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Ok, I'll admit it. I want an Apple. 
I've been a PC user since being introduced to computers way back when.
My question now is, what specs should I be looking at?
First off, I'm set on buying a laptop. That leaves the MacBook and the Pro.
In PC usage, I'm quite a heavy user. Usually I'll have an instant messenger client, iTunes, and the internet open eternally. On top of this, I have photoshop open at times as well.
My main question is whether 2 gigs of RAM will cover me on a 2.33ghz processor?
I've been a PC user since being introduced to computers way back when.
My question now is, what specs should I be looking at?
First off, I'm set on buying a laptop. That leaves the MacBook and the Pro.
In PC usage, I'm quite a heavy user. Usually I'll have an instant messenger client, iTunes, and the internet open eternally. On top of this, I have photoshop open at times as well.
My main question is whether 2 gigs of RAM will cover me on a 2.33ghz processor?
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Originally Posted by 'Stein 
In PC usage, I'm quite a heavy user. Usually I'll have an instant messenger client, iTunes, and the internet open eternally. On top of this, I have photoshop open at times as well.
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My main question is whether 2 gigs of RAM will cover me on a 2.33ghz processor?
So now that leaves you with several things:
- Do you ever play games? MacBooks suck at gaming, so get the MacBook Pro if you want to do any real gaming.
- How big do you want your screen to be? The MacBook's only come in 13" models, whereas MacBook Pro comes in 15" and 17".
- Intel Core 2 Duos are inside both MacBooks/MacBook Pros, so unless you need really, really fast clock speeds, the MacBook's 1.8 Ghz Core 2 Duos should be perfectly fine.
"Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal."
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Do you ever play games? MacBooks suck at gaming, so get the MacBook Pro if you want to do any real gaming.
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How big do you want your screen to be? The MacBook's only come in 13" models, whereas MacBook Pro comes in 15" and 17".
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Intel Core 2 Duos are inside both MacBooks/MacBook Pros, so unless you need really, really fast clock speeds, the MacBook's 1.8 Ghz Core 2 Duos should be perfectly fine.
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Processor speed isn't quite as critical at this point, because multitasking is more about RAM than about your processor's clock speed.
Joeprogrammer, thanks for the response.
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I see you're using photoshop ... are you going to be an aperture user also?
Go for the max! I keep kicking myself in the tail for not maxing out. My band invested in Logic Pro and Protools, Final Cut Pro, and I use Aperture, Illustrator and Photoshop CS2, I went from 1g , 2gs and I'll be getting more .. we have a Macbook Pro for gigs and a imac 24'' We do alot of preproduction work so when we go to the main studio we have our ideas set and we use up less studio time. Get a big HD also .. When we were recording we ate up a min of 30gig for a couple of songs a day.
Go for the max! I keep kicking myself in the tail for not maxing out. My band invested in Logic Pro and Protools, Final Cut Pro, and I use Aperture, Illustrator and Photoshop CS2, I went from 1g , 2gs and I'll be getting more .. we have a Macbook Pro for gigs and a imac 24'' We do alot of preproduction work so when we go to the main studio we have our ideas set and we use up less studio time. Get a big HD also .. When we were recording we ate up a min of 30gig for a couple of songs a day.
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I see you're using photoshop ... are you going to be an aperture user also?
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Go for the max! I keep kicking myself in the tail for not maxing out.
Thanks Junya for the insight!
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I also try to keep a current PC functional. There is a few programs I use that are not available for my PPC macs. On the new macs I have parallel/win xp on one of the g4's i have iemulator and win98 and 2000. I know what you mean .. I got my personal ibook from my employer .. prior to that i was running a dell laptop and macmini with a KVM switch. The macbook pro and the imac "24 were collective purchases .. the band decided not to pay ourselves for a couple of gigs and we bought the computers and firewire mixing heads...
Looks like its gonna be a tool for work ... you know good car mechnics and carpenters get the best tools so you deserve good tools also
Looks like its gonna be a tool for work ... you know good car mechnics and carpenters get the best tools so you deserve good tools also
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Well remember with Bootcamp, you can natively dual boot any Intel mac with Mac OS X and Windows XP.
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Stein and Dani,
A friend of mine at the other park system would be telling us "Luke the force" ... she's a biologist but she has a collateral consolidation or duties so she works on the computers at her park .. She always ask me to leave the dark side.
we have so many choices ... decisions, decisions, iemulator, virtual PC, Parallel, and Bootcamp. It has my head spinnning ////
A friend of mine at the other park system would be telling us "Luke the force" ... she's a biologist but she has a collateral consolidation or duties so she works on the computers at her park .. She always ask me to leave the dark side.
we have so many choices ... decisions, decisions, iemulator, virtual PC, Parallel, and Bootcamp. It has my head spinnning ////
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Originally Posted by Junyah
we have so many choices ... decisions, decisions, iemulator, virtual PC, Parallel, and Bootcamp. It has my head spinnning ////
Hope this helps
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