<p>Alienware
intel Core i7 2617m 1.5 GHZ (2.6GHZw/ turbo BOOST 4MB cache)
4GB Dual Channel DD3 at 1333MHZ
320 GB 7200rpm SATA 3Gb/s
System does not come with a DVD or CD Drive.</p>
<p>Which one would you chose? The 3 of them are almost the same price…</p>
<p>Oh yeah, I dont play any games, I might start to deepen into photoshop and id like to edit, make and whatnot home videos or short videos, essays, music (itunes), download music and movies, and uhmmmm bascially thats it.</p>
<p>Thanks StraightsJscket Gojack: Im a notebook, pen, pencil person lol, Im not planning on carry it everywhere, perhaps not even classroom, unless the class requires it.</p>
<p>^ Lol isn’t it funny mac fanboys somehow think their macs are better at doing that stuff? Anyway definitely don’t get an alienware because you don’t want 2 hrs of battery life, and cost-wise I wouldn’t get the MBP either. And on that Qosmio X775, at that price you could get a desktop that would be 5x better in all aspects, as well as a good laptop for mobile use. Since you said you aren’t going to carry it around much, that would be your best option by far.</p>
<p>Photoshop eats up RAM like no other. The little 4MB RAM in the MBP can become a burden. MBP looks like it has an intergrated GPU as opposed to the discrete GPU found in the two other models.
Qosimo also has far more HDD space then any of the other two.
A 17’ screen is by and large far easier to read and do photo/video editing on then your going to get with a 13’ MBP.</p>
<p>Care to explain why my university promotes Macs (not PCs) to the journalism and graphic design majors?</p>
<p>I never said that PCs weren’t able to run Photoshop or play movies and music. That would be foolish. I simply made the statement that Macs were able to do those tasks more efficiently. However, I will point out that PCs are catching up.</p>
<p>If you want to get a PC, fine. I won’t take it personally. I just like Macs because, as Steve Jobs says, they just work.</p>
<p>The Qosmio gets pretty bad battery life, but that’s the only negative I see about it. Don’t get the Alienware. It’s a rip-off for this price range.</p>
<p>Maybe because it is receiving commission from Apple for every sale? PCs have been able to play music and movies and run Photoshop since like 1997.</p>
<p>"Care to explain why my university promotes Macs (not PCs) to the journalism and graphic design majors? "</p>
<p>Mac’s have been standard in the advertising and publishing business since day one.
Mac’s were the first to offer WYSIWYG layout and typesetting. Even though Photoshop and QuarkXPress/Pagemaker and similar programs are now available on a PC, if you go in a big Ad agency/newspaper/catalog/publisher you will find that the creative department runs on Mac’s and the accounting department runs on PC’s. So your University is getting you ready for the real world. If you check the Business college, they push PC’s., same reason.</p>
<p>That’s right. Music professionals will also lean toward Macs because they’re multimedia powerhouses, whereas PCs are number crunchers. There’s nothing wrong with either, but they’re just made for different purposes. I originally suggested the Mac because the OP emphasized that he/she had an interest in multimedia.</p>
<p>That being said, PCs and Macs are catching up to each other. The Mac is able to process spreadsheets with relative ease, and PCs have become significantly more capable when dealing with Photoshop. Still, each one retains a slight edge in their respective specialties.</p>
<p>Macs are better at multitasking for creatives. The Mac OS X is a better all-around OS (even though it does have a few quirks). I’ve never had any issue running Photoshop, Dreamweaver, and Fireworks simultaneously on an iMac at my university. Windows? I’m lucky if I can run more than two “heavy-duty” programs without experiencing a little lag.</p>
<p>Finally, let’s just get over our differences. I frequently suggest Macs because I have a Mac and am very satisfied with my purchase. The debate between Mac and PC will be eternal.</p>
<p>Why don’t we actually help the OP instead of, you know, fighting about this and going nowhere?</p>
<p>Oh, use “[ quote ] text between quote [ / quote ]” to quote something. Remove the spaces in the brackets.</p>
<p>You seem to think all “windows” PCs are the same and have the same hardware. The ones you were using were obviously low-end or outdated PCs. Fact is, I could get a windows PC that has better hardware than a mac, at a third of the price. And Windows 7 is a better OS actually.</p>
<p>I recall reading an interview with the Tech Support manager of a famous music sequencer program company. One of their software apps was originally Mac only, and ported to Windows years later. Most of their users used Macs, 90% of them, yet the guy said that Windows users (10%) generated 90% of the support calls.</p>
<p>The reason was the Mac is uniform in its hardware. If you’re a developer this is great. If you’re a user, well, that’s the ‘Apple Tax’. In Windows land there are whole boxes of alphabet soups that deal with how hardware (like sound cards) interface with the operating system. On a Mac - just one. </p>
<p>This flexibility allows power users like us to build Windows PC’s exactly to do what they want them while keeping costs low. The majority of PC users can’t reasonably put a solid PC off parts together, so they’re stuck with ready made PC’s, whatever the cost and features.</p>
Gojack: Im a notebook, pen, pencil person lol, Im not planning on carry it everywhere, perhaps not even classroom, unless the class requires it.</p>