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Would santa rosa worth the wait?

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chstamat

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Hi i'm about to buy a macbook pro. I'm not in a hurry though, but ok i would happily replace the ,nylon crappy, noisy, fat and old laptop of mine with an elegant and powerfull macbook pro, since i find it the best choice (refering to the quality of the hardware construction) among other brands. I intend to use it extensivelly on scientific applications, and audio production. The thing is that i'll be on windows mostly, so i'd like it to be vista uber-capable. So i have the following question.

Should i wait for santa-rosa (regarding the possibility that there will be a lot of bugs at the first releases, so ill have to wait a bit more...) to have a decent vista experience?
 
Ummm...

Would an unknown machine with unknown specs to be released at an unknown date at an unknown price, be a better value for you (keeping in mind that other than uber-vista, we don't know your requirements)?

Ummm...

<flips coin>

Yes, you should wait for the next new thing before buying.

Seriously... nobody can answer this without 100% guesswork. If you need a machine now, buy it. If you suspect that you will absolutely need next year's features in a machine, wait until next year.
 
The current Core 2 Duo based MacBook Pros are great laptops, why not buy now and be happy. You can play the waiting game for ever. :)
 
It boils down to how bad do you need a new computer verses how long will the wait be for santa rosa?

When santa rosa does come out, you'll be hearing the rumblings of waiting for the quad laptops to come out. There is always something new down the slipstream of time.
 
whatever you buy, it'll be 'outdated' and 'old crap' within a few months anyway. so why distress yourself more by worrying about what 'soon to be outdated' goods you're going to buy to distress yourself that they're about to be outdated?

buy now, be happy until the next thing comes out. or buy later, be happy until it gets revised/upgraded.

or, just buy when you need it and be happy you've got a decent piece of technology :) and quit asking these questions all the time :rolleyes: ;) :p
 
Apple's BootCamp enables you to run Windows XP SP2 and has been reported to work with developer releases of Vista, however BootCamp itself is still
a beta test program.

While BootCamp works quite well, in it's latest update, you might consider
waiting for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard for professional use in mission critical
applications.

In order to run Windows, you must have a retail copy of Windows XP Home
or XP Pro including SP2.

You should be fine working with all your current Windows applications, but you'll need to be very diligent about backing up any Windows files.

Upgrading to OS X 10.5. Leopard will most likely run $129.00

Upgrading to Vista Pro will cost several hundred dollars.

You can buy the current C2D Models with complete confindence, but
you should be aware of the software upgrade path as well.
 
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