MacBook Pro
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Hello - I am thinking of buying a MacBook pro. I keep changing my mind though. One minute I think the £1,500 is a solid investment. Then I think for £1,000 I could buy another laptop.
Somebody please tell me what they think of the pros and cons of spending that extra £1,000.
Main tasks I will use it for is
Football Manager
Photoshop
MS Office (Mainly Access, Excel, PowerPoint and Word)
Music Production
I do also have an Ipad and Iphone.
Somebody please tell me what they think of the pros and cons of spending that extra £1,000.
Main tasks I will use it for is
Football Manager
Photoshop
MS Office (Mainly Access, Excel, PowerPoint and Word)
Music Production
I do also have an Ipad and Iphone.
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If you don't have Mac compatible versions then that is extra you will need to spend on top of the price of the Macbook.
Could you not use LibreOffice Base instead of Access?
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/?nodetect
There are numerous avenues for making this relatively straightforward.
Just check the T&Cs of any software you're using (if going the legal route...) as some companies limit, or don't support at all, software loaded on a Win partition on a Mac.
Personally, for those uses, I'd stick with a PC.
If you were doing much more video or graphic work then it'd be a close one. Obviously, it's always down to user preference.
Boot camp is very easy - but it only supports Windows 7.
It will partition the HD, download the drivers and puts them on a USB stick (or CD/DVD if you have a drive).
I had installed an SSD in my MacBook Pro last summer but only did a boot camp install yesterday (need direct access to the hardware and I don't have a Windows laptop nowadays).
no, you can run Windows XP as well, and no doubt Vista if you really wanted to.
Filemaker Pro is a database program for the Mac, gets very good reviews too.
Not with the latest version of Bootcamp that comes with Mountain Lion.
still possible if you want to.
plenty of tutorials that will guide you thru the process.
Only the bottom of the range MBP has 4Gb of ram, all the rest have 8Gb so XP would kind of wasted on the hardware - is the dual GPU switching set up even supported by XP?
Seen the tutorials, lots of people saying it doesnt work on 2012 MBP i5 and i7's they get the blue screen of death, it can be done via Parallels though.
But come on your not going to spent £1500 on a Mac and then put on an 11 year old operating system.
funnily enough, i have XP but only in Vmware.
i does what i need if i ever need to drop into windows (which is very rare).
i'd say though that if windows is important then you're not gonna be buying a mac anyway (or shouldn't be).
I choose to use XP as I still have a valid license for it
So be in no doubt, as you don't need it to run certain specialist apps, the real reason to go for a MacBook Pro is purely to have the qudos of owning one.
Technically, you expect an 'investment' to increase in value; a computer of any description will depreciate heavily.
Dell do some very nice Ultrabooks which are almost as desirable as a MBP for a lot less money. There were some nice ones on Dell Outlet last week.
if you want to run logic then you then a mac of some sort.
for music production it's pretty much close to industry standard.
the OP did mention music production in the origina post.
You could probably knock the starting price down to £350-£400...
But not which package. I've played about with a few packages on both platforms in the past.
What about Pro Tools? That runs on PC and Mac.
pro tools, yeah
but walk into any studio or look on stage and it'll be macs and logic you'll see 9 times out of 10.
I don't understand why people buy Macs to run Windows. It seems daft to me. The Apple Store guys would have a cow if you only ran Windows on your Mac and you took it to the Genius Bar to be fixed