Fun Stuff > CLIKC
Windows XP on an intel mac
est:
exactly. Also, this is a plus for Mac-owners to the same degree that dual-booting into Windows a plus for Linux users. You can run OSX for all your day-to-day apps, etc, but then when you want to play certain games that might not be released on OSX yet you can fire up Windows and play.
In fact, I have a sneaking suspicion that if things keep going the way that they are going I may end up caving in and buying a Macbook Pro at some point in the future & setting up a dual-boot system on it. I've been looking into getting a laptop for a long dang time now, but nothing on the PC side has looked at sexy or well-made as the Powerbooks, and now the Macbooks :)
edscoble:
heh, I'd wait for the rumoured 13.3inch widescreen MacBook (Pro), as I like a smaller laptop with a bigger resolution, the 12inch iBook and PowerBook are being very 2003 nowadays.
seriously modern 12inch laptop now has Intel Centrino, 1280x800, 128mb graphic card, 1GB of ram 60GB and dual layer DVD-R, for only £700!
let hope the small MacBook will be worth spending on.
est:
Yeah, it's easy to pick up a decent-spec'ed Windows laptop, but everything looks so goddamn ugly. I'm just crossing my fingers that ASUS gets some decent gear together soon, as their laptops are the closest to good-looking I've seen that aren't super-expensive custom-made VoodooPC laptops (Dell and Alienware look plasticky and tacky to me)
edscoble:
--- Quote from: est ---Yeah, it's easy to pick up a decent-spec'ed Windows laptop, but everything looks so goddamn ugly. I'm just crossing my fingers that ASUS gets some decent gear together soon, as their laptops are the closest to good-looking I've seen that aren't super-expensive custom-made VoodooPC laptops (Dell and Alienware look plasticky and tacky to me)
--- End quote ---
did you know that some of the ASUS laptop are actually the same design as the PowerBook 15inch/17inch? they're the company who make the body of the PowerBook/iBook for Apple, here's some example:
Asus W2Vc (17inch PowerBook design)
Asus W1Vc (15inch PowerBook design)
thought some of the Sony laptop, especially the small one are pretty nice looking.
est:
Hey, they are kind of cool. I suspect that they aren't available out here though, because I've been getting Asus catalogues and looking into them recently (as they are the better-looking brand to my eye) and I haven't noticed anything like that, unfortunately.
The Sony ones do look all shiny and so forth, but I have a few problems with Sony gear:
1. The price. Sony are seriously up themselves if they think I'm going to pay 150% of normal price just because it's got the word "Sony" there on the laptop.
2. The super-shiny screen. I know that a lot of people like that whole glassy LCD screen dealie, but for me it's a no-go. They are glary as all hell, so I can't stand using them.
3. I'd be giving money to Sony. At the moment I really, really, really hate Sony. In my opinion their attitude towards their customer is very arrogant and shitty, and has been for a while. They seem to act from a position of "well, this is how it is, fuck you". I don't like that.
But thanks, I'll start looking into the Asus laptops and see if there's any way to get that kind of model out here.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version