Getting a Macbook

1) can you use the isight for msn in windows xp(or
what can you use the webcam for in windows what
programs?

The latest BootCamp beta has support for iSight in XP.

2) Is it easy to upgrade hard drive to 100 gb in 1
year or so?

Yes.

3) Is 60gb enough for grade 12 and university?

For simple school stuff? sure. Unless you are heavily into iTunes, movies, and the like.

4) Should I wait till leopard comes out, instead of
upgrading to leopard and ilife 07 in 6 months or so?

If you can live without a computer, wait. If you need one now, its as good a time as any.

5) How do you right click with only one button on the
trackpad

there are a couple ways; I use 2 fingers on the trackpad and click on the trackpad button-you can also hold down a key while clicking.

6) what is the battery life using wirless internet?

It varies based on what you are doing-watching a DVD will burn through your battery in 3 hours or less-just browsing? I get 4+ hours usually.

7) what is iwork and what do you get with it?

Pages, which is a document processor like Word and Keynote, which is like Powerpoint.

8) can any applications from 10.2.8 run on tiger?

depends.

9) how come macs are alot more than pcs for what your
getting? I saw a gateway 17inch, 240gb, 1gbram, 128
graphics for 200 more than an macbook.

Does it run OS X?

10) can you use for example a scanner in windows
using usb?

Depends.

And last one: I have a program interwin dvd creater
for my old laptop (windows xp) it came with it and I
have no dics to instal it on my new xp mac? is there
a way I can put this on?(i will do a fresh instal of
windows professional and sell it!)

probably no. unless you can burn it to a CD.

kjk did a pretty good job, but I'm going to elaborate on a few of his points.

7) what is iwork and what do you get with it?

iWork is Apple's Producitity software. Pages is a word processor/page layout program. Kind of like a cross between Word and Publisher. It can make some pretty impressive documents and can open/edit/save documents in the Microsoft Word format.

Keynote is presentation software, like PowerPoint, but it makes much nice looking presentations. It also provides nice options to export your presentation. For example, you can export it to iDVD, burn it on a DVD, and play it over a set top DVD player using the remote to control your slides. It can also open/edit/save PowerPoint files, though compatability is a bit mixed.

9) how come macs are alot more than pcs for what your getting? I saw a gateway 17inch, 240gb, 1gbram, 128 graphics for 200 more than an macbook.

Macs have a high price for a few reasons. You usually get a lot of nice things inluded that aren't standard on PCs. These include a built-in webcam, a remote for a media interface (FrontRow), bluetooth, iLife software (iPhoto, iDVD, iMovie, etc.) Also, they are usually built very well and have above-average battery life for laptops. OS X also includes a lot of nice software.

10) can you use for example a scanner in windows using usb?
Though not guaranteed to work, most USB devices work fine in OS X.

BUT........
One thing you really need to ask yourself is "Am I actually going to use my Mac as a Mac?" What I'm saying is, it's stupid to pay the extra money for a MacBook just to run Windows XP on it all the time. Sure it would be a cool looking laptop, but it's still just a Windows computer. If you don't plan on using Mac OS X around 75% of the time, I would just get a Windows computer. The HP DV series seems to be pretty good.

2) Is it easy to upgrade hard drive to 100 gb in 1
year or so?

Yes.

3) Is 60gb enough for grade 12 and university?

For simple school stuff? sure. Unless you are heavily
into iTunes, movies, and the like.

Sound advice. Possibly cheaper to not upgrade the HD but buy an external HD to store data and backups.

Instead of upgrading my macbook from 80gig-120gig, I brought a 160gig external HD, saved 10 bucks and ended up with twice the space.

Just food for thought here.

5) How do you right click with only one button on

the

trackpad

there are a couple ways; I use 2 fingers on the
trackpad and click on the trackpad button-you can
also hold down a key while clicking.

Also, supports "right-click" functionality in mice. If you attach a normal scroll-wheel mouse or if you buy a mighty mouse - right click is supported.

And last one: I have a program interwin dvd

creater

for my old laptop (windows xp) it came with it and

I

have no dics to instal it on my new xp mac? is

there

a way I can put this on?(i will do a fresh instal

of

windows professional and sell it!)

probably no. unless you can burn it to a CD.

I think once you've played with iMovie HD and iDVD you will forget what app's windows has to offer. From my point of view my windows based movie creators didn't even come close to half as good as the iLife packaged apps. Even more so because of the "big picture" thinking that Apple has used where each app integrates with the other.

IMHO, Microsoft has a lot of catching up to do... I qualify this by saying that I've had my mac a couple of months and I'd never used one before then - I was, historically, always a windows user. Not anymore!!

Bootcamp has removed some of the pressure to stay in a windows environment...
But, noone other than you really knows what you require to do what you need to do. Be honest with yourself on the topic. There's big bucks involved in buying new hardware and software - and it's even more applicable if someone else is covering the bill. 😉