Buying a MacBook?

chango70

@remus said:

If your want something to do some serious work (3d stuff, video editing etc.) id say go for a PC, if you want something to do the emails on, a bit of image processing (and perhaps even a little bit of modelling, given the new graphics chips theyve got in them) id go for a mac.

remus,

with all due respect, yours is the opinion of someone who does not know what he is talking about. you must be kidding! macs have been known for their high performance, especially heavy duty 3D stuff and video editing. just check the specs of the macbook pros released in the last 2 years. with them the big macpros (the cheese graters) are no longer needed for profesional work unless you are editing movies. and the latest models come with 512 mb nvidia cards and 4gb ram out of the box! a macbook book coupled with a large screen is a fantastic setup.

regards.

Now now lets not get into a Mac vs PC spat here. I know what Remus meant when he said PC are better. If you are truely professional about 3D then usually you'd go for a workstation class graphics card like NVIDIA Quadro FX 2700M Graphics with 512MB2 dedicated memory or NVIDIA Quadro FX 3700M Graphics with 1GB2 dedicated memory at top end. Like in this Dell Precision M6400 Mobile Workstation here. http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/workstation-precision-m6400?c=uk&cs=ukbsdt1&l=en&s=bsd. The OpenGL drivers in those graphics card are optimized and updated regularly. The problem with Macbook Pro line of Notebooks is that they don't give you a choice. And Nvidia 9600M GT is a GAMES CARD with limited OpenGL support! So if I had the money, I wouldn't consider a Mac for professional work.

geh4evr

Thanks for that link, Jing certainly looks like a handy app.