I've always been one for the thought that a laptop should be small, none of this crazy 17"-19"+ screen sizes. anyway, I'm off to uni soon and I've looking for a 'computer solution'. for ease and hopefully usability I'm looking at getting a laptop, although my home computer will need upgrading some time in the near future. anyway, i've been looking at laptops for about the past 6th months now and I'm no closer to deciding what i want and where/what is the best deal. anyway first off as i will be using it as my main computer at uni i'm not sure whether its worth getting one with a small screen as a larger screen is alot nicer to work with. having said that i am going to take my current 19" screen down to use with me Wii (how i will do that is another question, which for some stupid reason is incredibly hard!). although having said that a laptop with a large screen is just a awkward desktop. although again you can get laptop stands to use the screen and attack keyboards etc for added 'comfort'.
anyway, i've had a look at the apple shop and noticed the macbooks have a nice 13" screen. for the past year I've had a friend preach to me how amazing mac os is (hes at the same uni but went a year earlier, doing an ict course). but how compatible is it? most games won't play on it, .exe files won't open on it, most of the software i'm used to using won't work etc etc. a while ago i read an article (i believe here) about a possible compatibility for direct x on mac computers, any news on that? there's loads of pieces of software that allow you to run windows on a mac, but i've never herd good things about them, and i believe allot of them you need a licence for windows. can i connect a mac to my lan at home and copy files from windows? how can you compare a mac to a notebook? you can compare an Intel processor with an Intel processor, but since the OS uses them differently theres no point. is there a way to effectively compare a mac to a pc?
so is it worth going for a mac book? is it worth going for a macbook pro for the extra screen size for watching dvd's? can you connect a dvi or avg screen to a mac? (i was going to check the ports on the store, but as i did it went down for an update).
if not a mac then are the any really good deals about for laptops? with the back to school/uni i would imagine so, but i really don't know what i'm looking for. all the processors have different names. the one that i'm seeing alot is a T5500. how gd is it? how gd is the t710 in comparison? how gd are the compared to a amd 64 3200+?
well that's allot of babble! hope its readable! any help would be greatly appreciated,
anyway, i've had a look at the apple shop and noticed the macbooks have a nice 13" screen. for the past year I've had a friend preach to me how amazing mac os is (hes at the same uni but went a year earlier, doing an ict course). but how compatible is it? most games won't play on it, .exe files won't open on it, most of the software i'm used to using won't work etc etc. a while ago i read an article (i believe here) about a possible compatibility for direct x on mac computers, any news on that? there's loads of pieces of software that allow you to run windows on a mac, but i've never herd good things about them, and i believe allot of them you need a licence for windows. can i connect a mac to my lan at home and copy files from windows? how can you compare a mac to a notebook? you can compare an Intel processor with an Intel processor, but since the OS uses them differently theres no point. is there a way to effectively compare a mac to a pc?
so is it worth going for a mac book? is it worth going for a macbook pro for the extra screen size for watching dvd's? can you connect a dvi or avg screen to a mac? (i was going to check the ports on the store, but as i did it went down for an update).
if not a mac then are the any really good deals about for laptops? with the back to school/uni i would imagine so, but i really don't know what i'm looking for. all the processors have different names. the one that i'm seeing alot is a T5500. how gd is it? how gd is the t710 in comparison? how gd are the compared to a amd 64 3200+?
well that's allot of babble! hope its readable! any help would be greatly appreciated,