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Tetris999 · 08/04/2009 06:52 AM

To start things off, school has been getting pretty hard lately so ive finally decided to buy myself the real thing(laptop). Im not one who looks for gaming on a laptop (maybe some wc3 here and there) so i couldnt really care if it could run crysis or not.

Ive been looking at the macbooks (p.s. they're smexy) and ive decided to get one. But alas im wondering if this is the right way to go? My budget is basically the equivalent of a 13.3 inch macbook (weakest one) is there anything better that i could find?

ive been looking at HP, but all their 13.3 inches always come with some poo poo integrated graphics. I want better than this obviously to take advantage of the openGL drawing in photoshop (photoshop on laptop, w00t~!).

So what are your suggestions? Are there any better laptops for the same price(have to be the same size)? Or should i just go with the macbook?

yawn, so confusing Knock-knock

Assassinator · 08/04/2009 07:22 AM

It depends on whether you value performance more or looks. You'd be able to get much better performance buying something else. As for looks, well, Macs are pretty unique.

Tetris999 Wrote:ive been looking at HP, but all their 13.3 inches always come with some poo poo integrated graphics. I want better than this obviously to take advantage of the openGL drawing in photoshop (photoshop on laptop, w00t~!).

Does photoshop really take that much processing power? (I pretty much never use photoshop, at least not its advanced functions). Whichever way, laptop GPUs are all pretty weak.

feinicks · 08/04/2009 07:30 AM

I disagree about one point. For the price of a Macbook, you can get a very high performing Elitebook (HP) or the new XPS 13.

However, I suggest that you work on both and see which one suits you.

SchmilK · 08/04/2009 08:10 AM

don't waste money on a mac or a dell...get one of these! http://www.mtechlaptops.com/laptop%20compare%20page.htm

Mickey · 08/04/2009 08:21 AM

Assassinator Wrote:It depends on whether you value performance more or looks. You'd be able to get much better performance buying something else. As for looks, well, Macs are pretty unique.

Tetris999 Wrote:ive been looking at HP, but all their 13.3 inches always come with some poo poo integrated graphics. I want better than this obviously to take advantage of the openGL drawing in photoshop (photoshop on laptop, w00t~!).

Does photoshop really take that much processing power? (I pretty much never use photoshop, at least not its advanced functions). Whichever way, laptop GPUs are all pretty weak.

There are many features which are GPU exclusive Sadist

Also photoshop can take use of the GPU to do things like lighting, 3D render much faster and live preview

Azumi · 08/04/2009 01:49 PM

SchmilK Wrote:don't waste money on a mac or a dell...get one of these! http://www.mtechlaptops.com/laptop%20compare%20page.htm

yeah that's exactly what you told me when i asked basically the same question... funny thing is is that im pretty dumb and LOVE the look of that aluminum mac and that's probably what im gonna get... i too could careless about gameing on it... maybe run some NOT emulators or whatever and yeah... here apple, have another $2000 LOL....

listen to schmilk if you want to save money

Assassinator · 08/04/2009 06:02 PM

Mickey Wrote:
Assassinator Wrote:It depends on whether you value performance more or looks. You'd be able to get much better performance buying something else. As for looks, well, Macs are pretty unique.

Tetris999 Wrote:ive been looking at HP, but all their 13.3 inches always come with some poo poo integrated graphics. I want better than this obviously to take advantage of the openGL drawing in photoshop (photoshop on laptop, w00t~!).

Does photoshop really take that much processing power? (I pretty much never use photoshop, at least not its advanced functions). Whichever way, laptop GPUs are all pretty weak.

There are many features which are GPU exclusive Also photoshop can take use of the GPU to do things like lighting, 3D render much faster and live preview

Looking at how weaksauce your general laptop GPU is, you'd probabl be able to render much faster using CPU. As for the exclusive features... Meh.

Chroma · 08/04/2009 10:49 PM

The white 13.3 inch Macbook is the best value you can get with a Macbook. It has the NVidia 9400M, and 2GB RAM stock. It's $999, I believe, but I think you can get it for as low as $799 if you shop around and get some rebates :)

Mickey · 08/04/2009 10:59 PM

Assassinator Wrote:
Mickey Wrote:
Assassinator Wrote:It depends on whether you value performance more or looks. You'd be able to get much better performance buying something else. As for looks, well, Macs are pretty unique.

Tetris999 Wrote:ive been looking at HP, but all their 13.3 inches always come with some poo poo integrated graphics. I want better than this obviously to take advantage of the openGL drawing in photoshop (photoshop on laptop, w00t~!).

Does photoshop really take that much processing power? (I pretty much never use photoshop, at least not its advanced functions). Whichever way, laptop GPUs are all pretty weak.

There are many features which are GPU exclusive Also photoshop can take use of the GPU to do things like lighting, 3D render much faster and live preview

Looking at how weaksauce your general laptop GPU is, you'd probabl be able to render much faster using CPU. As for the exclusive features... Meh.

NVidia 9400M doesn't seem that weaksauce, also it doesn't use just the GPU, it uses GPU/CPU. but then again mickey doesn't know about computers as much as Assassinator Knock-knock

cR@Zy!NgLi$h · 09/04/2009 01:24 AM

Gamer = PC

Winner = Mac

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