New laptop - what to buy?

[daviejones]

No. In boot camp, you're running a windows system.

If you put them in the right place, yes.

There's been two buttons on the mighty mouse for yonks. On a laptop you put two fingers on the pad an hit the button = right click.

And...an added bonus is that you can access your Windows files from Mac OS...as the drive is mounted on the desktop....very handy indeed.

[beaker]

Thanks guys. I'll take a look at the Acers but the dual boot Mac sounds like a plan.

[Moscow Mule]

Thanks guys. I'll take a look at the Acers but the dual boot Mac sounds like a plan.

Do you need it now? Check buyerguide.macrumurs.com - tells you (roughly) when new stuff is due.

MacWorld in January may be bringing something new and shiny if you can wait that long.

[TheFaQQer]

I need a new laptop but don't want to spend more than 1000, my main priorities are:

• Widescreen
• Lightweight
• Reasonable battery life (current one just manages 45mins!)
• Doesn't need to be particularly powerful but has to do the essentials - web browsing, watch movies, run office apps etc.
• Be able to run a basic web dev environment (eg WAMP)

I bought my wife a MacBook for 749 earlier this year and it's really cool and fast, but not sure if I can justify 2 Macs and no PC!

I like the look of Sony Vaios, I hear ASUS is good but can't be @rsed with their unusable website... any other suggestions? IBM or Toshiba? I'm not too impressed with Dell...

Cheers!

You should ask this in the "Ask Beaker" thread...

[beaker]

You should ask this in the "Ask Beaker" thread...

Good point, although I'd probably get some useless philosophical answer...

[beaker]

Looks like this would be useful too to access files on both partitions: http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/

[KevinS]

Looks like this would be useful too to access files on both partitions: http://www.mediafour.com/products/macdrive/

I use MacDrive on my Vista machine and it works a treat..

[b0redom]

VMware fusion will also let you run Windows apps within OSX so that it actually uses OSX's window manager and they appear to be OSX apps. Very cool stuff...

[daviejones]

So....we all agree...get the Mac.....

[Moscow Mule]

VMware fusion will also let you run Windows apps within OSX so that it actually uses OSX's window manager and they appear to be OSX apps. Very cool stuff...

Parallels coherence mode is similar - all very shiny stuff, plus you can use your boot camp partition, so you can have windows apps open in OS X, then boot to the "same" pc in native mode if you need to crunch the numbers.