Hi,

I am thinking of getting a new notebook and is seriously considering the powerbook.

My question is that whether the asking price of >rm9k worth it for a notebook. Heard that it can run dual OS which is why I am seriously considering it. How stable is it coz running Leopard and Vista together is really cool and will help me a lot. Can it run all the windows program smoothly as in a PC?

Thanks in advance.

Cheers

I think you meant the Macbook Pro....no more powerbook in apple's line of notebooks...

@joey70i,
The >RM9k MacBook Pro is quite high end. Do u need such high end specs?

If ur looking to run your programs on a Windows platform, Y bother with OSX? U should ask urself what u really need.

its stable alright , and y wud u 1 to buy a mac to run windows =X

btw, you still need windows. at least for some of the applications.

Hmm, why you need a mid-range mbp? go for the low end, Rm7499 version. mid-range version is just got higher vram (graphic card ram) and bigger hdd space

@allvin,
Huh? MBP considered low end ah?!

i think he meant low end of the MBP range.

Thanks.....yes I still need to run some windows prog from time to time...

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Added on December 19, 2007, 3:12 pmSince I sometimes do graphic stuff and was considering the macbook pro and since now can run dual os so much the better......but can it run all the windows prog?

This post has been edited by joey70i: Dec 19 2007, 03:12 PM

It should run all the programs as long as you boot to Vista.

Vista runs faster on Mac, no?

I read some reviews that Vista is fastest on the Macbook Pro.

Yes i also read that somewhere in the net but not sure if its true

PC World said that if I'm not mistaken

yeah PC World said that

yeah, I even linked to it here.

This post has been edited by xaw5126: Dec 19 2007, 04:31 PM

my fren runs his vista ultimate on a normal macbook and it is dam fast ..

i mean low end mbp la. high end mbp is 17" punya. Btw, it is too huge. Handle 17" before. Not suit me

This post has been edited by allvin: Dec 19 2007, 04:50 PM

The 17' is too big and costs a bomb.....so still not sure which 15' to get.

If you have the cash, nothing wrong with the higher end MBP. But it would come to a waste if you don't need the extra power...

well, you just ask yourself this simple question.
"Do you play games (those high end games )? or Do you need those extra vram?"

If you don't, then just choose the lower end version. Save few thousand and use few hundred to max up the ram

This post has been edited by allvin: Dec 19 2007, 05:43 PM

few hundred? I'd say less than 300 to max out the ram, unless you are going for Apple rams... lol