don't know what kind of screen you have, so it might have to be the VGA, or DVi. Either way, that is a great laptop and I can almost promise you that you would be happy with it.

well said... that would be my exact choice of laptop right now if i were in the market for a new one, only i would get the fastest hdd (7200 i believe right now) and at least 2gb of RAM.

01-07-2007, 11:10 PM

Thanks a ton.