'Wanna Buy a MacBook 2.0GHz Computer

Hello. I'm thinking about getting a good notebook for work. I've been a Windows desktop PC user for around 10 years but lately I've been thinking about giving the Mac OS X Tiger a try. What attracted me to the new Macs is the option to dual booth OS X and Windows XP on the same platform thru a beta application called Boot Camp. I don't know if this is the right forum but... Anyway, the MacBook 2.0GHz notebook seem to be okay but lately I've been hearing complaints about their Intel-powered MacBooks - 1)Random shutdown 2)Logic Board glitches 3)Heatsink - the Macs ran so hot but not in a Paris Hilton sort of way, it's one laptop you can't put on your lap. And they say these problem ain't just common to early production Macs but to the recent ones as well.

Hope Apple has finally addressed the issue by coming up with newer revisions. What's your take on the matter?

Is Apple using the Core 2 Duo yet?

I know a guy who has a MacBook Pro, or whatever the Intel dual core variety is.
He uses it for everything in his business, and he does Goldmine contact management and computerized selling), as well as a lot of video and photo editing for personal uses.

He absolutely loves the thing for that.
I do know a couple issues he has
Sometimes the networking issue gets touchy between Airport (wireless) and Wired and when running Windows within the Mac.
An annoying thing is that external drives need to be formatted in MACformat or whatever, so they can't interchange with Windows directly (like with USB 2.0), I believe he said you can access them through the network of course.
THen everyone else that tries to use it, doesn't know where anything is, or how to access it. I'm sure it is a simple thing to learn, just if you have a wife or g/f or kids or whatever and they are going to be using the thing too, and they are used to Windows, you might have to hear about it for a while.

He also uses that BootCamp for everything at work (since his company is primarily Windows based) and always raves about how well it works, and that it is fast. I think he only has the Core Duo T2500 2.0 Ghz. They are semi-expensive machines though for what you get.

KillerNotebooks

Im hoping the next OSX upgrade offers better complatability with standart x86 hardware and i could run OSX on any pc with good drivers for high end video cards and other goodies. Infact if apple just got out of hardware altogether and just focused on OSX, i think that would be cool.

I like OSX but i think apple hardware is way overpriced. Maybe thats where they make some of there money back for selling the OS so cheap compared to windows.

I too like macbooks but and afraid that apples quality has been slipping over the years.

Ideally id like something like a KODACHI
http://www.killernotebooks.com/kod [...] ation.aspx
that could run OSX.

I read somwhere that it only werks if you have the entire intel video card/audio card centrino chipset architecture because the drivers are automatically installed in the chipset drivers.

who out there is gonna make a drvier for a 7900 or 7600 nvidia card that runs on OSX? Apple and ATI I would imagine only makes drivers for the hardware they support such as the ATI chip found in the macbook pro or wakazachi.

Thanks a lot for the advice. Yes, I've decided to get myself a Mac. I got a friend who works in NY and the Apple Store is just a couple of blocks down. I'm gonna ask her to go buy the MacBook for me.