New desktop needed- recommended specs?

BCEagle91
Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:46:57 +0000

I have a MacBook Pro 17 Inch and it’s a workhorse. I use it as my office computer (I turned off my office computer some time ago) hooked up to two additional monitors. I have a Bluetooth Mouse and Keyboard setup to solve the keyboard issue and carry around a small BlueTooth mouse when I’m on the road. At home, I use an old Dell desktop with dual monitors and I can hookup one or two laptops to the desktop using Synergy (open source software). This software allows me to use one keyboard and mouse set to control my desktop and several laptops (usually one or two).

I’m am slowly giving up on Vista. I bought a Dell laptop with Vista on it for traveling (my MacBook Pro is about 7 pounds) and my opinion is that Vista is a piece of crap for the processor and disk that I have on that laptop. I think that performance is better on desktops with quad-core processors and high-performance disks.

Apple’s new MacBook and MacBook Pros (15 inch) look great. If Apple had the MacBook this past summer, I would have gone with that.