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About to buy a MacBook Pro and have a couple questions.
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<blockquote data-quote="TheDotEater" data-source="post: 683312" data-attributes="member: 59809"><p>Hello all,</p><p></p><p>I'm getting ready to purchase a macbook pro for college and I had a couple of questions I was hoping you guys could answer before I made my purchase. Any help/information would be greatly appreciated.</p><p></p><p>My first question is about which model I should get. I'm going into Simulation and Digital Entertainment, basically, video game design and animation. So I'm going to be working with a lot of 3d graphics software such as Maya and 3Ds max, so I was wondering if you think it will be worth it to purchase the $2,300 (with my student discount) model which has the 8600M graphics card with 512MB of RAM, or if you think the $1,800 model with only 256MB of RAM would suffice?</p><p></p><p>I should also note that I plan to upgrade to 4GB or RAM and probably the 7200RPM HDD too.</p><p></p><p>That was my main question, but I also had another small question.</p><p></p><p>This question isn't of big concern considering it's not related to the main purpose of buying a macbook pro, but I was still a bit curious. I've been hearing a lot of talk about the Macbook Pro being able to run a lot of PC games such as Half-life 2, portal, Team Fortress and what-not through dual-boot. Some even going as far as to posting <a href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=aSF0sPH555I" target="_blank">videos</a> of themselves playing games on their macbook pro on youtube. I was just wondering if it's really all it's cracked up to be. Can you really play some of the higher-end pc games smoothly on a macbook pro with the 8600M w/ 256MB of RAM? Like I said before, it's not of big concern, however it may be nice to occasionally kick back and play some games while waiting for my next class to start.</p><p></p><p>Once again, thank you all for any help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheDotEater, post: 683312, member: 59809"] Hello all, I'm getting ready to purchase a macbook pro for college and I had a couple of questions I was hoping you guys could answer before I made my purchase. Any help/information would be greatly appreciated. My first question is about which model I should get. I'm going into Simulation and Digital Entertainment, basically, video game design and animation. So I'm going to be working with a lot of 3d graphics software such as Maya and 3Ds max, so I was wondering if you think it will be worth it to purchase the $2,300 (with my student discount) model which has the 8600M graphics card with 512MB of RAM, or if you think the $1,800 model with only 256MB of RAM would suffice? I should also note that I plan to upgrade to 4GB or RAM and probably the 7200RPM HDD too. That was my main question, but I also had another small question. This question isn't of big concern considering it's not related to the main purpose of buying a macbook pro, but I was still a bit curious. I've been hearing a lot of talk about the Macbook Pro being able to run a lot of PC games such as Half-life 2, portal, Team Fortress and what-not through dual-boot. Some even going as far as to posting [URL="http://youtube.com/watch?v=aSF0sPH555I"]videos[/URL] of themselves playing games on their macbook pro on youtube. I was just wondering if it's really all it's cracked up to be. Can you really play some of the higher-end pc games smoothly on a macbook pro with the 8600M w/ 256MB of RAM? Like I said before, it's not of big concern, however it may be nice to occasionally kick back and play some games while waiting for my next class to start. Once again, thank you all for any help. [/QUOTE]
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