Howdy!
I'm from Europe and my friend is going to USA (a student so she has discounts! ). Currently I have Lenovo IdeaPad Y580 with i7, 8GB, GTX660M and FHD screen. I love Apple's design + OS X but couldn't afford it - agree here sometimes Mac's are overpriced Anyways I'd like to know is there any point for me in getting MBP without/with Retina.
So a little about myself: I'm computer studies student so I do programming (at least I try with C and C++ ), as a student I have to be quite mobile. Also I watch TV shows in HD (so called 720p/1080i/p rips), I like to play some newer games e.g. BF3, SimCity, SC2, GTAIV, D3 etc. so I will have BootCamp and Steam installed. Other things I do are Skyping, messaging via communicators, browsing, music and whatever You have in Your mind
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I know that GT650M in MBP is roughly 10% slower than GTX660M but I heard that GT650 in Mac is overclocked a little bit.
I have 2 external HDDs in USB3.0 enclosures and they are NTFS formatted - I'd like to keep it this way, so are there ways to have write/read possibility under Mac?
And why are they quite many problems with USB3.0 hubs under Mac? I definitely will get one so I'm curious as I don't want to buy something that won't work
I'm from Europe and my friend is going to USA (a student so she has discounts! ). Currently I have Lenovo IdeaPad Y580 with i7, 8GB, GTX660M and FHD screen. I love Apple's design + OS X but couldn't afford it - agree here sometimes Mac's are overpriced Anyways I'd like to know is there any point for me in getting MBP without/with Retina.
So a little about myself: I'm computer studies student so I do programming (at least I try with C and C++ ), as a student I have to be quite mobile. Also I watch TV shows in HD (so called 720p/1080i/p rips), I like to play some newer games e.g. BF3, SimCity, SC2, GTAIV, D3 etc. so I will have BootCamp and Steam installed. Other things I do are Skyping, messaging via communicators, browsing, music and whatever You have in Your mind
EDIT:
I know that GT650M in MBP is roughly 10% slower than GTX660M but I heard that GT650 in Mac is overclocked a little bit.
I have 2 external HDDs in USB3.0 enclosures and they are NTFS formatted - I'd like to keep it this way, so are there ways to have write/read possibility under Mac?
And why are they quite many problems with USB3.0 hubs under Mac? I definitely will get one so I'm curious as I don't want to buy something that won't work
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