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redspear on 23 February 2009
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Impulsivity said:
I would second bitmap's urging against the new MBP atm. If you want a new computer I would recomend the macbook currently, or waiting, or the 17 inch version (which is pretty nice). Waiting would be my 1st choice though given the new smaller chip dye with better performance revisions soon to arrive.

In fact it's really a bad time to buy any core 2 or old style quad core system. The i7 is just so superior its rediculous.

As a quick example programs that ran on my core 2 duo macbook pro (mid 2008 version) used up around 70-80% of processor power at times in Vista (which is a processor hog). Doing the exact same things on the i7 computer I bought the processor load is about 15% tops. I have never once seen my processor load going above 30% even playing Crysis or running 15 programs at once. The i7 is quite amazing and buying any computer without it is pointless atm.

If I had to buy a laptop today I would get a refurbished macbook air for 999 dollars and then get a gaming desktop seperatly, but that's just me :D.

Also do watch pirates of Silicon Valley, for one thing the Steve Balmer they have is SPOT ON. For another it really shows the genesis of Windows well. Microsoft promises to make Office, so they get a few pre release macs. They proceed to copy it wholesale and release "windows" in asia first before a release in the US. There's a great scene near the end where Steve Jobs bellows "you lied to me" and Gates equivocates just like he always does.

Quite a bit of bit of "Pirates of Silicon Valley" is fabricated. At least I now know you are Mac Fanboy though. The personalities may be right for most of the people involved with the exception of Jobs.

First all modern OS's stole from Xerox including Apple, MS, IBM, and so forth.  Secondly the majority of Macs I have run have actually been slower when running similiar programs on similiarly specced machines.

I do use both Macs and Windows though and there are htings I really like about Macs but hey if you want to waste your money on a 999 Mac notebook go rigth ahead.