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I'm thinking of buying a Macbook, but I am clueless when it comes to memory/hard drive talk.

I'm looking at this page:
http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MB881LL/A?mco=MzE2NjMyOA

And I don't understand any of it. Which options would be the best?

I'm not going to have that much stuff on the Macbook itself, just like iTunes, Kodak software, and The Sims 2. haha.


Thank you :)

You need more RAM if you're going to be doing video editing or if you're going to use Photoshop or other Adobe products a lot. It will also make The Sims a bit faster. Otherwise, 2GB is fine and $150 is not worth the minimal speed increase 4GB will give you.

1GB is approximately the size of one feature-length movie or 250 songs. Additionally, each Sims expansion takes up about 5GB. 250GB would be best for you, I think.

In my opinion, the Macbook is not worth $999. For that amount, you could buy a top-of-the-line gaming PC. You're paying a lot extra for an Apple logo and OS X.

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(Rating: 5) Thanks, but are they really not worth it? Do you know any other high-quality laptops (because I'd really prefer a laptop)


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