Hi everyone, I'm thinking of buying a new laptop as my current one will be 5 years old next year and it currently gives me a blue screen everytime I run a heavy software to make 3D models and animation.
Question is: Should I buy Macbook Pro or a Windows 7 laptop?
I tried to research and some say that Windows would be better, especially because you can buy a very high spec laptop with cheaper price.
While some other say Macbook Pro is the better choice as it can run bootcamp with windows 7 100% performance on every software even though it's a mac. Is this true?
Which one is actually better?
Btw, the software that I usually use is 3Ds Max, Maya, and ZBrush.
To note as well, I have never used a Mac before.
I've checked around some stores and budget wise, I'll need around AU$3000+ to buy a Macbook pro, and AU$2000+ to buy a windows laptop. Quite a big difference in price range.
Thanks for the advice ddp. It's always nice to save money and use it for enhancements.
But thing is, I'm very worried that if I bought a windows laptop, it would turn out to be as buggy, laggy, with high blue screen proneness.
I know that if the laptop itself is very high spec, this case shouldn't happen.
But this tend to happen whenever I try to have the system do some multitasking.
Like for example, while doing the 3D, I need to research something on the net. Rather than quitting the software, I just save and minimize it and then run opera to do the research. Obviously because I'm using a windows laptop, I will need an anti-virus running in the background.
That's why I would like to know if mac's bootcamp can actually run windows 7 and its softwares perfectly at 100% performance or not.
The one who told me that it can run at 100% performance is a mac fanboy maniac.
So I'm afraid that he's just biased.
I would like an objective opinion on it.
the windows laptop will most likely be 1 of the "i" series cpu whether i3, 15 or i7 so should be great for multi-tasking. will also have windows 7 so make certain it is the 64bit premium version so you can max out the amount of ram installed as would come initially with 4gig.
