the macbooks I don't think have graphic cards which could make running cubase or pro-tools or other such software... well... impossible.

You can't run photoshop on them either.

I'm on a Macbook right now, and the display is in fact not dark. I use Photoshop on this, and have watched DVDs, etc.

It's a 2 GHz Intel Core Duo, not Pro.

And damn this Safari to hell!

No need to use Safari--why not Firefox?

I really think there is nothing you can do on a PC that you can't do on a Mac (unless maybe you are a hacker, or serious computer gamer). Also, the new Macs can run Windows anyway, so really there is no reason not to get one. As long as you give it a while, making the switch feels really good. Man, Steve Jobs should give me one.

gretz wrote:make sure you get one of the pro ones

the macbooks I don't think have graphic cards which could make running cubase or pro-tools or other such software... well... impossible.

You can't run photoshop on them either.

I almost but one of the macbooks until i noticed that only the Pro had the graphics card

this is hogwash. Adobe Photoshop has not been made "native" to run on the Mactel processors at this juncture, but Photoshop does work, and it is quite usable. And Digidicks has an Intel update for Mactels to run ProTools.

skatingbasser wrote:Very interesting, and it comes at the perfect time! Why do you like the Mac layout more?

As a primary PC user I see the Mac's dock as Start Button and toolbar in one which is just too much to have go on for me, but I guess it's just foreign. And the File, Edit, etc. stays with window on a pc... there's no way you can not like that?

For one thing, the File System that Mac OS uses is way more stable and traditional than Windows and NTFS (remember FAT).

Also, being able to use finder as a standard program in terms of window management and keyboard commands is pretty nice. Pressing apple+N to open a file browser, for instance, or apple+w to close it, and using apple+` to cycle open windows.

Also, expose.

I suppose that the file system argument doesn't necessarily hold if you're on some variety of linux and/or unix