I am 14 and planning to get a mac at Christmas. I was wondering what would be the best for what I need. I like to play games on my current PC (I have a 3 year old Dell Dimension 8400 with a 256 MB GeForce 6800 and a 3.6 GHz Pentium 4), and I do some light stuff like word processing, video/photo editing, and some occasional web browsing. My Questions are as follows:
1. Is the MacBook Pro or the iMac capable of running DX10?
2. I know the GMA950 integrated graphics on the macbook is supposed to only be capable of running graphis unintensive, non-3D games such as bejeweled 2, but I saw a video on youtube of someone playing Madden 08, which on apple's website, says can not be played with the GMA950, but he was playing it under XP (I'm assuming using boot camp). Would the macbook actually be capable of playing EA's newest releases?
3.Would you recommend iWork '08 or Microsoft Office 2008?
4.Would the Core 2 Duo at 2.16 GHz be about the same speed as my Pentium 4 at 3.6GHz?
5. Is iPhoto as good or better than Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 for Windows?
Any and all opinions/comments would be helpful
Thanks
1. Is the MacBook Pro or the iMac capable of running DX10?
2. I know the GMA950 integrated graphics on the macbook is supposed to only be capable of running graphis unintensive, non-3D games such as bejeweled 2, but I saw a video on youtube of someone playing Madden 08, which on apple's website, says can not be played with the GMA950, but he was playing it under XP (I'm assuming using boot camp). Would the macbook actually be capable of playing EA's newest releases?
3.Would you recommend iWork '08 or Microsoft Office 2008?
4.Would the Core 2 Duo at 2.16 GHz be about the same speed as my Pentium 4 at 3.6GHz?
5. Is iPhoto as good or better than Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 for Windows?
Any and all opinions/comments would be helpful
Thanks