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sYs73m
I'm not going to do much gaming, if at all, on my laptop. For the most part, it'll consist of;
e-Mail
Web browsing and forum posting
Video editing
Word processing (taking full advantage of iLife and iWork)
Watching DVDs (can I play BlueRay on this, or does the option even exist?)
You know, stuff like that. It's something to use at work so I don't have to use this piece of crap they force us to use, and a MacBook would be really nice to have for the five hours a night of downtime that I have.
Do I need to worry about the MacBook getting overly hot doing any of the above tasks? Remove gaming completey, from the equation.
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GoGoGodzilla
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sYs73m
No, don't apologize! Thanks for all the information, it's making this process all the more easier. I've loved every minute I've spent on the Macs at the store.
This Sunday, I'm probably going to make the purchase. I'm excited.
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146497
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Aqhat
Well, I have very limited experience with Mac other then what my sister has been through. Her keyboard was malfunctioning on the Mac book that she had and she pretty much had to go through hell to get a tech support person who had any idea as to how to help her. She finally got it replaced but that took quite some time as well.
My problem with Mac is the price. I compared a Mac to my machine (one that I built myself)
I paid around 1300 for my desktop and a comparable Mac was around $3400. And I don't give a rip about the "it just works" crap either as the machine that I built has been running absolutely flawlessly for over a year.
Considering Macs and PCs run on the same hardware now, I'll go with Mac when Steve Jobs gets off of his thumbs and lets me build my own instead of paying triple the cost of an entire machine just to get a different OS.
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kicklucky
My Power Mac G5 is a bit old, and while everything is still viable to today's standards, the video card is a bit lacking. So if you have the opportunity to shell out the extra green to get an upgraded one, do so, and other than that, I love it.
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145650
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Aqhat
But can you run Leopard?
It's pretty impossible to compare a Mac to a PC when you're just talking about Hardware.
Because if you ask 90 percent of Mac owners, they wouldn't know anything about the hardware in their machine. But they can tell you that they can open 4 programs at once and their OS won't freeze.
No, I can't run Leopard, or OS-X or any other Mac crap, at least not natively, and that's my point. I'll start running a Mac OS when I can place it on hardware that I built myself.
As to running 4 programs at once, that's no amazing ordeal either. I'm currently running WoW, two instances of Firefox, Outlook, and Windows Media Player with no problem at all. In fact, I can easily run much more then what I have going on, so basically, if you can't run 4 programs at once on any machine then it sucks and you should toss it in the garbage.
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Aqhat
l2realmachine and Windows runs like a dream.... pre-Vista
Post Vista works fine too. Been running it since release and every problem I've had was extremely minor and easy to fix, of course, I do that for a living but the fact remains, Vista is a solid OS as long as you're not running it on archaic hardware.
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