Best Laptop for a poker player?

[Duke]

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Those apple notebooks are just too pricey though. It costs an arm and a leg for a decent computer at 17" from them whilst you could shop around and get much better deals for comparable comps sans the MacOS. For productivity one could then boot to Linux and boot to XP for poker. One could get a very good comp at 17" with a decent video-card and two monitor plugs (for three monitoring) for around $1300 or so.

Basically, I think Apple makes good comps, but given computer price-points today, I think they are more than a bit too pricey, especially if one's needs pretty basic, and sometimes even if they are pretty advanced.

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Yeah, it really depends on what you want to do with your computer. You -can- do everything from any OS, but you run into the issue of which OS lets you do it the easiest/best way.

I obviously think the mac wins hands down, with linux coming in a close second (if you really know what you're doing). But if the main use is poker and web browsing, you may as well get a vista machine from costco.