I Like Mac's and I like Poker Stars

[beersportspoker]

I'm going to purchase a laptop for school this weekend. I really like the Mac Book Pro, but also really like poker stars. Is it worth getting a Mac and going through the hassel of setting up windows on it or should I just get a normal laptop?

[Golden]

If you like the mac get the mac, pokerstars will be available on macs, without parallels, probably by the end of the month, but could be longer.

[fredd-bird]

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If you like the mac get the mac, pokerstars will be available on macs, without parallels, probably by the end of the month, but could be longer.

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source?

[a nonymous]

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I'm going to purchase a laptop for school this weekend. I really like the Mac Book Pro, but also really like poker stars. Is it worth getting a Mac and going through the hassel of setting up windows on it or should I just get a normal laptop?

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You can boot directly into Windows and run it just as well as any "normal laptop," so this is certainly not a reason to not get a Mac. Set up is not a hassle at all, unless you're really, really lazy.

[Freakin]

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I'm going to purchase a laptop for school this weekend. I really like the Mac Book Pro, but also really like poker stars. Is it worth getting a Mac and going through the hassel of setting up windows on it or should I just get a normal laptop?

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You can boot directly into Windows and run it just as well as any "normal laptop," so this is certainly not a reason to not get a Mac. Set up is not a hassle at all, unless you're really, really lazy.

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if you're going to get a Mac, wait till Leopard comes out later this month. There is not point in wasting money on the upgrade when you can get it for free with a few weeks of patience.

FWIW, rumors are that Boot Camp (the software that allows you to dual-boot windows & OSX) will not be usable on OSX Tiger (the current version of Mac OSX) after Leopard comes out.

[black666]

Buy a Mac and also buy Parallels ... you can run any Windows application under MacOS with it - with the new "coherence" feature your windows application even look like native MacOS application.

http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallels_Desktop_for_Mac

And yeah...wait until the end of October when Leopard is going to be releasesd.

[black666]

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If you like the mac get the mac, pokerstars will be available on macs, without parallels, probably by the end of the month, but could be longer.

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source?

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http://pokeronamac.com/poker-rooms/pokerstars/
http://pokeronamac.com/news/mac-poke...s-screenshots/

[fredd-bird]

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http://pokeronamac.com/poker-rooms/pokerstars/
http://pokeronamac.com/news/mac-poke...s-screenshots/

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No offense, but those sources have absolutely zero information regarding a release date, let alone "probably by the end of the month."

[SpecT]

sorry to bump but im just trying to understand parellels.

so with parallels you can run non-mac supported programs like PT and PAhud through your mac OS (ie. not using windows)?

If so are there any downsides to this? like performance and how it looks?

[Witzo]

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sorry to bump but im just trying to understand parellels.

so with parallels you can run non-mac supported programs like PT and PAhud through your mac OS (ie. not using windows)?

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Yes.
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If so are there any downsides to this? like performance and how it looks?

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Memory resource hog. Make sure your running at least 2 gigs of ram and might want to opt for 3 or 4 gigs.

I'm personally buying the new MacBook Pro the day New OS goes live which according to Apple's site is simply "in October"