Perhaps someone can answer this so I may order!

[bcjames]

Hey,

My windows laptop has just died (a week away from finishing uni! ), but im back next year for an msc so my mam has kindly offered to get me a new laptop!

Ive always wanted an apple, so checked out the middle macbook, for £780 (£800 budget) i get:

* 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
* 2GB memory
* 160GB hard drive1
* Double-layer SuperDrive

Which to me seems pretty solid.

Anyway, I have the issue that my uni will only supply the windows version of SPSS. I have an xp home cd so could do dual boot, but is there a way to get win SPSS running directly under osx?

Next question: Im interested in Garageband having played around with it in the store on the big imac! It would do all I need to replace my out-dated music software. I just wonder if anyone could supply a full screen screenshot of both that and of Word. Many hours will be spent looking at that so I wouldnt mind seeing how it looks at that res.

Im off to look some more at the show-off thread up top now!

Edit: thought of another question! Will the apple wireless mouse coonect to the mb without a reciever usb dongle thing?

 

[bcjames]

Ah thanks Justin. That sounds perfect!

Any version of word would do as as far as I know, they are all pretty much the same aside a few cosmetics. Depending on what the uni gets hold of, depends on what version I'll be running.

 

[bcjames]

Oh I thought i was on the higher ed site when I got that price. Even better!

 

[bcjames]

I tried one out in the shop and thought it was okay. I have a 20" PC too, though I use laptops primarily. The macbook is still 1280 800 thought isnt it? Thats the same as the 15" Dell i've also looked at sans scren upgrade.

I cant really justify the price increase to an MB pro for the larger screen anyway unless I maybe sell off my desktop. Hmm, options