Your thoughts on the Macbook Pro?

I'm considering getting a Macbook Pro both for school and personal use; I am majoring in graphic design so it generally follows that I would get one eventually, but until now I've had no real need for a laptop and have done everything else on a PC. I'm starting to like OSX more and more but would still use parallels or virtual PC or something with Windows. Questions that I have for any previous/current/future macbook owners;

The $2000 macbook pro should suffice right? Or does that extra video memory really make a noticable difference? I would like to play games as well if possible, but $500's a lot of money lol.

What would you suggest for running Windows? Think Vista's ready or would you stick with XP even though they likely will stop updating it soon? Also, bootcamp, virtual pc or parallels?

Anything else I should know or consider before this purchase? Thanks for any responses.

i seriously don't want to start this whole debate, but for anything other than professional video editing, you'll be better off with a windows pc. for your budget, check out acer, dell or possibly toshiba

Whatever you do, DON'T GET VISTA.

Get a hackintosh. It's not hard to find recommended hardware that'll work with OSX.

Also, see >>3.

>>3
yes, because a vastly improved kernel, dx10, excellent RAM caching / pagefile stability and multi-core support are the hallmarks of an inferior OS

>RAM caching
Now there's an innovation. So what do they use to cache the RAM? The hard drive?

>pagefile stability
Indeed. Now our page files will finally stop crashing.

>multi-core support
Yeah really. Using more than one processor at the same time is like OMG NEW.


... oh and when you say "vastly improved kernel" I take it you're talkig about size?

you guys are fuckin dicks man

OP here. Second >>7 lol.

>>5 there's a reason we call you Vistards.

>>5
... Wow.  I can't even think of an insult great enough to describe  the amount of idiocy and ignorance in that post.

1.) Linux has had all of that and more since 1999
2.) Mac has had all of that since 2001

In the realm of operating systems, Windoze will always be playing catch-up.

>>10 here
I just realized that I implied that Linux and Mac have pagefiles.  They don't use that stupid system.  Linux uses the swap partition, and.. I'm not entirely sure what Mac uses, but I am pretty sure it's not a pagefile.

Why do you fags always think graphic design automatically means you need to get some form of mac?

Protip: The software is what makes the final product, not the hardware or brand.

Stupid fuckers don't realize Photoshop works on other systems, huh?

>>12
Photoshop is the only game on mac.

get a mac. it doesn't freak out if you put a space at the end of a filename, which you creative fags always do, either because you're illiterate or because you can't type due to your fingers being horribly mangled in a rim-job accident.