Re: Macbook for Windows looping

["Stephen Goodman" <spgoodman@earthlight.net>]

One shouldn't forget the price differences, as they're significant - as 
well 
as the cost of getting Apple-certed repairs.

This from Best Buy, for instance:

       Macbook (MB061LL/A):      $ 1018
MacBook Pro (MA610LL):             1842
MacBook Pro (MA897LL/A):       $ 2399
MacBook Pro PC (MA869LL/A)  $ 2780

Compare this with a high-end high-profile manufacturer (of which there is 
more than one in the non-Mac world), an HP 2315EA goes for $1125.  That's 
a 
sizable difference.

Mind you, all the prices above are higher than regular due to the Retail 
Factor, and I haven't added up the cost of building your own PC notebook 
either.  But just a cautionary note regarding the prices - and how one 
doesn't need to think much to figure out what to spend a free thousand on, 
should the PC option be used.

Of course if one just wants OSX, well, so be it.

S.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "miles ward" <miles932@gmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 8 August, 2007 07:49 AM
Subject: Re: Macbook for Windows looping


> I'm doing it, Macbook is a stellar XP and Vista laptop.  Only downside
> is the integrated video (only an issue if trying to sync to video for
> example), which is neatly resolved by getting a macbook pro instead :)
> -Miles
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> On 8/7/07, Michael Peters <mp@mpeters.de> wrote:
>> sorry for bringing this up ... I'm sure this topic has already been
>> discussed to death here but I haven't followed it ... I was so focused 
>on
>> planning to get a decent Windows notebook (provided that I really get 
>> this
>> job that I'm waiting for) that I never earnestly thought about a Mac, 
>but
>> now a friend said that a Macbook could also run Windows XP along with 
>its
>> own system, and that one could simply switch between systems. So would a
>> Macbook with 2 GB and Windows be good enough to run Ableton Live and
>> Moebius, a sampler, and some VST plugins, or would it have substantial
>> disadvantages compared to a Dell or similar notebook?
>>
>> -Michael
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> ---Miles Ward
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