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save yourself all the trouble and look into an IBM thinkpad. no, they're not glamorous and they don't come with a shiny apple logo on them, but the they are quite powerful notebooks for not a lot of cost. admittedly, you'd have to get a pretty spiffy one if you wanted to play crysis/crisys 2, but those are really games made to be played on desktop machines. i have friends who try to play the latest and greatest games on macbooks, and they suffer through hardware shortcomings and bootcamp crashing almost daily.
buy a PC. it can do everything a mac can with more power for less cost, at the price of having 'designer status.'

if playing games is what you're interested in doing with this machine, i do not see why you'd even consider buying a mac.

Uuuuh, Glue, sorry to break your bubble, but you won't be able to play Crysis and Crysis 2 on Mac OSX. Any game making use of DirectX will never run on the Mac unless they made a version of the game that could run on it through OpenGL, very very very few game developers do this, and Crytek certainly isn't part of those that do it.

And even if a game is in OpenGL there is no guarantee it will run on Mac OSX, as that is simply the renderer.

Crysis games will only run on machines with Windows XP/Vista/7 installed.

author=KingArthur

you won't be able to play Crysis and Crysis 2 on Mac OSX.

Boot Camp?

Hmm, I hadn't actually thought about that. It could work then.

Anyhow, yeah, both could hypothetically run the games, buuuut the first one would struggle quite a bit, Radeon 6490 is low end, the one that cost 400 more would stand more of a chance at it. Both are integrated chips though, which are not ideal for running PC games as they are generally weaker than their desktop counterpart.

Seems like so, just checked them out, but they're still the mobility line.

Either way, the one with the Radeon 6750m would have a better chance. Not to mention that 256mb of memory on a GPU is too low for recent games, so no matter how capable the chip would be you'd be limited by that.

Depends how much you're attached to the ability to play games at decent framerates/higher settings.

EDIT: By "ps" I assume you mean photoshop? Creative suite is not just photoshop. its aftereffects and other video editing software as well. (These aren't available for pc).

Um, yes they are. The entire Creative Suite is available on PC.

author=Glue

author=Sailerius

EDIT: By "ps" I assume you mean photoshop? Creative suite is not just photoshop. its aftereffects and other video editing software as well. (These aren't available for pc).

Um, yes they are. The entire Creative Suite is available on PC.

Ah yes they are. For me personally though, I can't use Premiere and aftereffects since i'm on 32 bit. I'd have to upgrade my version of windows.

EDIT: The other reason is I already have a mac version of cs5

You would not want to use After Effects on 32 bit anyway. It's such a resource hog, especially on rendering. Better off using Nuke or the outdated Shake for video compositing software.