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Make me a believer - macbook or pro?
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<blockquote data-quote="qwik3r" data-source="post: 468044" data-attributes="member: 36607"><p>wow thanks for all the info guys, the only thing I am weary about is if i do go with a macbook that it won't be powerful enough for CS3 and that I am limited to 2gb max (correct me if I am wrong) and it is not the santa rosa set of intel chips, right? I usually want the biggest and best, but I am always up for a bargain, however If i was truly going for best bang for my buck I would get a dell vostro or something but I have already expressed I am not overly interested in buying another windows laptop.</p><p></p><p>With that being said I could use some more opinions on the pro vs the mac book for my intentions. Keep in mind I have about 40-50 firefox tabs open at a time. My primary interest in a new laptop would not be to replace my PC, its just something that if its small enough I can take it with me to work (which the mac book is) and use it in bed to catch up on ebook reading and blogs. I hate lugging around my gateway 400sd4 probably 10lb piece of outdated crap. My GF's dell is a joy (not sure what model) and this mac book seems even lighter! </p><p></p><p>I just want to make sure I am making the right decision going for a macbook instead of a pro, I think emphasized "photoshop" to the mac genius's a bit too much which made them immediately tell me to get the pro and the pro with the nvidia chipset which is why I have it in my head that I must hav e a pro or I will feel like a whimp. The only video conversion that I may ever need to do on the road would be like a 100mb file into flash video for a client, thats pretty much it.</p><p></p><p>Right now I have a custom built rig, AMD Operton 165 denmark 1.8ghz dual core overclocked to 2.25ghz on a dfi lanparty nf4 with 2gb of ram. It still feels too slow sometimes, but then again what I would be doing on the laptop wouldn't be the same as what I would be doing on my pc, for instance right now I have about 100 firefox tabs open between 2 browsers, converting a dvd, utorrent and a few other things in the background. I wouldn't have utorrent on the laptop unless I needed something asap and I wouldn't be converting dvds with it either and I probably wouldn't have 1/3 the amount of processes running on the mac. </p><p></p><p>** hum, still need some convincing, but you guys have stearing me towards the macbook, i'd love to save the money honestly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="qwik3r, post: 468044, member: 36607"] wow thanks for all the info guys, the only thing I am weary about is if i do go with a macbook that it won't be powerful enough for CS3 and that I am limited to 2gb max (correct me if I am wrong) and it is not the santa rosa set of intel chips, right? I usually want the biggest and best, but I am always up for a bargain, however If i was truly going for best bang for my buck I would get a dell vostro or something but I have already expressed I am not overly interested in buying another windows laptop. With that being said I could use some more opinions on the pro vs the mac book for my intentions. Keep in mind I have about 40-50 firefox tabs open at a time. My primary interest in a new laptop would not be to replace my PC, its just something that if its small enough I can take it with me to work (which the mac book is) and use it in bed to catch up on ebook reading and blogs. I hate lugging around my gateway 400sd4 probably 10lb piece of outdated crap. My GF's dell is a joy (not sure what model) and this mac book seems even lighter! I just want to make sure I am making the right decision going for a macbook instead of a pro, I think emphasized "photoshop" to the mac genius's a bit too much which made them immediately tell me to get the pro and the pro with the nvidia chipset which is why I have it in my head that I must hav e a pro or I will feel like a whimp. The only video conversion that I may ever need to do on the road would be like a 100mb file into flash video for a client, thats pretty much it. Right now I have a custom built rig, AMD Operton 165 denmark 1.8ghz dual core overclocked to 2.25ghz on a dfi lanparty nf4 with 2gb of ram. It still feels too slow sometimes, but then again what I would be doing on the laptop wouldn't be the same as what I would be doing on my pc, for instance right now I have about 100 firefox tabs open between 2 browsers, converting a dvd, utorrent and a few other things in the background. I wouldn't have utorrent on the laptop unless I needed something asap and I wouldn't be converting dvds with it either and I probably wouldn't have 1/3 the amount of processes running on the mac. ** hum, still need some convincing, but you guys have stearing me towards the macbook, i'd love to save the money honestly. [/QUOTE]
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