Comments on: Heresy: The best Windows Vista Notebook is an Apple MacBook Pro!

By: hugo desrosiers

hugo desrosiers — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 09:21:18 +0000

6 years down the road, it’s nice to see that change happen!! 8-) Next step is the tablet instead of laptop: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ModBook. It’s been 3 years now that I went back to “handwriting” (minus the paper part), and I’m a bigger fan every day. With multi-touch interfaces being all the rage, laptops are in a dead-end mode. Why wait?

By: Stefanie

Stefanie — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 21:51:49 +0000

I have to agree with Magee. I switched to Apple back in 2005 and have since found that most of the Mac software is actually far better than the corresponding Windows apps and almost all of it is compatible (ie save on one OS and open in the other). Keynote, Pages, and Camino are some examples. I can even sync my Treo with ical. Plus, Macs have their own cool features… I can program mine to do tasks (Applescript), I love my widgets (Dashboard), and searching is a breeze with spotlight.

By: Igor Drokov

Igor Drokov — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:19:36 +0000

My webcam was working on Bootcamp 1.2, but since upgrading to 1.3 it doesn’t. Bootcamp 1.4 is now available, but haven’t tried upgrading yet.

Which one are you running?

By: Fabrice Grinda

Fabrice Grinda — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:55:35 +0000

Somehow the webcam is not working. I just get nothing in MSN and Skype. Any advice?

By: Igor Drokov

Igor Drokov — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:45:45 +0000

I’m in the same boat, Mac Pro 17″ with Bootcamp for a few months (although still on XP rather than Vista). Always thought the second button absence was a nuisance, but it turns it’s not, because:

- without any additional settings, placing two fingers on the trackpad and then hitting the click button acts as a right-click

and

- using an external Mac mouse with one button, clicking slightly on the right side of the mouse does work as a right-click as well (sounds strange but it just works)

Personally, also really like two-finger scrolling (holding to fingers on the touchpad and moving them up and down).

Also noticed that battery life is even better when running on Mac OS, so watching a film/working on a long flight works better under it.

On a negative side, having some problems with Windows updates (won’t install), sometimes don’t hibernate/standby properly…

By: Minter

Minter — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:00:51 +0000

With you 100%. Cracked for my first Mac last winter. It would seem that there is a power surge going on (not in Iraq) but of PC users moving to Mac. My number one enjoyment is the bootup time. And the right click workarounds are enough for me.

By: Stephan Paternot

Stephan Paternot — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 16:51:10 +0000

Try using VMWare’s Fusion. It gets far better performance and is more stable than Parallel’s 3.0. Review just came out.

http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9760910-1.html

By: Paul Magee

Paul Magee — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:25:05 +0000

Fabrice, I’m predicting you’ll look back on this post and laugh. I didn’t get the whole apple thing until I got one, about 6 months ago. I’m no fanboy or anti MS, my needs are practical, but I use my macbook pro 10 hours a day and it’s nothing short of an inspirational piece of design (hardware and software).

So, you wanted a better PC, that’s fine, but just out of curiosity, forget your PC needs and give the mac a go on it’s own strengths. You might just rediscover the joys of computers.

By: Sean Tierney

Sean Tierney — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 23:37:42 +0000

Fabrice- i switched to Mac a year ago and it was the best decision ever. Couple things- Jace is dead-on with his right-click suggestion. Go to System Prefs > Keyboard Mouse > Trackpad and check the box that says “place two fingers…” – using this for right-click becomes second nature.

You should give a look at the latest version of Parallels- they support all the native 3d graphics acceleration now that was previously the hangup that required people to use Bootcamp for gaming. Plus you can actually load a bootcamp image from Parallels so now there’s no need to reboot to get your PC – you can run it virtually. And multiple snapshots… fuggetaboutit-> http://www.scrollinondubs.com/2007/07/17/multiple-snapshots-in-parallels-3/
I work throughout the day with an instance of XP running virtually on my right monitor and it actually runs faster than it did on my dell laptop.

@David- because they don’t follow convention for convention’s sake. they innovate and improve the interface. if they designed by committee at Apple I can assure you the iPod would not have the elegant interface that it does.

sean

By: Fabrice Grinda

Fabrice Grinda — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:26:24 +0000

Processor: 5.3
Memory: 4.8
Graphics: 5.9
Gaming graphics: 5.4
Hard drive: 5.2