Hi, went to Regent St. store and saw a Macbook and was instantly hooked!
Need a laptop for Uni in september and after struggling to find a decent windows based one, decided to go mac (especially with the availablilty of this 'boot camp' app i've seen), plus was a long time RISC OS user so not averse to different OSs!
Need to know the answer to a few questions first though.
1) been checking here and other sites and they mention problems of overheating, 'mooing' and discolouration of the macbook? Have these problems been solved?
2) I ideally want the 2.0ghz with 80GB and 1GB, i've seen this in the Meadowhall branch for £1009 and i've been told i can get student discount so makes sense to buy from a shop to me. Is this a good model choice?
3) Will Football Manager 2006 work on it?!
4) I've got a PSP and a SonyErriccson W810i, both of which are formatted with FAT32 Memory Stick Duo cards. Assuming these are plugged in via USB, can the mac read/write to them or will there be problems?
5) I've got a 4g Color iPod, will this work/will it need to be reformatted for the mac? There's no music from ITMS on there, it's all from CDs so don't know the steps required there.
6) When the new Mac OS X is released, will there be any way to keep Boot Camp or will it expire? (or is there an existing expiration date)
7) Finally, is it worth waiting on until i buy the machine? I've read things about new processors or the new OS and don't know if now is a good time to buy?
Sorry for the long list but just want to make sure it's the machine for me before i make the switch!
Cheers
Joe
Need a laptop for Uni in september and after struggling to find a decent windows based one, decided to go mac (especially with the availablilty of this 'boot camp' app i've seen), plus was a long time RISC OS user so not averse to different OSs!
Need to know the answer to a few questions first though.
1) been checking here and other sites and they mention problems of overheating, 'mooing' and discolouration of the macbook? Have these problems been solved?
2) I ideally want the 2.0ghz with 80GB and 1GB, i've seen this in the Meadowhall branch for £1009 and i've been told i can get student discount so makes sense to buy from a shop to me. Is this a good model choice?
3) Will Football Manager 2006 work on it?!
4) I've got a PSP and a SonyErriccson W810i, both of which are formatted with FAT32 Memory Stick Duo cards. Assuming these are plugged in via USB, can the mac read/write to them or will there be problems?
5) I've got a 4g Color iPod, will this work/will it need to be reformatted for the mac? There's no music from ITMS on there, it's all from CDs so don't know the steps required there.
6) When the new Mac OS X is released, will there be any way to keep Boot Camp or will it expire? (or is there an existing expiration date)
7) Finally, is it worth waiting on until i buy the machine? I've read things about new processors or the new OS and don't know if now is a good time to buy?
Sorry for the long list but just want to make sure it's the machine for me before i make the switch!
Cheers
Joe