Macbookpro

[pingwing]

Right so tomorrow is the big day when im going to the apple store in town and get my HE discounted Macbookpro. I must say im pretty excited!! (first ever mac after 2 years of eyeing up my mates one) But i need to decide on one important bit, is the 9600gt really worth the extra cash in the 15 inch one?

And in the same vein, how much better is the 17 inch one again? (ie is it worth the extra £250?)

Basically its my complete pc replacement, so both laptop and desktop, to do some uni work and play games on

 

[pingwing]

Ah cheers, im mainly planning on playing left 4 dead, civ4 and a bit of dod source (so im really asking if the 9400 can do smoke textures properly? (my current laptop just cant and it makes most games fall apart).

Yeah I only do politics which is mostly reading and typing so I dont think i could genuinly justify the 17 inch (though ill have a look in store anyway just in case in real life it looks too good to be true). Plus if i get the adaptor i can plug it into my monitor for a bigger screen anyway

I doubt portability will be too much of an issue, my mates older 15inch pro seems to cause him minimal problems either way...

Ah thanks! I love going there (though usually its just to eye up the macbooks...)

 

[pingwing]

Yeah iv just gotten back from the apple store

Well i got the 15 inch pro with the the secondary 9600, the display port to dvi adaptor and a 16gig touch for the rebate! (note extra smiley faces as im very excited!!)

Only one question though, do they automatically register apple care for you?

Anyway im off to pre order snow-leopard and set this up!

Oh yeah and bennie the discount is a few hundred quid, heres the thread with the prices http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18020062 and you get apple care (3 years) for about £60 (as well as £140 off an ipod) which i cant complain at!

One more thing,

 

[pingwing]

Not to hog the thread or anything, but that feature will be available in Snow Leopard.

Oooo will it! probably one of the tiny things iv noticed in my day of learning osx...

Got to hand it to Bes, hes right, i do love it! Cant belive iv gone so long with out one. (its pretty hard to put into words whats so awesome about it all together but it just is!)

Just got to try out boot camp at some point...