I'm still paying a recently bought legal copy of Crysis. Don't like DRM but not really concerned about the install limit at this point. If I win the lottery and buy a new top shelf Alienware Laptop to install Warhead on, I'll worry about it then. For now, It's not an issue for me.
I dunno. I've used Wireless Keyboards, expensive keyboards, and the keyboard that came with my PC. I don't see the need, but if anyone can give me a good reason to try one, I'll give it a go!
No. It makes the Intel one more expensive. Not necessarily better. I've switched between the platforms over the years but now am back with AMD where I belong. What it boils down to is AMD making better use of the resources available in the Athlox 64 in my opinion. This is why AMD 64 processors can outperform intel at lower clock speeds. AMD is better in my opinion.
I know what you mean. It took many years to get me to let go of Quake 3 Arena and Unreal Tournament. I still can't let go of Halo CE. Jedi Knight Jedi Academy ran smooth as silk on Vista. The only game it wouldn't run didn't matter (GTR1). It isn't perfect, but what's the alternative? Apple? LOL!!!!!
All kidding aside Worf101, I see your point. If I'd attempted upgrading a rig I built with Vista and harware and sofware weren't compatible, I'd have gone back to XP too. When I got my Compaq Presario SR5113WM in November 07, I ran into trouble as soon as I booted it up. Norton Internet Security and Vista battled it out to decide who's Firewall would be activated. After removing Norton in favor of AVG and cleaning off all the crapware, I realized that there were no XP drivers for the hardware in my PC, so I stuck it out. I then decided to do a clean install of Vista Business and it has remained rock solid stable on this box for a year. Once optimized, Vista has been snappier on my box at home than XP is on my similarly configured box at work. I'm not trying to sway you. Just expressing what I've been through. As long as my games and software run fine, I'll stick with it. It runs fine on my laptop too. After optimizing it on my laptop, I've noticed that my laptop with its single core CPU seems to run it faster than my friend's new Dell laptop.
I have no problem with Vista Business 32 on desktop (after some initial headaches) or Vista Basic on laptop. No crashes. No problems. Moved onto Vista last year because I wanted to play Crysis, to be honest and thought it was only DX10. Found out later it does DX9 too. Out of all my games, only one wouldn't run (GTR1), but that isn't a problem because I'll be getting GTR Evolution soon and that does run on Vista. I can record my music with it, get work done with it, and all my games run on it. What's not to like? I think alot of FUD turned people off to it and it will be difficult for Microsoft to recover from that.
While you can in fact run Boot Camp on the Macbook, it will be useless for gaming. Better to go with the Macbook and know that you can play both Mac games as well as PC games. Get as much memory and the biggest hard drive you can afford and that should keep you going for a long time.
The truth is that the Macbook integrated intel Video chipset isn't compatible with any games made to run on intel Macs. The Macbook Pro will work for you, especially considering that you can dual boot Windows with bootcamp and run alot more games in Windows than you can run on Mac OSX
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