Your choice?

mr g5 · mr g5 #1 (**permalink**)

05-20-2006, 12:48 AM

Next year We will be able to use laptops. Up until now I was planning on getting a powermac 2.3. But now that we will be able to use laptops in school I am thining about the lowest MBP. I would still rather have the powermac because the extra power helps and I watch alot of dvds. This will be my only computer. what would you take, MBP or powermac?

inflexion · inflexion #2 (**permalink**)

05-20-2006, 04:54 AM

what are you actually going to use it for? If you dont need a dedicated gfx card (ie not going to use Aperture/Final Cut etc) then get the macbook

mr g5 · mr g5 #3 (**permalink**)

05-20-2006, 09:46 AM

I see most of you guys say to get the macbook pro. I dont use final cut now, but I use photoshop and imovie. How is the 2.0 macbook pro with games?

BlindingLights · BlindingLights #4 (**permalink**)

05-20-2006, 05:56 PM

Hmm... with the MBP for gaming, you'd be fine, and you could set up a Windows Partition to run other games.

Photoshop won't run yet, as it has to run under Rosetta (a PPC chip emulator) and from what I heard runs REALLY slow. iMovie works great.

inflexion #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 12, 2005 Location: /home/sheffield/UK Posts: 1,278 Mac Specs: 12" 1Ghz PB 768Mb 10.4.5 30Gb Video iPod 40Gb 3G iPod 1Gb iPod Shuffle	05-20-2006, 04:54 AM what are you actually going to use it for? If you dont need a dedicated gfx card (ie not going to use Aperture/Final Cut etc) then get the macbook Apple, think different
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Member Since: Jan 15, 2006 Posts: 534 Mac Specs: Mac Pro 2.66GHz Quad, 1GB RAM	05-20-2006, 12:48 AM Next year We will be able to use laptops. Up until now I was planning on getting a powermac 2.3. But now that we will be able to use laptops in school I am thining about the lowest MBP. I would still rather have the powermac because the extra power helps and I watch alot of dvds. This will be my only computer. what would you take, MBP or powermac?
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