New MacBook Pros

[jeffrey collins]

Re: New MacBook Pros

took me a minute to decode that one.

[Lrn]

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in attempts to sober up and prepar for law school next year, one of the things im gonna do is get a macbook pro, i plan to use mercuryserver as my guide and as my teck support.... question number one... is it easy to get the dual platform thing going on macs? i wan to run windows nt on my mac.. is that possible or do you have to run win xp?

[Lrn]

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the apple site says lepard is out on october... im i right to think thats its a no brainer to wait till it comes out?

[Caley Martin]

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why wait... the MacBook Pro is as good today as it is tomorrow... as far as Windows is concerned you can either run BootCamp or use Parallels (which in the middle of June will be getting a SUBSTANTIAL overhaul with directx and opengl support)

[Caley Martin]

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and I think Leopard will be out a tad bit sooner than October... too conservative

[Kamal]

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Well Leopard will be released with Bootcamp as a part of the OS pre-installed, not sure if its free right now. And yes Lrn waiting for Leopard will be a good idea. Its supposed to be a notable overhaul over Tiger.

[Kamal]

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Since so many of us are considering the move to Apple (including me), thought I'd share this little goody

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=3747

Pros

• Best screen ever, with great brightness thanks to the power saving LEDs
• Iconic and sexy design
• Small perks like slot loading drive, and backlit keyboard
• Variety in ports, including optical audio and DVI
• Built in iSight, an excellent web-cam
• Powerful system, with great standard performance justifying the price

Cons

• No built in media card reader
• Heavy to be carried often
• Only 2 USB ports

Final Conclusions
This is an excellent upgrade to the MacBook Pro, I'm extremely satisfied with it so far. I'm new to Mac computers, new to OS X, but I am one happy switcher. The MBP would be an excellent choice for anyone looking to purchase a performance laptop, or even desktop replacement. Combine that performance with Apple's sexy design, and the MBP is a great purchase.

[miketpoto]

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Well Leopard will be released with Bootcamp as a part of the OS pre-installed, not sure if its free right now. And yes Lrn waiting for Leopard will be a good idea. Its supposed to be a notable overhaul over Tiger.

Bootcamp is a free beta right now.

[Kamal]

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I'd be scared of using a beta with windows vista

[miketpoto]

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I'd be scared of using a beta with windows vista

I didn't say I used it

But at any rate, bootcamp essentially just partitions your HD and burns you a windows drivers CD... pretty minimal.

[Kamal]

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sounds interesting, have you used it yet ? any thoughts / impressions ?

[miketpoto]

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sounds interesting, have you used it yet ? any thoughts / impressions ?

I have used it on several machines at work. It's pretty easy... the annoying party is the actualy windows installation. I haven't used it with vista, only XP pro...

[Lrn]

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was reading some info about my school next year and they dont recomend using macs becasue of soem examination software that is designed for pcs only... do you think thats not gonna be a problem if i run parrelles? not sure what the program consistes of is but im sure its not that complex.... need to email my school and find out. i really dont want a pc

[Kamal]

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no if it loads windows, it will load any windows based software

[jeffrey collins]

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it might be a slightly bad thing that it only has two USB ports....

BUT this also comes with two Firewire ports too. So that kinda balances it all out. And frankly I think i'd rather have the firewire ports than USB.