I need a laptop. (Page 2 of 2)

That's bullshit! Many people use white _first generation_ Macbooks succesfully to make awesome music. I do and I can add many many plug-ins and have dozens of 24 bit stereo tracks running. I don't really understand where do you need the graphics card power when making music?!? And the Macbooks graphics card can pull this off and much more. I don't really understand what it means 'to run sound editing software and deal with the graphics card pulling memory'. I know it works fine for me and seems to be pulling memory just fine!!! You clearly talked to a person who doesn't have a clue 2 gig is definitely enough for music.

He's right that the white Macbook's (at least first generation, don't know about the recent ones) use shared memory for the graphics card. But it doesn't affect the performance especially with 2gig of ram. And it doesn't take 'a lot' of memory, mere 64mb as default. We are not living in the 90s anymore, todays computers have much more ram than 256mb!

Naaaaaaah! Macbook is a modern computer and can deal with Os X graphical interface! It may take more memory than Windows XP gui (definitely not more than Vista) but it can deal with it easily. And with default 2gb of ram there's absolutely no slowing down because of the interface. And btw. you can turn off most of the animations etc in Os X if you are concerned about the performance loss because of the slick interface (I think the so called 'performance loss' is negligible anyway). Did your boyfriend make music on Os X? I don't think anybody who knows this platform can seriously claim that he can't make music on Mac because the interface is taking so much memory and slowing everything down. It's the first time I hear about it

And just for the kicks, for the first year I had only 1gig of ram on my Macbook. I still made awesome music and played live in the hippest of clubs so there you go!!!

If think you could be surprised how capable these white Maccies are...

But in the end it boils down to personal preference. I'm not  a Mac zealot although I seem to be one, Macs are not without problems either. Still, don't go with the cheapest pc laptop brand!

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gonna check my local pc shop this weekend for one...
possible purchases:

Sony Vaio NS11Z/S (heard/read good things about its build quality)
MSI EX620-040BE
Asus (depending on the model in stock)

800 eur budget MAX.

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who wants to spend all morning configuring the bios or downloading another service pack. Fischer price maybe. But a better thought out invisible tool that gets the job done, for gods sake they even use the same chipsets now. Mac bashing is so 20th centuary.

just as long it runs linux/bsd, the keyboard is durable and has long battery time. any suggestions? i've been wanting to check out those eeepc's. light weight and small size is a good thing aswell.

i've been writing some software for osx now and i'm not that impressed..

write down the error code and post it on here...  Update all of your drivers as well.

lenovo t400/t500

btw vista is fine, dont understand all the hate :<

he writes the truth

if you need more than a couple of minutes configuring bios (unless you are into overclocking) and downloading a service pack (which is 100% automatic). yeah then you should use a mac.

I have. It rocks...