Starting Uni in September to do Graphic Design and looking for a laptop. After a couple years at college using iMacs I've come quite fond of OSX and its nifty little features. I also like the idea of being able to have windows and osx running alongside so I still have the best of both worlds.

As MacBooks aren't cheap I'd be looking to go for the bod standard one at £699 (get about £50 off through the education store).

How is windows when run under boot camp? Can you still play light games without much problem? Obviously not expecting to be playing the latest and greatest DX10 games on it.

Anyone got any opinions or advice?

Cheers
Keiran

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Starting Uni in September to do Graphic Design and looking for a laptop. After a couple years at college using iMacs I've come quite fond of OSX and its nifty little features. I also like the idea of being able to have windows and osx running alongside so I still have the best of both worlds.

As MacBooks aren't cheap I'd be looking to go for the bod standard one at £699 (get about £50 off through the education store).

How is windows when run under boot camp? Can you still play light games without much problem? Obviously not expecting to be playing the latest and greatest DX10 games on it.

Anyone got any opinions or advice?

Cheers
Keiran

If you want to run windows on it side by side, stick a copy of XP on.
You could put Vista on but it wont run too smoothly with only 1GB of Ram.

Also not sure about games, but the onboard graphics chip isn't exactly brilliant.

Hmm, a Macbook might not fare to well with games, due to the GMA video thingie. Haven't tried any on my sisters Macbook but the Processor is still really good.

MacBook? Hells Ya! My sister has a 13 (or 11?) inch one and its fantastic. I can't convince her to put windows on it, but I "borrowed" it to a Blender render and it was very fast, better than our Power Mac G5. Games should work, not fantasticly but they should work well.

Macs are also known in the graphics industry for doing fantastic graphic work btw.

I believe my situation is similar to Keirans.
Going to university in less then a month now and need a laptop.
The only reason why I still have a pc is LFS. So will S2 run on the cheapo-Macbook? Already mentioned "games won't run well", but what games are those? I know I will have to use bootcamp, but like I said, that's only for LFS.

Does anyone have experience of LFS running on a Macbook?


Edit: Not Macbook Pro, that is

havent got any experience with newer intel integrated graphics but in general theyre rubbish... properly rubbish

btw you can run osx on any bog standard core2 computer these days if thats what youre after