I'm gonna buy new laptop and would be grate if ya gave ur opinion.
the price is between 1000€ - 2400€
What depends are the processor, memory, 3D-card, APPEARANCE, the weight, aso.
And if some1 who really knows about Apple macbooks could give some information why apples are so specially and expensive.
I know about quality and mac OS X but is there anything else...are the components any better ?
I have been looking for one interesting laptop:
- Apple Macbook Pro 15,4" ( unibody, the new one )
-2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
-4GB 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM
-NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT (512MB) + NVIDIA GeForce 9400M (256MB)
-320GB Serial ATA @ 7200
-SuperDrive 8x (DVD±R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
-AppleCare Protection Plan (350€) quarantee for 3 years all over the world)
-iWork 08
Mac OS X Leopard
-Parallels desktop 4 and Windows XP SP3
~2,5kg and 4,5 h battery endurance
TOTAL 2400€
Thats cheap if ya compare to the same laptop from applestrore.. There it is about 3000€ or even more
But is it worth of that?
Can i get some other laptop with about same quality?
I am no computer whizz myself so i cant really help u out here, but all i suggest really is if u gonna pay that amount for a laptop u might aswell get a proper computer, atleast u will be able to upgrade and whatever unlike a laptop, plus most laptops are absolutly useless for gamin, but if u are just gettin this for word programs or office stuff then go right ahead.
It might help if you explain your reasoning to buy a Mac. As you have the dual boot of leopard and xp, I wonder, do you really need a Mac or is there a specific need for it that you have.
hmm DDR3 is fine, ive never even heard of Nvidia M extension on names
it looks fine by me, butof course i havent used it yet, and it doesnt look too bad for gaming either, if i just find out what that M means maybe ill g9ive ya a straigth answer
sry i dont have much time to answer now but one big reason that i havent found from PCs.
Apple is light to carry and it has long lasting battery 5h to use it wherever.
I like the mac OS X too.. at least more than windows vista which seems to be in all new PCs.
But oc i havent locked that apple yet. If ya know some other PC with good features.
The bigest problem i have found is that there is no PC with good 3D card and long lasting battery.
In that apple there is 2 x 3D cards inside it ( one for playing and one for using to make the battery last longer )
buy an apple only if u'r ready to pay for a lot of BS.
the best thing is that there are no many viruses for Mac OS...
It all depends on what u want to do with it.
I do architectural 3d drawing and other graphics work and my choice will be a 15.4" brand laptop
with a lot of graphics ( I was surprised to find something good at HP for 800$..)
Good luck in your choice...u'r ready to spend a lot of money...be careful
You shouldn't have to spend that much money on a laptop with those kind of specs or close to it.
TBH like someone already said if you're gonna blow that much cash you'd be far far better off buying a desktop machine which would probably be cheaper and more powerful too boot.
Battery life is what hampers laptops, in order to try and maximise it the components you see for example a dual core cpu are half as powerful as their desktop counterparts with similar clock speeds, to be blunt I wouldn't buy a laptop at all and if I did it'd be plugged into the wall all the time anyway to get the most out of it (burning 1 dvd can flatten your battery even with newer lithium ion tech and half an hour of gaming will kill it too).
As for the mac vs IBM/pc thing a fair analogy is one someone else coined. A mac is like a supercar, fast, reliable, awe-inspiring but you can only drive it on 10% of the roads. A PC is like a family hatchback, not as fast or flashy as the supercar but you can drive it anywhere. So if your interest lies in gaming forget the mac it's simply not supported well enough and emulators for running windows apps are poor at best (same with linux/unix).
The "M" designation on the video cards means "Mobile" which ALWAYS equals pitiful even compared to budget desktop cards with lower model numbers (you'll probably find an old 7800 or even a 6800 will outclass those two 9600's hands down in a straight fight) and to make matters worse very few, if any, software companies test their products using mobile chipsets meaning if they do happen to work they probably wont work properly even if the model number is listed as supported by the program (if they say 9600 they mean the desktop 9600 not the mobile version).
So unless you absolutely MUST have a laptop as oppose to a desktop machine I'd steer clear of the mac (unless you don't want to play games on it) and shop around more (that amount of money is too much anyway, definitely shop around more). Good luck
iits far less than 1/4 the price and much much muchmore powerful. Buy from the Us if you can, we tend to have much cheaper electronics than europe, especially computer wise.
I have to admit I know nothing of Apple laptops, I do know about PC laptop.
One golden rule in IT still stands:
Consider at first, what you will be mainly using your new computer (desktop/laptop) for. Games, video/graphics editing, just office work, do you need to be mobile?
To be honest: buying a laptop for a lot of money, just because the battery-life will last you 2-3 hours longer is crazy in my view, mate.
Have you owned a laptop before? Prolly not, cause you would know you battery life will degrade eventually and you will put the thing on wallplug any time soon.
Your contradiction here would be, you wanting power AND long battery life.
A laptop will never outrun a desktop. There is no real gaming laptop, just because you put expensive powerful components in, that doesn't make it 'game ready' (even tho all manufacturers will tell you otherwise). Although if it is your aim to play Freelancer with it, you'll be just fine.
I just bought a laptop myself. 1100 euro's. CPU P8400, 3 Gb RAM, Nvidia 9600M. Very silent, I love it. Brandless, just flung together from all sorts of hardware parts, as in built to order.
Your harddrive is a bit faster, still I manage to play FL fine, though I have to say, I run it exclusively. No music, virusscan or whatever.
I didn't buy it for FL only, just need it to work with, which is where dual cpu comes in handy. BUT: for FL you don't need a dual core or quad core. Freelancer was written way before this technology and you would only benefit if you were to (for example) do other heavy-calculative tasks while playing and that is not a good idea anyway.
- If long battery life, your hardware will surely be tuned down. The tradeoff between capacity and consumption. Best capacity will lead to wallplug power, batterylife will lead to downgraded performance. You choose.
- Dual / Quad cores are not useful just for Freelancer, but they ARE for new games! I would buy a desktop for them any time.
- All laptop hardware will be outperformed by the counterparts for normal desktops, with the latter being 40-60% cheaper...
- Have you thought about noiselevels and heat dissipation? If you plan to use this thing for 5-6 hours at a time, you don't want high pitched whining all the time. (An IBM thinkpad I regularly use makes it impossible for me to enjoy DVD's, just because of the drive spinning up and down every 5 seconds, with high pitched sounds to match BRRR!)
I'd say, think what you want to do with it, then enter some good shops and play with them. Stress them, to see what heat comes off, what noise it makes (difficult to judge in a shop, I admit). Don't let the shopguy try to distract you from doing a thorough check.
Read some online user commentaries, then spend the money. In my opinion, you should be able to get better for less, even if you go for a laptop.
Lastly, make sure you check warrantee agreements with the shop and manufacturer!
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