i would scrap out this sentence if i were you. Being cool to carry a MBP? its not being cool, its being different.

My advice to the original poster is : visit a mac center, try out the OSX, play around the expose, love the dashboard, ask more about bootcamp and windows migration. After that , decide your budget and your needs.. theres mac book and mac book pro for you to choose.

Jargon guide : bootcamp is like a boot loader manager which makes your a windows partition in your mac and allows you to install and boot windows. Parallels in the ohter hand is like a emulator of Windows in OS X, allowing you to run windows based application without booting into Windows itself.. but with limited performance.

This post has been edited by onscreen: Dec 4 2006, 05:08 PM

Check it at the product website -> drivers or try the customer support. Also, you can use goggle to find if your product is compatible to mac... type in your model number, brand, Macintosh ... thats how i do my search when i first bought my Mac 4 yrs back.

Ahh something to talk about.

Ok, i prefer matte screen surface since glossy is known as "artificial color screen" It have slightly stronger brightness and low viewing angle. In the other hand, matte screen have wider viewing angle and dimmer screen.

Usually, people dont care about screen surface unless you are a specific type of user who moves around and relies on enviroment lighting alot then glossy is way to go.

Matte surface in the other hand is for those who work long hours on the computer and stares at texts, colors, moving images alot. And this falls on me too. Anyway, what i wrote above is my opinions and opinions / comments that i have asked from my colleagues.

Hope this will roughly know how matte and glossy surface works. Currently my Acer is matte screen while i have an Alienware laptop thats glossy.

ok, time to go step by step.

Sony clear bright must be a display enhancement .. which i am not too into that at all. The screen surface isnt affected.. if i remember correctly.

Its easy to find out the glossy and matte surface which is by the viewing angle. Walk around and look at the screen, matte surface have a reported 176 degrees of viewing angle.. while glossy have way lesser. Maybe the others have other methods to share

My definition of environment lighting is the lighting situation of the place you use the laptop.. is it dim? very bright with spotlights? etc etc...

bah.. buy Quad Mac Pro.. just like me

Open Office is the best.. been using it for 2 yrs now and still loving it.

Easy la, have to obey the rules of LYN forum... i go back to mymug and resume this chat there Since now i have less burden now.. can spam i mymug again