[dudeking]

I'm thinking about moving to a mac for my laptop. I'm a hardcore computer enthusiase so my main system will unfortunatly have to stay as a PC for me to tweak game on ect. But I also need a laptop. at the moment I have a dell Inspiron 9400 Intel Core2 Duo 2GHz, 2Gig Ram, Nvidia 7600GT 100GB HDD 17" Screen.

Now I dont want a 17" laptop again there just too big, I was just about to buy a macbook untill I realised they all only have Shared Graphics. This seems really bad, why do they do this? Will it be okay for the odd hour on World of Warcraft? All I'm really going to be using the laptop for is browsing the net, webdesign, little bit of graphic design but most of this will be done one PC.

I cant really justify £700 for a laptop with shared graphics, and the extra $200 to get 2" extra on the screen and good graphics just dosnt seem worth it.

[ferrija1]

WoW will be playable, but slightly choppy on a MacBook. It sounds like a MacBook would be fine since you won't be doing too much gaming.

[macfan777]

I agree, gaming is pretty much out, but for everything else you'll be fine. OS X handles graphics differently and will run beautifully on graphics hardware that Vista's install disk couldn't even run on. (Oh, okay, maybe the thing about Vista's installer is a bit exaggerated...)

But still, on a Mac, graphics cards go MUCH further.