Apple Macbook or Is it really not necessary?
 

Went today with a friend so she can buy it, and i fell in love with it. I always loved mac's interface, i had my xp configured to something similar. They're having a special there for students (discount + free printer + free nano).

I'm thinking about buying a new computer or laptop and then transferring over my documents. Anyone know the easiest way to do this? (My documents folder is about 6-9 gb i believe). And all documents should work on mac, right?

Anyways, what do you guys think about it? Or what do you guys suggest? Obviously I'd have to save up a lot more if a Mac is really necessary (meaning other than the fact that i just like it's interface, i find that it can be very useful to me considering what I do on my computer).

I need something that'll be a lot better on handling multiple applications at once. My typical taskbar consists of the following: Photoshop, Outlook, Firefox (with about 10 tabs), CoreFTP, NotePadd ++ (sometimes with very very very large file), A couple of folders opened, Aim, Msn, RealPlayer. Based on that, what specs in particular should I be looking for? I'm even open to just buying a new cpu and keeping my monitor and stuff if that'll be most affordable/beneficial.

Any advice/comments are welcomed.

You can install a Mac OS on a PC now, so if it's the interface you are looking for, you are in luck.

http://www.osx86project.org/

That's interesting, thanks for that. However I need a whole new CPU or computer all together:

for the "switch" from a PC to a Mac, the action is really simple... you can simply take your hard-drive and put it in your mac if you have a Mac Pro... if you have a iMac, you have to link your PC to your Mac via Ethernet, and you transfer your data...

it is simple as it is... i've done like 25 switch just these last 6 months for clients willing to change to Mac. (remember i'm a Apple Genius)

i have an old Mac Pro at home... 3 years old... 2x 2.5Ghz with 1.5Gigs Ram... and i can work Photoshop CS3 flawlessly, BBEdit with documents like 10 Mb in size, playing iTunes music in FLAC (remember that expensive format), having a webchat discussion with my niece (ya know, girls in teenage are always talking too much), Firefox with 5 to 20 tabs, Adiumx connected to (msn, yahoo, aim, icq, aol, gtalk and some others at the same time - i have a lot of clients), and actually running my webserver (Apache 2 with PHP 5 and Mysql 5... etc!) with something like 5000 hits per min., (with 7 vBulletin boards running full power!)... oh, and my wife use my Power PC to play her games from the iMac terminal... so Wolfenstein ET or Scrabbles are always runing in backtasks...

you can't do that with Windows or anyother PC!... not at the same time at least.. lol

EDIT: and if you continue to need to run some Windows APPS, you can activate Apple BootCamp so your Windows is still alive in your computer... actually on my old 3 years old mac i have Windows Vista™ in the background (SoftPC) running 2 times faster than on a Dell Dimension...

oh.. and most of the great games released lately for PC are also on Mac... and more are to be released on Mac before PC (Starcraft II will be on mac months before on PC!)

^^ Thanks, that seems really cool. I think I'm starting to lean more towards the pc side, just because it's what I'm more used to and have programs for. Thing is, I'm not sure what specs to look for based on what i need it for.

it is simple... with Mac, you do not need specs... compared to PC where you have to compare each component you have to add, the Mac are always bundled with the most powerful specs when you buy it... you can't buy a old mac that will need upgrades... it is always the up-to-date perfs... if the specs change tonight, in the store tomorrow you will have the updated specs... no lame configs with "possible upgrades" when you send the coupon.. lol

actually, if you have an average use of your computer, the latest iMac can handle it... and for now, you will have a rebate on the next OS that is coming this fall... it is easy to check what you can need: http://store.apple.com/ check the type you need, and tada! (oh and you can say hello to my iPhone!)

Hm, a computer that updates it's specs? Interesting...

I wouldn't say that. My 5 year old computer can do all that.

Heh ^^. I'm still confused as to what specs to look for if i decide to go with a pc. How much of each spec would i need to handle everything i do?

Hey gio, what will you be using this set up for? And, what's your price range?