Convince me to not get a Powerbook?

Tommy B · 18 Nov 2006 at 16:24

My parents have offered me a laptop for university. They are prepared to spend a fair bit as I'm giving them my current rig as a family computer.

I really haven't been playing games recently. The fact is I spend most of my time doing things like msn/itunes/internet and work, and I've begin to wonder why I don't just make the transition to a Mac? I also do a lot of video editing as film-making is a hobby of mine.

The only reason I can think of for getting a Windows laptop is the power for games, but I'm not sure if I'll even play much games. What sort of performance would £1600 get me?

In either case, I won't be getting this laptop for a while. March 2007 at the earliest, and so I'm sure a lot of you will simply tell me to wait for Vista and listen to the general feedback on that.

Thoughts?

Tommy B · 18 Nov 2006 at 16:29

For the price of £1600, **** offer the following:

(I appreciate this means I can get better for less, but I'm using **** as a sort of benchmark here)

Intel® CentrinoT Duo Mobiltechnology; Intel® CoreT Duo 2 Prozessor T7400 (2.16 GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 667MHz FSB)
Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition
1024MB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
120GB SATA Hard Drive (5,400rpm)
17" UltraSharpT WUXGA display with TrueLifeT
512MB nVidia® GeForceT 7900 GTX
Integrated 8xDVD+/- RW Drive#
1 Year Euro Collect and Return Service¥

Now to me, that looks awesome, but something tells me it won't be what it's cracked up to be and the laptop version of the 7900GTX will suck.

**** removed because I think they're a competitor, but I'm sure the fact it's 4 letters gives it away.

meghatronic · 18 Nov 2006 at 16:45

Get a powerbook? Bung windows on it...

Dureth · 18 Nov 2006 at 17:14

By March the 8800 mobile chip (whatever its gonna be) will be released with vista and dx10. It will be stonking for games and you should easily be able to get a laptop with a dual core cpu, 2GB RAM and an 8800 based GPU for £1600. I can't see the point in getting a Mac as what will it do that the PC based laptop wont?

Tommy B · 18 Nov 2006 at 17:17

But I do kind of want a "portable" laptop and the power laptops I've seen are enormous.

t31os · 18 Nov 2006 at 17:36

Tommy B said:
Convince me to not get a Powerbook?

Ok, if you get one, it'll come equipped with a bomb and any key will set it off! :eek:

Did it work?

Rroff · 18 Nov 2006 at 17:56

Tommy B said:
For the price of £1600, **** offer the following:

(I appreciate this means I can get better for less, but I'm using **** as a sort of benchmark here)

Intel® CentrinoT Duo Mobiltechnology; Intel® CoreT Duo 2 Prozessor T7400 (2.16 GHz, 4MB L2 Cache, 667MHz FSB)
Genuine Windows® XP Home Edition
1024MB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM
120GB SATA Hard Drive (5,400rpm)
17" UltraSharpT WUXGA display with TrueLifeT
512MB nVidia® GeForceT 7900 GTX
Integrated 8xDVD+/- RW Drive#
1 Year Euro Collect and Return Service¥

Now to me, that looks awesome, but something tells me it won't be what it's cracked up to be and the laptop version of the 7900GTX will suck.

**** removed because I think they're a competitor, but I'm sure the fact it's 4 letters gives it away.

It could be pretty good, awhile back my brother got a 2gig Pentium-M with DDR2 (yes it is a P-M running DDR2) and an ATI x700 GPU laptop and it actually outperformed his desktop rig which on paper should have been 25% faster... infact it even beat my desktop rig at the time by about 5fps and my desktop rig was even faster than his...