First Mac (kind of)

[Hell0W0rld]

Hello all, maybe someone can help me.

At the moment I am thinking about buying my first real mac for christmas.
My Situation is the following:
I am a student and have two hackintoshs, they work fine, except for the updating part...

I already read through some of the threads here and now I am a little concerned about future macs.

My original Plan was to buy a macbook pro 13" next year in summer when lion comes, but now I read about Sandy bridge, maybe no nvidia graphics/instead ati in the better pros and the possibility of flash-hd only.
The thing is I don't want an ati-graphics-macbook I hate ati, every pc with ati-graphics I owned, crashed, the ones with nvidia are still running.
I could go on with my concerns about sandy bridge(I don't really think integrated graphics can are such good idea.), the flash-hd(too expensive), but I am just going to ask two questions:


If I am going to buy a macbook pro 13" now, how possible will it be to upgrade to lion?

During some of my courses I will have to work with some Adobe-Products (Premiere, Photoshop,Soundbooth).
Can I hook my 20"-external-DVI-screen onto the macbook pro, and work there with those products?



P.S.: I am from Germany so please excuse any spelling or grammar mistakes.

 

[simsaladimbamba]

If I am going to buy a macbook pro 13" now, how possible will it be to upgrade to lion?

Very possible, as 2006 Macs could be upgraded to a Mac OS X version from 2009 (Snow Leopard) and 2003 Macs could be updated to Leopard (2007).

During some of my courses I will have to work with some Adobe-Products (Premiere, Photoshop,Soundbooth).
Can I hook my 20"-external-DVI-screen onto the macbook pro, and work there with those products?

Yes. For the Adobe software you may need to acquire a license transfer from Windows to Mac OS X maybe.
For the monitor you need the Mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter.

P.S.: I am from Germany so please excuse any spelling or grammar mistakes.

Look at Gravis or CyberPort for cheaper Macs, Gravis even has its own three year warranty for less than 100€ and it saved me the cost of a Logic Board Replacement once.

CyberPort has stores in Berlin and in Dresden, but also has an online shop like Gravis (which has a lot more stores, at least in the part with 50 new districts).

 

[Hell0W0rld]

Very possible, as 2006 Macs could be upgraded to a Mac OS X version from 2009 (Snow Leopard) and 2003 Macs could be updated to Leopard (2007).

That's good to hear.

Yes. For the Adobe software you may need to acquire a license transfer from Windows to Mac OS X maybe.
For the monitor you need the Mini DisplayPort to DVI adapter.

Did I say something about a windows licence?

Look at Gravis or CyberPort for cheaper Macs, Gravis even has its own three year warranty for less than 100€ and it saved me the cost of a Logic Board Replacement once.


CyberPort has stores in Berlin and in Dresden, but also has an online shop like Gravis (which has a lot more stores, at least in the part with 50 new districts).

I looked on their websites, but I think I will order it directly from apple with my student discount.

I know of a project in Switzerland and a similar one in Austria with even more discount(Macbook Pro 13" for 942€) ...I could ask a friend to order one there, but this is only at the beginning of the semesters, how are the chances that apple will not change their macbooks til end april . I know, no one really knows, but what do say the rumors?

 

[simsaladimbamba]

Did I say something about a windows licence?

Nö. I just assumed (making .... ) that you may have PS, PR and SB for your Windows computers, but as you have Hackintoshes, that may not be the case. As they say in Mainz: Spundekäse, but without the napkin, unless you pay extra.