Can i ask you guys about my new laptop

Hi there,

I'm buying a new laptop mainly for school works

Currently , my main computer is a 2009 MacBookPro which will be handed down to my sister very soon.

Personally, i would like to stick with Mac due to its versatility , but given this new laptop will be using mainly on Rhino, GH , i have some doubts whether to switch to a window based laptop.

I have a look at some high-end window laptops, Dell Alienware for example, with same specs as MBP and found the price are even more expensive than MBP , about 10-15 %.

With the new Rhino 5 is coming , will Bootcamp be good and efficient enough to run Rhino, GH and some rendering programs?

From my experience i find Rhino and Gh run smoothly on Bootcamp , but never run those programs on window based laptop myself , it's impossible for me to know the differences.

Some say BootCamp only deliver 80% performance of the program , if it's true i would really consider switching to window based laptop.

Any suggestions?

and if you suggest me to switch , what brand should i go for ?

Thank you,

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Permalink Reply by to] on January 29, 2010 at 1:14am

hi punkhead

so what i now from a friend of mine who has a mac pro and a macbook pro he has completely changed to win7 64bit on his mac pro cause he did some speed test and after that he deletetd leopard (he has 2 xeon with 16gb of ram btw he had also a lot of troubles with the nvidia graphic card drivers from mac and knw everything runs smooth)
for the brand choose may you look on build to order notebooks where you can define the components or i would recommend you the dell precision line

Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on January 29, 2010 at 4:53am

i second to] on the precision line...excellent machines and tech support...that being said, I recently switched to a temp mac book pro after having a dell Precision for 5 years, unfortunately I am o the windws side about 95% on of the time on the MBP. For me those are the only two options ... really based on tech support, machine builds, price, performance, weight, etc...

Permalink Reply by Mårten Nettelbladt on February 1, 2010 at 10:47am