[osflash] OT: mac book? or Dell?

[Bob Ippolito]

On 9/2/06, John Grden <neoriley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ok, look - Chris Allen can NOT answer on this ;)
>
> I'm really close to buying a mac book, but for the price, I can get a dell
> with a MUCH better video card - and that's about the only difference besides
> the price.
>
> The plus?  I can dual boot mac and windows - Rock on \m/ - I need a mac.
>
> Will that 64mb video card be alright for presentations/flash
> animations/running a server etc?
>
> right now, I borrow a dell with 256mb video card and never have any issues.
> I can't afford the mac book pro.

VRAM is only really used by 3D apps on Windows (beyond one or two
screen buffers). Four 1600x1200 24bpp screens fits in less than 32mb.

On OS X, extra VRAM helps because it's used for window backing stores
too, because the whole UI is accelerated. However, 64mb is still more
than adequate for just about anything, especially 2D.

> Soooo, has anyone got a single reason that I've not thought of that makes my
> purchasing the mac book a sych without question?  (and don't tell me "macs
> rule, end of story")

It helps to be able to test things in Safari and such, and some people
make good use of having a real shell and unix tools (cygwin definitely
doesn't count).

-bob