I'm thinking of getting a portable laptop for myself. MacBook black version with 2GHZ Core 2 Duo and 2GHZ Memory option seems nice..and the bootcamp, dual booting capability.
Can anyone tell me about the vista performance on Macbook compare to the traditional intel base notebook on same spec. Can i expect the same performance or lower than the laptops like HP, or Dell....in the same specification.......
If the performance is about the same, I'gonna get myself a MacBook......
2007-03-14 06:12:54 · 3 answers · asked by mtryfena 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
vista is not yet supported by the mac "enablers" (i.e. bootcamp, or dualboot, or virtualpc)
2007-03-14 18:52:49 · answer #1 · answered by lapyramid 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vista works great on the Macbook - at least as good as on a similar Dell laptop. My white Macbook was upgraded to have the same memory and cpu speed as mentioned in the original post and with about 30 minutes of searching for driver installation instructions it works *wonderfully*.
I have my main windows applications installed as well - .net 2.0 and 3.0, C# developer express and Web developer Express and it works wonderfully.
I will mention the only drawback so far - the battery life is only about 2.5 hours under vista, in contrast to 5 hours under OS X. Don't know yet if that is a configuration setting or driver issue. If you need or want Vista for anything other than gaming it will not disappoint on the Macbook.
2007-03-16 18:16:46 · answer #2 · answered by moosetipper 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you are going to get a Macbook then use OS X, you will not be disappointed. Don't buy it just to put Vista on it, which right now I don't believe is supported with bootcamp but will be when OS X Leopard comes out.
2007-03-14 06:19:39 · answer #3 · answered by Just Bored!! 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋