Mac book laptop-should i buy one

dhotchin1986

You will never be able to make your mind up... I use PC at work. But Mac at home. But the thing is, they both can do the same. Just PC takes a little longer....

Blacksheep1979

Cerro wrote: »

Maybe in a small business, but you won't ever find a major company using macs - there isn't the infrastructure or support for it. I have never come across any serious company with an IT support based on Macs, there isn't any widespread expert, in-depth knowledge for it either. Companies tend to use two OS systems - Windows (Desktops and Applications Servers) and Unix/Linux (Servers only).

I count three there and alot of financial institutes use linux/unix on their desktops, well all the traders for several large banks do.

motorguy

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

I count three there and alot of financial institutes use linux/unix on their desktops, well all the traders for several large banks do.

Sorry but i worked for one of the top five banks for the last seven years, they dont use linux / unix on their desktops. They may well use systems that have unix back ends, but they are pretty much all windows pc based.

Plus the traders as you describe them make up a very small specific part of a bank, most bank employees are either back end desk jobs, customer facing in branches or answering phones in call centres.

Blacksheep1979

Sorry was talking about merchant banks. And I work for one of the top 5 ones of them and they def do use it.

HelzBelz

Cerro wrote: »

I don't really like this "You can run a virtual session of windows on a mac" - well and good but with a massive performance hit. Virtual PCs/Servers do not run with anything like the same performance as their physical counterparts. Its like saying Intel HT processors are equal to the same amount of physical Intel cores. I could argue you can run OSX through Windows (or any other OS I choose) - but again, you would take a performance hit, even though PC hardware outperforms Macs, it wouldn't really be worth the time and effort.

Actually they do, I can run windows on my Mac (tend not to thoughbas windows annoys me) and it's still faster than hubby's dedicated PC.

The question of which to use is purely on what you want it for, I use mine for Design, Artwork and Image manipulation (can do it, not sure if I can spell it though), so my Macbook pro is what I need, but I also run Microsoft Office on it for my accounts.

And yes all my IT friends do think I'm a daughter of Satan because I don't like the might god that is windows, but they all prefer Linux anyway, and can see why I use a Mac instead.

bigfoot125

Strangled wrote: »

Buy a Macbook, partition the hard drive, and put windoze on it as well......(if you have to) You'll soon see the superior hardware /operating system.
No viruses, spyware...... Nice !!

PS......if you do put windoze on (XP or Vista) you'll need to install antivirus on that partition as well

how easy is this to do and do i need a specific size hard drive.
my main uses are surfing and creating documents i get from work.

Cheers

cheap_boy

Stick to your Sony as using as you are used to using Windows and to change to OS X or something similiar will be a massive learning curve!

wolfman

HelzBelz wrote: »

Actually they do, I can run windows on my Mac (tend not to thoughbas windows annoys me) and it's still faster than hubby's dedicated PC.

But it'll never be as fast compared to if you just ran XP on your MacBook (and not through a virtual machine). Whether you'll be able to see that difference depends upon what you're using it for.


You'll be able to run XP on a virtual machine no problems though on a MacBook, and you won't really notice a huge speed difference. Virtual machines are good to use, although are never the same as running the OS directly. It depends what you'll be using it for and to what level.

Macs provide a nice, out of the box, secure solution. Great for the average user. Windows still has its place though. Vista is a very good product too. I personally choose Linux though

dhotchin1986

If you wait a little bit your new mac will come with Mac OS X Leopard which has Boot Camp built in that allows you to use Windows.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/features/bootcamp.html

mr_flibble

cheap_boy wrote: »

Stick to your Sony as using as you are used to using Windows and to change to OS X or something similiar will be a massive learning curve!

Not really.

We took the plunge in April and got ourself an imac. Very nice it is too. Very easy to use and a pleasent change from windows.

We still have a windows laptop with XP on it and find no problem switching between the two of them.

I haven't installed bootcamp as I don't need to right now. Ofice Mac '04 covers all the basics (got that on the home user program through the NHS for £17.31 - how cool is that!).

Give it a go. After all you can always use boot camp to duel boot into windows for those must have windows only apps / games. No need to faff about with virtual PC software. Needless to say you do need a full version of vista / xp.

As Mrs Doyle would say .....

.... ahh go on, go on, go on, .............

Kel.