Juan Altieri Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 i'm thinking about buy a MBP (mac book pro) core2duo 2.33 laptop, to use (by xp bootcamp) 3d max, and mac adobe applications, anyone have some experience on this? (i never have a mac before) to choose against a similar pc toshiba....what do you mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted February 8, 2007 Share Posted February 8, 2007 I have the 17" Core Duo model and I'm quite happy with it, though I seldom use it in Windows anymore. The Core2 Duo model is supposed to have a few improvements including being a bit cooler. Ernest got a Toshiba Core Duo about the same time because it allowed more RAM (I think the newer Macs max out at 3GB, but mine only supports 2GB). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macpod Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 CS2 for mac have not gone universal binary yet. ive heard its slower than a G4. the x1600 was good value a year ago but is way behind mainstream GPUs now. i would wait until the next major GPU upgrade if you dont need it right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juan Altieri Posted February 9, 2007 Author Share Posted February 9, 2007 I have the 17" Core Duo model and I'm quite happy with it, though I seldom use it in Windows anymore. The Core2 Duo model is supposed to have a few improvements including being a bit cooler. Ernest got a Toshiba Core Duo about the same time because it allowed more RAM (I think the newer Macs max out at 3GB, but mine only supports 2GB). thanks ajlynn, the new mac pb, supports 3gb of ram, it's strange i hear you can put 4gb of ram and the os only takes 3gb (i don't know what happens with a 64 bits version of windows in the future)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted February 9, 2007 Share Posted February 9, 2007 I bet with the next OSX release (which will be 64-bit) they release a firmware patch and 4GB is supported. Don't quote me on that I'm not sure about the current scheme where they give you 1x1GB and 1x2GB - I thought that for dual-channel RAM you were supposed to use matched pairs... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldo lanzi Posted March 6, 2007 Share Posted March 6, 2007 hi juan i think its a very good option , core2duo 2,33 will be pretty fast i buyed a hp dv9000 with core 2 duo 2,0 and its 2 times faster than my old p4 3,2 , i dont know how bootcamp work but i didn't see any complain abouth that so may be its working good, macs have a design plus that make the price a bit high ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AJLynn Posted March 7, 2007 Share Posted March 7, 2007 I just installed Parallels. This is awesome. Still no real video acceleration, but it has a feature called "Coherence" that lets you put a Windows task bar on the Mac screen and run Windows apps in MacOS windows - no need to run a Windows desktop in a window. And that works with Windows 2000 (and almost everybody has an extra 2000 license sitting around). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juan Altieri Posted March 9, 2007 Author Share Posted March 9, 2007 I just installed Parallels. This is awesome. Still no real video acceleration, but it has a feature called "Coherence" that lets you put a Windows task bar on the Mac screen and run Windows apps in MacOS windows - no need to run a Windows desktop in a window. And that works with Windows 2000 (and almost everybody has an extra 2000 license sitting around). ajlynn, thanks for your interesting!, btw i have a xp license to use... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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