Anyone using a Macbook pro here?
Narmy:
Quote from: soozelwoozel on 2011 February 11, 00:37:40
Quote from: jeebuschrist on 2011 February 10, 21:59:27
Quote from: soozelwoozel on 2011 February 10, 11:28:33
It's fast, easy to use, rarely has any problems, is light and portable, converted me to trackpad use, etc etc. jeromy will be foaming at the mouth right about now.
Yes, and it's also $500 overpriced, a pain in the ass to game on, and prone to overheating. Also, I see no way in which Windows isn't "easy to use".
Let's see, I previously owned an HP Pavillion, which a)overheated like you could not imagine, and B)was about as portable as a t-Rex. Seriously, the overheating was a sight to see. It Heated our whole flat for a year, unti it finally gave up. Yes, it games, but aside from that it was no where near as good as my Mac, which cost like £750 to its £650.
You were saying?
Just because Apple has only one type of laptop, doesn't mean Windows laptops follow the same formula. There are good and bad brands, and HP happens to be one of the worst.
Laptops aren't meant for gaming anyways.
soozelwoozel:
Yes, I am fully aware of that. I was talking FROM MY EXPERIENCE. Did I say Macs are better than PC's? No, I did not. Did I say all PC laptops suck? No, I did not.
Narmy:
Quote from: soozelwoozel on 2011 February 12, 01:14:39
Yes, I am fully aware of that. I was talking FROM MY EXPERIENCE. Did I say Macs are better than PC's? No, I did not. Did I say all PC laptops suck? No, I did not.
Did I say you said any of that?
Alexina:
TS3 managed to swell the battery in mine to almost exploding point and wore the fan out, and that was with an FPS limiter and minimum graphics settings. It's hell if you play it on OSX because the game runs in a Windows emulator which makes it even worse. Even with a Windows partition I found it still laggy and the fan was always running at max. There are tools you can download to control the fan in Windows but with TS3 you don't wanna do that or it'll fry your laptop. So unless you wanna keep shelling out for a new laptop fan and battery (unibody fans are hellishly expensive although you can buy cheap knockoff £15 ones from China instead of Apple's own £50 ones, the batteries however you don't wanna risk getting a cheap knockoff one as they're known to explode and the proper ones cost like hundreds of pounds that you might aswell just buy a new laptop if you can't do without a battery) just don't bother running it on a Macbook Pro. Get a proper gaming PC with some good hardware and you can at least run the graphics at max and not have it look like crap and run like crap, and if it does cause the fan to blow at least you can replace them for £5.
Robowolf:
What soozelwoozel said; I've got a MacBook Pro and it works great for my daily life (internet, homework, messing around) and I've actually never had any overheating problems. However, Macs in general don't seem to be the best for gaming, at least not as laptops, so it all depends on what your "daily life" is.
I will say that leaving Dell for Apple was one of the best decisions I ever made. I cannot caution you enough against getting a Dell, at least not the non-gaming ones (I have no experience with the gaming laptops). If you're considering other brands, my sister seems to like her Toshiba Satellite; I know she can play TS3 on it and it seems to run okay.
Edited to say I have no idea what the issues about CC hairs are, because my MacBook Pro handles them just fine.
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