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I'm selling my Alienware Area-51 m5550 Notebook so I can pay off some other bills. It has been lightly used, and is in 100% perfect condition. Since it is only a few months old and has remained on my desk 100% of the time there are NO surface marks at all. Screen is 100% perfect and has no...
I almost blew my drink through my nose when I read the "superior build quality of a macbook" thing, they have been plagued with problems since day 1 of release. My wife has one, and while they are nice for an OS X machine you cant really do any serious gaming on them. Also they get dirty and...
I have used a Macbook with a GMA 950 inside and all HD videos I watched ran perfectly. I would assume yours should do slightly better considering Windows allows more memory to be allocated to the video card then OS X does.
Avoid the Macbooks anyway, they are plagued with problems, and for the money they are just not worth it, unless you NEED OS X.
Check out the Alienware m5550 as well, very nice laptop for $999 to start, im using one right now :)
Gaming rocks on it.
Hard to get the kind of answer your looking for at a PC-centric forum, but here goes.
The Macbook you would need for your uses you mentioned only costs $1099. It will do everything you want and do it well and crash free for years and years. All the software you will need is already included...
The new keyboard takes a couple of days to get used to, but once you do you will love it. As for the palmrests looking stained after awhile, just use a Mr. Clean magic eraser and it will look new again.
Switched over almost 4 years ago, still love my Macs. I also have a new Alienware m5550 laptop I just bought for my gaming / rendering needs. Gotta love the Core 2 Duo :)