Help me find a good laptop.

[me003]

I'm looking into laptops, and I think I want a macbook, so that I could run both windows and mac on it.
But I want to make sure it can run fatty programs and games,

and will be reliable for all schoolwork.

So yea, help me pick one out before I go to the mac store tomorrow to look around.

[guff]

gee thanks for giving us a price range to work with

[Daphnia]

macbook...
...run fatty programs and games

good luck

[russell]

macbooks are fine pieces of machinery. "fatty" programs and games won't be so hot with integrated graphics and 13" screen, though, so have fun with that.

I'd wait a month or so, because Apple is rumoured to either revamp the current MBs/MPBs, or introduce a new aluminum MB.

[guff]

macbooks are fine pieces of machinery. "fatty" programs and games won't be so hot with integrated graphics and 13" screen, though, so have fun with that.

nothing wrong with a 13" screen

[russell]

nothing wrong with a 13" screen

opinion I guess; personally I'd honestly rather just reform my lifestyle than have to use a 13" laptop as my main computer

15 is minimum for me but still painful, 24 is getting there

[guff]

opinion I guess; personally I'd honestly rather just reform my lifestyle than have to use a 13" laptop as my main computer

15 is minimum for me but still painful, 24 is getting there

get your eyes checked

resolution is far more important than physical size

[me003]

Okay, so yea. By fatty programs and games, I mean I want to be able to run Reason, and games like Warhammer and crysis, which is probably the reason I'm now trying to get a laptop, because I have a month of warhammer that I cant play until I upgrade.
Its requirements are 2.5 GHz processor and 1 gig ram and 128 mb video card and 15 gig of harddrive space.
so if it's possible to get that with a macbook cool, but if not let me know.

I have $1800 in my bank, I'm not trying to spend it all, but that's what I can work with.

Guff I'm kind of looking at you for this one.

[Nate]

I mean I want to be able to run Reason, and games like Warhammer and crysis,

lol

have fun

9800 GX2's have trouble running crysis, let alone a puny laptop trying to run it

[me003]

lol

have fun

9800 GX2's have trouble running crysis, let alone a puny laptop trying to run it

ohkay than forget that then. I just have a copy and it would be nice to play.

Sorry I'm a little lost with this business. I never got into PC gaming and so I never really needed to upgrade until now. So I don't really know what I'm looking for except that I would like to run windows and mac, so that I can run Reason and FL Studio.

But I'm wondering if I should get a Dell laptop because my computer is a mac so then I could just work in between computers when needed.