Only $50 that pretty darn good. think its time.

Im a bit of a snow leopard fan now. Once you go mac, you never go back

sounds like windows have got a good and stable OS, might try 64bit 7 since vista 64 won't work on my pc :S vista = fail

my mate that works for apple got a brand new macbook pro with SL on it and did a test, found that if you fire up win7 on it instead, you get like 3x faster everything, even his fuckin internet sped up. coz macs just use normal pc hardware, and the dudes making the firmware only really cater for upgrades to windows, mac os's just dont utilize the gear right. im gonna grab a 13"mbp with carbonfibre casing this week and chuck win7 on it and leave SL on it empty in case i grab finalcut.

let me know how it goes Tre. Might give it a shot too

i dont know if i've used snow leopard but im pretty sure mac os X is snow leopard right? Cant say I liked it....stupid single button mouse...why waste one hand for a pointer and the left hand has to do all the work.

Why buy a mac and put windows on it...that just makes an over priced PC...which it is already anyway, they dont even use Apple built CPU's or mobo's or anything anymore.

Im lost....it used to be that macs were fast but needed huge amounts of ram compared to a PC while a PC would be slow to load windows but didnt need extra grunt with RAM and such, so once you were up and running it would be smooth enough.

Thats what made MAC's useful in video and music editing, they had heaps of grunt with extra RAM and shit so overall real time processing was fast but now the grounds are the same.

Not having a go at your choice though charlie, good for you trying something different.

^^ we're talking laptops, which are a fair bit harder to mix and match parts with, and with laptops its either dell or apple, and in my experience macbookpros are much better laptops. You put windows on it because as i said before, drivers dont get updated for mac os' as often as windows so windows will make everything work better.


and once youve got windows on the motherfucker you can game =)

ok, cool, I understand that but it's still PC parts inside the mac's of any form.

^^^^ +1

I have not even paid for xp yet.. let alone ME and 2000 i do however own a full copy of windows 98 !!!

i have 5 mqchines running 7 and after nearly 18 months can safely say that the beta 7077 is the fastest..

When u used windows vista i was bsoding an average of 3-15 times a day. I had viruses, malware, spyware and bloatware that i simply couldnt get rid of. Went into the win7 beta and all was sweet. Currently using build 7100 (RC) so id say its definately DEFINATELY worth buying.

ive got a macbookpro with win7. runs way faster and smoother then mac os x.

win 7 is probz one of the most stable and fastest os's out yet.

wow. cheers for the mac input there Syler. I'm a bit sketchy switching the OS system of the macbookpro. I'll do it when uni is over and fiddle with it

altho it may depend on the specs as mine are probably different to yours however.

getting mine from uni, $50