Laptop Gurus Lend Me Your Wisdom

Scenario: You have $2200 Cdn. to spend on a new laptop (taxes not included).

What do you get? I've finally gotten to college and my Dad will finally allow me to spend my hard earned cash on a laptop, as he sees it as a school purchase.

I've been eyeing the MacBook Pro for a while now, it seems to have good juice for the buck. Being that it's a laptop, I tell myself that I probably won't be using it for gaming, but then i'd just be kidding myself.

I've been on this same old 1.4 ghz, 512, radeon 9600xt (which i forked out $300 for at the time) and it has been obsolete for some time now.

So now I have the opportunity to go all out on a laptop and thats where you fine people come in.

What would you do in my situation, you have a crappy old PC and roughly (give or take) $2200 to spend on a new laptop.

What would you get? I've been looking at Windows based notebooks for a while now and I have yet to find anything that measures up to the MacBook Pro in my mind. I don't really know a whole lot about Mac's - but i'm sure I could pick it up fairly quickly. Plus I now know that they can run Windows with BootCamp.

So please give me some assistance.

Should I spend my cash on a Vista Ultimate enabled gaming laptop or the MacBook Pro? Will theMacBook Pro running XP or Vista run games as well as the pc? I'm diggin the Core 2 Duo thing here, none of the windows laptops I see for around the same price-ish appear to have the same power as the mac.

http://store.apple.com/1-800-MY-APPLE/WebObjects/canadastore.woa/wa/RSLID?mco=2BF7FB2D&nclm=MacBookPro

I think i'm leaning towards the first 15" one there. I know the next one is a fairly big step up in terms of gaming but I don't see myself spending $3000 with tax.

Anyway I think you get what I mean. If you know of any deals or good system out right now, please feel free to give me your opinion. From what i've seen, the MacBook Pro seems to have the best bang for the buck.

Also a few side questions for Mac Users.

1) How often does apple release new laptops? Is the MacBook Pro listed there fairly new or will it be replaced soon?

2) When does the new Mac OS (i think its OS X 10.5) come out?

3) When does iLife 07' come out?

4) When they do get released, do you think they will become the standard for these laptops, or will the prices go up?

Sorry to rant, i've been suspended for 17 days and needed to get this out.

Thanks,

BTW, would a $2200 laptop be considered a high end? Or am I in a mid range level?

roughly $1950

basically my question is, can i get a better gaming laptop than the macbook pro for that price range.

where and what 

roughly $1950

 

basically my question is, can i get a better gaming laptop than the macbook pro for that price range.

 

where and what

BobSacamento

oh and one more quesiton, would one of them macbook pros be able to run vista?

says it has a radeon x1600 in it. is that dx10 enabled? are there ANY dx10 enabled cards out there now?

can it run CRYSIS? AHHH 

from what i heard, you generally tend to spend about 50% more on a mac than the equivalent hardware pc. because mac has all of its bells and whistles, and iLife. and because its customized and runs stable right.

doesnt appear to be the case here, im not seeing any laptops anywhere with a processor that good in it.

so i should be able to get a significantly more powerful windows based laptop for that price right? but i've yet to find one.

thats where you people come in.

oh and one more quesiton, would one of them macbook pros be able to run vista?

 

says it has a radeon x1600 in it. is that dx10 enabled? are there ANY dx10 enabled cards out there now?

 

can it run CRYSIS? AHHH

BobSacamento

oh wow.

nice find. if i can get a windows one for this price think of what i can get for $2200.

keep on lookin. you will be rewarded handsomely. 

yeah see even this one has a core 2 duo but its only running at 1.6. the macboook was like 2.2 or something.

but this does havef a 17 inch screen, the macbook 17" was like 3 grand.

please tell me if you come across anything else. 

oh wow.

 

nice find. if i can get a windows one for this price think of what i can get for $2200.

 

keep on lookin. you will be rewarded handsomely.

BobSacamento

what do you mean? this says $1200

thats $1355 canadian

still $1000 less.

now how is that possible. AND is has bluray drives.

must be a catch....

is vista even better at this point for games?

i thought it had a bunch of compatibility issues

these are some f'in good deals man

look at this one

http://www.alienware.com/product_detail_pages/Aurora_m9700/aurora-m_overview.aspx?SysCode=PC-LT-AURORA-M-9700&SubCode=SKU-DEFAULT 

compare it to this

http://www.alienware.com/product_detail_pages/Aurora_m9700/aurora-m_overview.aspx?SysCode=PC-LT-AURORA-M-9700&SubCode=SKU-DEFAULT 

and tell me which you think is better 

compare it to this

 

 

http://www.alienware.com/product_detail_pages/Aurora_m9700/aurora-m_overview.aspx?SysCode=PC-LT-AURORA-M-9700&SubCode=SKU-DEFAULT

 

and tell me which you think is better

BobSacamento

Stick the 2.2 ghz, and the 2 gigs of ram, and its set.

i thought vista ultimate neede dx10 to run the features

these ones you can buy with it