I'm getting a laptop, and I'm too stupid to tell if the one I like is any good

[Subotan]

Just to clarify, I'd pick the 15" model with the 280M graphics card, this one, were I buying for myself.

Cool

Well, to be honest, if I were buying for myself I'd wait and see what the Jan 27th refresh of the Macbook Pro line brought, then I'd take the plunge. Apple makes a nice, nice laptop, and the ability to boot seamlessly into OS X and Windows would be very nice. Plus, Apple and Intel have some sort of mutual beard-soaping thing where Apple gets the newest mobile chips first, so some sort of really hot-to-trot i5 mobile is prolly going to show up real soon.

I could never bring myself to be a Mac user, so that's out of the question.

[Fragony]

I could never bring myself to be a Mac user, so that's out of the question.

Why is that, it runs windows much better and you have a much better looking/feeling (yes feeling I love that keyboard and touchpad) machine to run it on. The latest line are also equipped with a solid graphical card have yet to see a hick-up. Awesome gaming machine means poor working machine, if you also want to use it for university I would get a good desktop and get a cheap wordpad for your notes.

[Beskar]

You need faster processor speeds. I believe Sims 3 for example needed 2.4 Dual Core as minimum, for example. The speeds in the laptops listed look quite far below that.

[pevergreen]

You need faster processor speeds. I believe Sims 3 for example needed 2.4 Dual Core as minimum, for example. The speeds in the laptops listed look quite far below that.

Hmmm Dual vs Quad

[Beskar]

Why is that, it runs windows much better and you have a much better looking/feeling (yes feeling I love that keyboard and touchpad) machine to run it on. The latest line are also equipped with a solid graphical card have yet to see a hick-up. Awesome gaming machine means poor working machine, if you also want to use it for university I would get a good desktop and get a cheap wordpad for your notes.

But then, he needs to pay far more money in excess just for a machine branded "Mac".

[Fragony]

Apple is a truly annoying company with all that guru-bull and their adds make me want to kill something, but imho they are worth their price as it are just excellent laptops. You pay a little bit more but when you translate that into the time you save using it it's a perfectly fine choice.

[Subotan]

Why is that, it runs windows much better and you have a much better looking/feeling (yes feeling I love that keyboard and touchpad) machine to run it on. The latest line are also equipped with a solid graphical card have yet to see a hick-up. Awesome gaming machine means poor working machine, if you also want to use it for university I would get a good desktop and get a cheap wordpad for your notes.

Because:

But then, he needs to pay far more money in excess just for a machine branded "Mac".

And also, I don't play the latest, graphically intense games., so It'll probably do fine.

You need faster processor speeds. I believe Sims 3 for example needed 2.4 Dual Core as minimum, for example. The speeds in the laptops listed look quite far below that.

And I would be playing Sims 3...why?

Apple is a truly annoying company with all that guru-bull and their adds make me want to kill something, but imho they are worth their price as it are just excellent laptops. You pay a little bit more but when you translate that into the time you save using it it's a perfectly fine choice.

Maybe, but I just don't like them. I have an iPod to be fair, as they are the best MP3 players on the market, but the actual Macs? No way.

[Beskar]

And I would be playing Sims 3...why?

That wasn't the point... it was an example I remembered from the top of my head, due to my friend having the game and owning a laptop and said about the trouble he had.

Replace "Sims 3" with "Generic New Game".

[Subotan]

Like I said, I don't really play brand spanking new games, so it wouldn't be that much of a problem.