i am an architecture student who uses an imac and windows together. I bought a Toshiba Satellite laptop for 6K something and after 2 years the mother board and graphic card got burnt. I was pratically going boinkers cause i was rushing for my final project. so i took my imac and installed bootcamp running on Windows XP. So far so good. no crashes and runs very smoothly but lately its running out of memory space.

i want to get a new laptop since i'm continuing my degree soon. after my bad experience with my toshiba, i don't really trust normal windows based laptops(the time for them to check is like forever) anymore since my imac saved my ass last minute. i am thinking on getting the new MBP with i7 but i heard there are overheating issues with it.

the softwares i'm gonna be using is AutoCAD, Rhino, 3dsmax, Sketchup and adobe.

any suggestions? cause a lot of people are telling me to go for DELL or thinkpads.

EDIT:
i'm currently using 1st generation imac (white) that came with the Tiger OS.

This post has been edited by eeoyr: Jul 5 2010, 05:36 PM

Well i have been reading the reviews online regarding the overheat issues from websites that does new gadget product testings. so i went to the mac dealer shop to ask for more informations. some are saying it has overheat problems and some are saying its not true unless i use heavy flash programmes.

my sister bought a DELL XPS for normal usage and since then she's been repairing it non-stop. that's why i question the quality of it.
i was just wondering is it worth to invest on a high-end MBP cause i am planning to customise it to 8GB, 500GB 7200rpm if i'm getting it. don't want to end-up with great dissapointment again

and i run bootcamp on imac so i think it won't be a problem since desktops are always more powerful than laptops. so i am worried that it can't handle my workload like how a desktop would.



This post has been edited by eeoyr: Jun 28 2010, 05:52 PM

hmm. i'm really crackin' my head on this. anyway thanks for the suggestions!
will look into it =)

Thanks for sharing your toshiba experience cause apparently i'm being accused as the laptop spoiler
(that is why i am being a bit paranoid on getting a reliable laptop )

are you using parallels, vmware or bootcamp? the only hesitation on me from getting a mbp is the autoCAD part. cause it will be quite troublesome to have to switch back and forth when i'm working on 3D and ammending the plans (maybe it only applies to 3dsmax cause its one hecka polyline crazee )

the guy from the mac store suggests that i use bootcamp(for the workload) instead of parallels or vmware.

btw i tried downloading the mac version of autoCAD but too bad it keeps on crashing so can't really tell how is it. wonder when is it gonna get released...

oh...sorry, i don't know exactly what OS it runs. but i'm using leopard OS. not sure about all these.
you can try searching for Sledgehammer autocad though. don't know whether its just a preview version or what cause it keeps on crashing.