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(hurrah)
Now ... listen carefully ... I do love my Mac and everything within it, so I'll be getting a powerbook most likely.
However, as much as I hate it, I know I'll have to get some Microsoft shizzle. So the question being:
1) Get the Mac versions of all the MS heaps for me, or:
2) Install the Windows OS on the computer so I use it whenever.
I would pick the first one (obviously) - only that I'll probably be picking up some more specialized software which might not run in Mac OS, so will be better off having Windows there as well.
So, there's the thing.
I take it (2) is perfectly possible ... you just install them both (hardrive partition as well) and pick whatever at start-up.
The only question being whether the Mac laptops will let me do that (can't see why not, but you never know) in which case I'd get a different computer and install Mac OS on that as well as Windows. If I can do that one either.
?
If you're gonna link me anything, make sure it's tiny.
So small I could plauslibly tell doctors that I did indeed 'sit on it'
Although cheaper is always better, I suppose.
But I wants it.
Like, now.
Not sure though, someone who is in higher education might be able to confirm this.
> Game-related programming shizzle.
There actually isn't any game specific stuff you could go for the Mac... not without making your life hard anyway. THere is BlitzMAX, the games language, but for the best support in docs, libs and editors there really is no choice but using Windows. Plus, you're limited in doing OpenGL stuff, whilst you get DirectX as well in Windows.
Cancom do refurbs: [URL]http://www.cancomuk.com/[/URL] and Apple do, too, but only between 10am and 12am on a Wednesday: [URL]http://promo.euro.apple.com/promo/refurb/uk[/URL].
Cheapest place to buy from?
Hmmm ... what about a refurbished one ... ?
> FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
>
> I'm not sure on the specifics, but the main basic programming, er
> ...
> programs and there's some more specific games-related shizzle I
> should
> get.
>
> Games on a Mac? Heh (I suppose there's WoW).
Game-related programming shizzle.
It comes with 512MB as standard (256MB built-in, 256MB in user-accessible slot). If you want more you can add £50 for a 512MB stick in the slot (making a total of 768MB). Unfortunately you can't buy the PowerBook without memory in the slot, so if you buy your own 512MB stick for £53 from Crucial ([URL]http://www.crucial.com/uk/[/URL]) from Crucial you'll have the 256MB that came with it as spare.
Check out the specs and options at the Apple Store: [URL]http://www.apple.com/uk/thestore/[/URL].