New Laptop

[tct70]

Hi All,

In the market for a new laptop for my main production machine. I intend keeping my current PC as a render slave, and run AutoCAD, Viz2008 and Photoshop (After Effects soon).My questions are:

1. Is a Macbook Pro with windows under bootcamp still the way forward or are they now just expensive PC's.

2. Can I run my two monitors from the laptop or only one.

3. Would you run Photoshop and After Effects under Mac OS and just keep the AutoDesk stuff on Windows, as I assume PS and AE could take advantage of more ram that way.

Any advice or things I've not considered would be much appreciated.

Trev

[DaForce]

1. There is little to no difference in hardware between PC and Mac laptops really. People often choose the Macs as they may look better and/or be cheaper than some of the branded laptops.

2. Most laptops only have 1 VGA output. Some may have a single DVI.

3. No need to run things on seperate OS's there isnt really any advatage and just makes it tricker to share files.

Hope that info is of some use

[Ramsay]

If you're interested I may be selling my Rock CTX Pro laptop. It's a great machine and cost me an absolute fortune but unfortunately I just don't use it very often. Here's the spec:

17" X-Glass High resolution screen
Core 2 Duo T7600
Nvidia Quadro FX 2500M graphics card
2GB RAM

Fire me a PM if interested.

PS I'm based in Scotland.