I am new in this website, i don't know if i am allowed to make new threads.
I am looking for buying a laptop, my choice is between an Alienware m17x and a MacBook Pro 15" 2011 ATI 6750. I am not a hardcore gamer, im looking for playing WoW, DotA, HoN on decent graphics and mess with Eletronic Music production. which one should i get?
Just so you know, the 6750m and the 6770m are the same chip, you can easily undervolt and overclock the 6750m over the 6770m clocks in windows ( which i use for gaming). there's an over clocking thread in this forum that'll give you everything you need, most of all it makes your macbook run cooler.
since lion, the diference between fps on lion and windows when playing sc2 is 1 fps (windows wins), although running windows allows you to overclock your mac effectively giving it the edge. However, you should know that whatever your running will run so much cooler in mac os.
i'd go for a mac... it's a complete different experience, i used to have liquid cooling on my pc and used nothing but the most powerful hardware. since switching to a mac, that need is long gone. today i know hardware isn't everything, and i started with a mere 2008 13" core duo. many will never understand this.
i can happily say that i don't feel the need to format my mac, in fact, i have never formatted a mac, and mine's as fast as the day i bought it. In windows, i felt this need to run defraggers, spyware scans, anti virus scans, all of these weekly to remove whatever garbage you collected during that period. most annoyingly i felt a need to re-format every six months. in mac os, you just work, play, watch you tube videos, whatever you want, and once a month you run a tool like onyx which does some regular maintenance. that's it really.
