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Conundrum

02.27.08 | written by Dave | Comment? | General

Apple has finally announced/released their new speed-bumped MacBooks and MacBook Pros.  We’ve been waiting for this for a while now since Sally’s laptop died shortly before our move and we didn’t have funds at the time to replace it.  We’ve budgeted for a MacBook Pro for a while now and wanted to make sure we were getting one when it was relatively new, so now is the time to buy.

Here’s the issue we recently came up with, and it has surprised and confounded both of us.

MacBook Pro (MPB) OR MacBook and a gaming PC (MB+G)?

It’d come out to about the same price in the end.  MBP allows for a certain amount of mobile gaming, MB+G does not.  MB+G is more sustainable for gaming in the long run.  Right now, MBP and a gaming PC would be of similar power (probably an edge to the gaming PC) but MBP would not hold up in a couple of years for gaming, probably.  MBP is sexier, MB is cuter, gaming PC is more hardcore.

There’s a number of issues going on here and we’re trying to sort them all out without much success at the moment.  If you have any thoughts, please do share.

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