Hi,
My sister is at the middle of her fourth year of Architecture studies.
She spends on average between 38 and 42 hours everyweek
designing on her laptop, sometimes a bit longer.
The HP laptop she owned called it quits last weekend.
My sister had up to $1,600 to buy a new computer.
My sister narrowed it down to two options: a MBP and a HP laptop.
The MBP costed around $2900, and the HP around $1,800 (Prices with Tax). Both computers had NVIDEA cards. (She said the computer needed to have that card to use a program called 3D-Max. She also uses AutoCAD most of the time).
My sister is in full schollarship. So my parents with regard to her, pay absolute no tuition. Even my parents said to her get the computer you feel you need at this moment, don´t worry about the price. (Lucky her, I always have to beg for extra help to cover my expenses).
Anyway. My sister went for the HP. She said, she may get the MBP in a year and half, after graduation, when she be working fulltime.
She saw that the HP was about 1,000 cheaper than the MBP.
I´ll be happy to post in the next 24 hours the HP model she purchase, so you can take a look at it and tell me if her purchase was really worth it.
The main reasons I write this post is because I´ll be starting a graduate degree in Urbanism, and I will also need to design. My idea is to sell my ibook and buy a Macbook, (I won´t have money for more). However, is hard to see an HP offering as much performance as a MBP for the price of a well-equipped Mac Book.
One of the main differences between the MB and the MBP, is that the MBP has these NVIDEA cards. Is it possible to have Mac Books with NVIDIA cards, perhaps that would attract more people like my sister and I to buy a Mac Book.
In advance thank you for your input, I´ll post the modell from HP. Unfortunately my sister is not around to tell me.
igmolinav
My sister is at the middle of her fourth year of Architecture studies.
She spends on average between 38 and 42 hours everyweek
designing on her laptop, sometimes a bit longer.
The HP laptop she owned called it quits last weekend.
My sister had up to $1,600 to buy a new computer.
My sister narrowed it down to two options: a MBP and a HP laptop.
The MBP costed around $2900, and the HP around $1,800 (Prices with Tax). Both computers had NVIDEA cards. (She said the computer needed to have that card to use a program called 3D-Max. She also uses AutoCAD most of the time).
My sister is in full schollarship. So my parents with regard to her, pay absolute no tuition. Even my parents said to her get the computer you feel you need at this moment, don´t worry about the price. (Lucky her, I always have to beg for extra help to cover my expenses).
Anyway. My sister went for the HP. She said, she may get the MBP in a year and half, after graduation, when she be working fulltime.
She saw that the HP was about 1,000 cheaper than the MBP.
I´ll be happy to post in the next 24 hours the HP model she purchase, so you can take a look at it and tell me if her purchase was really worth it.
The main reasons I write this post is because I´ll be starting a graduate degree in Urbanism, and I will also need to design. My idea is to sell my ibook and buy a Macbook, (I won´t have money for more). However, is hard to see an HP offering as much performance as a MBP for the price of a well-equipped Mac Book.
One of the main differences between the MB and the MBP, is that the MBP has these NVIDEA cards. Is it possible to have Mac Books with NVIDIA cards, perhaps that would attract more people like my sister and I to buy a Mac Book.
In advance thank you for your input, I´ll post the modell from HP. Unfortunately my sister is not around to tell me.
igmolinav
