[BC] notebook suggestions

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Hi Willie,

>From around $1000 for the 13" MacBook, to about $2800 for a maxed out whiz-bang do-all 17" MacBook Pro.  Not cheap, in any sense, but my loaded 17" Pro was less than the loaded 15" IBM R32 cost 4 years ago.  It's certainly worthwhile if it's your only machine and you want to do everything from design to audio and video production...  Apple has a nice suite of stuff bundled in (movie creation, DVD authoring, web authoring, photo editing, etc...).  

This is the basic MacBook feature list:

13.3-inch glossy widescreen (I gotta say, these are great screens...)
1280 x 800 resolution 
1.83GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor 
512MB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, expandable to 2GB 
60GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA hard drive 
Slot-load Combo Drive (DVD-ROM/CD-RW) 
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 with 64MB of DDR2 SDRAM 
Mini-DVI out 
Built-in iSight video camera 
Built-in Gigabit Ethernet 
Built-in AirPort Extreme 
Built-in Bluetooth 2.0+EDR 
Two USB 2.0 ports 
One FireWire 400 port 
Scrolling TrackPad 
Apple Remote 
Mac OS X Tiger 
iLife '06 Suite (iMovie, iWeb, iPhoto, iDVD, GarageBand)

And a place like MacMall (first thing I found on Google) has these "extras":
SAVE $75 via mail-in rebate!* 
GET Parallels Desktop for only $9.99!* 
FREE HP Photo Printer!* 
GET 1GB USB Flash Drive for only $4.99* 
GET a Carrying Case for only $9.99!* 

Apple offers educational discounts and stuff too... 

Keep in mind that these are all dual-processor machines too.  It makes running multiple OS pretty amazing.  Of course if you don't want or need all that stuff, I'm sure lots and lots of people are fine with a $500 Windows machine.  Me?  I'd be fine if I never saw the Windows logo again...

John


>>> <WFIFeng at aol.com> 3/12/2007 5:32 PM >>>
In a message dated 03/12/2007 4:53:04 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
pmoncure at radiosoft.com writes:

> Mac with parallels is awesome:  Now it's a MAC, now it's XP, now it's 
>  Ubuntu, very nice and they all play nicely together. 

That's *impressive*! How much do these "toys" generally run?

Willie...










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