woundering if i was going to buy a mac laptop which one is a good one i want aleast a 17" screen  i belive ...never i have i own a Mac ..so i really dont know ..well right now they seem to be all Intell so can i run a dual boot ? still want to play my games and i want to use it as a media center for the home store all me dvds music and pics on a externale hhd and then just hook it up when am at home ..will use it for work alot all so .so would office work on it?



God   did you read that ....lol. sorry but i anit re typing...any help would be great



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What is your reason for wanting a MAC?
You can dual-boot OS X and Windows XP: BOOTCAMP.

So you will want a macbook pro then, thats the only 17in notebook they have. If you wanted one with the best screen get the 15.4" because they have the LED backlit display and the color reproduction is perfect.

There are a few ways to run windows on a mac, (one actually makes it the fastest windows notebook you can buy  ) Their is bootcamp, parallels, and VM Ware Fusion. Bootcamp you have to reboot the computer to get into windows, but you get full benefit of the hardware so you would want to run your games in this.

Parallels and fusion allow you to run windows as you are running OS X. And it is actually extremely fast its hard to tell you are running a VM. You can't play games this way because you don't get the full benefit of the graphics card right now. They are getting better they do have some graphics card support but you still don't get the full card. I use parallels and love it because of the coherence mode which allows Windows apps to work right along with mac apps, and you can drag and drop files in between each OS.

You don't have to run media center, macs come with front row, and does all of media center (except TV) and does most of it better.

Office does work, there is already office 2004 for it, and 2008 is coming out for it very soon. But get iWork which is apples office with it. And its actually just as good if not better, and it reads and writes all MS office formats. I had to use excel alot and i switched to apples numbers (there excel) and no one can tell that i'm not using excel.

If you do go for the mac, you get a notebook that can run every app you want, and is secure, super fast, and looks damn good

There new OS 10.5 Leopard is quite possible the best OS ever, and just about everyone that uses it agrees.

And keep in mind once you get one mac you usually end up getting another one. 

i have the 13 inch mac book... can't afford the pro version...

already have parallels

monster processing speed... bigger though

i only have an 80GB hard drive but no hang ups... I'm a Mac convert 

could someone post links to freeware sites for mac os
and sites that are like 9down.com and related
 
as my niece just got an mac
and I myself am not a mac person

tonbug89108@hotmail.com is her email - directly

also - who do you set the netbios name on a mac


thanks

http://www.versiontracker.com/macosx/ is probably the best for freeware. One thing that every mac user should install is flip4mac, so they can then play all the WMV videos around.

And you do not need to set a netbios on a mac