Go big or go home
So I’m about to get a hiring bonus for recruiting some friends to come work for the great company I work for, Bazaarvoice, and I’m trying to decide what to do with the extra funds. We’re still HDTV-less, a feat growing quite rare here in the US, so that’s almost a given, but what I’m really thinking of doing is getting a new laptop.
The big question is whether to get some big iron that can do my photo and video editing, or a simple netbook fr what I do most: web browsing and email. Thoughts?
October 30th, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Buy anything with an Apple on it; you can’t go wrong. After spending three and a half years with the 13″ Macbook, my next laptop will probably be the 15″ Macbook Pro, solely for the extra screen real-estate.
I like the size of the 13″ because it’s easy to carry and use on your lap/table/desk but sometimes I’d like more screen area, especially for development.
October 31st, 2009 at 8:23 am
Thanks Jessie. I was looking at the 13 inch macbooks, but wasn’t sure if they’re powerful enough or if I should shell out the extra money for the pro. The other trick with getting a mac is that I’d need to get Parallels so that I could run Windows since our copy of Photoshop & Premiere is the windows version. But that seems reasonable. Have you done much with video on your macbook?