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Well I'm in the market for a laptop....or well looking into one for the next school year. In the past month I learned my dad received orders (has to move for those no it in the military) to Cape Canaveral Florida! Its all cool except we like in Illinois now and I go to school in Missouri. This means traveling back and forth during the school year will be by plane and the summer of course I will make a long drive back.
Anyways I'm a computer guy who is really...well, into computers. I've never been a huge fan of notebooks just because a desktop has so much more power for the dollar but traveling back and forth 3-4 times a year will be a pain with a huge cpu and 20" widescreen monitor.
Right now I have a dell 3.2GHz, 1 gig of ram, Radeon X600 256m graphics card (which I know isn't crazy or anything but better than integrated) and I guess thats it. A pretty nice setup so I really wana get something nice out of a notebook and not the cheapest thing to get the job done. What I NEED out of it is probably my biggest issue.
This notebook really is about necessity but for the price I want something I'm really going to like. I was reading an article about vista and the new apple commercials when I read a quote from a ceo or someone at apple that said "why upgrade to vista when you can upgrade past it" It stuck to me because it s a good opportunity to see what the other side is like and it honstly feels more like me. I'm into all the things macs are known for liek music, pictures, movies.
So how does it look? Maybe not so good for me? O BTW I'm looking at the MAC book pro 15" 2.16GHz. I think I get an education discount so around $1800. It kills me a bit because I know what I could get for the some price if I went windows but hey I'm liking the idea of a mac. Thanks for any help because like I said I'm brand new to the world of apple computers.
Anyways I'm a computer guy who is really...well, into computers. I've never been a huge fan of notebooks just because a desktop has so much more power for the dollar but traveling back and forth 3-4 times a year will be a pain with a huge cpu and 20" widescreen monitor.
Right now I have a dell 3.2GHz, 1 gig of ram, Radeon X600 256m graphics card (which I know isn't crazy or anything but better than integrated) and I guess thats it. A pretty nice setup so I really wana get something nice out of a notebook and not the cheapest thing to get the job done. What I NEED out of it is probably my biggest issue.
- I am a computer science major which means I write Win32 programs with programs like textpad (not notepad) and have to send them through a drop box to turn in. I'm mainly doing things like C++, Java, more I'm sure I'm just a freshman. Is this even possible with a mac? I mean I know they are getting a lot better with mac to windows transitions but this will need to run on a windows machine!? Just shoots red flags everywhere!
- Next I own office 2002 and really don't have the cash for much else than a laptop. I mean by time I pay for it and buy any extras I'll be wiped clean! Dropping another $XXX on software can't happen. I do have access through the military for Office 2003 Student edition fo a pretty nice discount since its cheap to begin with but I'm thinking there's just a MS office for mac and I can't install the windows version on there.
- Other than that I have an ipod and love music. I've always liked the way apple makes computers its just been a cost factor and a parent factor with my dad being a little biased towards MS. I mean a cool guy and all but if you start a debate about OS's he turns into the windows guy from the apple commercials!
This notebook really is about necessity but for the price I want something I'm really going to like. I was reading an article about vista and the new apple commercials when I read a quote from a ceo or someone at apple that said "why upgrade to vista when you can upgrade past it" It stuck to me because it s a good opportunity to see what the other side is like and it honstly feels more like me. I'm into all the things macs are known for liek music, pictures, movies.
So how does it look? Maybe not so good for me? O BTW I'm looking at the MAC book pro 15" 2.16GHz. I think I get an education discount so around $1800. It kills me a bit because I know what I could get for the some price if I went windows but hey I'm liking the idea of a mac. Thanks for any help because like I said I'm brand new to the world of apple computers.