Laptop Question

Igpx407

I am going to buy a new laptop for college. My question is if I have an Apple laptop and I'm running windows on it can i install and play windows games?

Improvolone

Yes.

Get the best battery/lightest thing you can

ZackSchilling

You'll need to be booted into Windows (not running it in a virtual environment) to get the full benefit of 3D acceleration.

Igpx407

Then I'm definitely going to buy a MacBook pro but then my other question is how much better is the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics with 256MB SDRAM compared to the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics with 128MB SDRAM?

projectmayhem

When buying a laptop, spend every penny you can afford.

ryuprecht

Igpx407 wrote: »

Then I'm definitely going to buy a MacBook pro but then my other question is how much better is the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics with 256MB SDRAM compared to the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT graphics with 128MB SDRAM?

I just bought this laptop.

I can't directly compare the stats of the two chipsets, but it's my understanding that only the 256M chipset supports DirectX10.

I could be wrong, this is just from my memory.

I've had it now for one week, and game performance is pretty good for a laptop. I have mostly been playing Neverwinter Nights 2 with it, and it runs pretty smooth without any hiccups. It doesn't seem as sluggish as my desktop XP, which has a slightly less powerful chipset in it.

On top of that, Boot Camp is still Beta, so I can hope for even better performance this fall when it becomes part of OS X 10.5.