Re: OT: New MBP... or not? (Firewire still necessary?)

[Louie Angulo <louie.angulo@googlemail.com>]

Hey gang,
while we are at it, i just got an imac for my birthday and all i can say is man what a beautiful computer!
is the 21" with 500GB hardrive,but now there are a couple of things to consider,first i cannot ditch my PC right away since there is so much SW  i still use everyday.Then again i want to have a serious stable computer to record.
So im thinking of installing bootcamp on my Imac to use both platforms.
my question is:
Is it wise to do this or will it slow down and have an effect in the performance of the computer?
if i was to do a partition on both,would a 80 GB partition be enough for the operating systems to take advantage of the rest of the drive for storage?
anybody here using both with parallels? any hardware conflicts?
could i sitll use the same apple wireless keyboard and mouse for both?
would you pay the 300.-eur difference and  get the step up that has the ATI Radeon HD 4670 and  I TB hardrive or just get an x-ternal drive?
thanx for all your tips
Luis

2010/4/14 <antonyhequet@yahoo.com>

found it, one FW 800 port!

Thanks,

Antony

----- Original Message ----
From: Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com

Sent: Wed, April 14, 2010 10:06:25 AM
Subject: Re: OT: New MBP... or not? (Firewire still necessary?)

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 3:50 PM,  <antonyhequet@yahoo.com> wrote:
> by the way, do these new MacBook pros s till include firewire?

Yes. More here:
http://www.apple.com/mac/whichmacbook/compare.html

But that site says "4 GB memory" for all MBPs and a Swedish vendor
this morning published 8 GB as the upper limit for RAM expansion. So
either I posted the wrong information to the list based on this
Swedish vendor or Apple doesn't publish the full RAM expansion option.
Better ask a sales man about it. There is good third-party
manufactured RAM blocks to pick up in stead of the horrendously
expensive RAM expansion Apple offers..

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
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