Sell me on a Mac (laptop or pc)

Nice link, Paul.  It underscores my point.  I tend to buy Macs that are last generation, which makes them on a par with current PCs at the same price.  At my age, a large screen is more important than a touch of speed.

This Friday I am going to FL to help my dad readjust (change apartments from independent living to assisted) after a few medical problems.  He asked me, from the ICU no less, to "Dump that piece of <<offal) and mr a Mac with a big screen" (at 83+ he has macular degeneration and a large screen is tres important to him).

Now that Macs have Intel processors, it is possible to partition our hard drive and play PC games on "one side" while keeping the faster and maclike functions on "the other side.?

you can partition your hard drive to run both operating systems. I had to do it to use auto cad but then i found a patch to make auto cad run on mac. I dont know about doing it for gaming purposes b.c the only game i play online is wow and wow runs on mac.

The factor you should look it is how will buying a mac benefit me?  If all the software you need and use runs on mac buying one is going to be a good idea. Because when you graduate and go to find a job you will already have the skills and experience where someone else may not. Therefore giving you an edge over someone else. In the end it's all about developing skills and marketing yourself so you can get a job.  Personally  I've owned 2 mac laptops and they're very nice. I hoped what i said helped.

I use Wintel machines at school and Macs at home, and given the choice I'll take a Mac any day.  As Paul said, they just work and beautifully at that.  Newer Macs now [finally] have left and right click buttons on their mice, although in keeping with Apple's design excellence, you'd never know it to look at one.  I have a colleague who has partitioned his Mac laptop and can even run citrix on the Windows partition to access our school's network servers.  And I've seen him just log onto the server from the Mac environment also (although perhaps the laptop did switch environments but it was totally seamless).  Even when Microsoft engineers their Mac version of Office, it is much more elegant and intelligent than what they force us to use on a Wintel machine.

As for laptop or pc, my son astutely observed that you can get a whole lot more machine in a desktop than a laptop for the same money.  If you know you won't need to tote it around, that can be a real selling point for a desktop; along with the fact that you can get a much bigger monitor with the money you save. 

I guess in the long run though, you need to assess what programs you need to run and choose the machine that you feel will do that best for you and that you can afford.  For me, that can always be a Mac; I don't envy you the decision.

Dear JoeDios,

I will sell you a macbook pro for 1000 InGame goldz

please see me at marketfaire.

-Lyleandy

I can help you with the gold if you are interested, Joe.  Also the shipping.