Posts by Pollisand

Um, no. The new 17 inch MacBook Pro has a non replaceable battery. The 15 inch MBP and the two unibody MacBooks have easily replaceable batteries.

The MacBook will do HD. However, you must make sure that your camera does not rely on Firewire (aka IEEE 1394 or i-Link) for the transfer of video unless you're going to get the 999 MacBook and not the 1299 or 1599. The new unibody...

The MacBook is just as good at video and design as the MacBook Pro. The only things the MacBook really can't do over the pro are 3D and real time effects rendering that rely on the video card. Otherwise everything is done by the CPU...

GPT was made for EFI. If Apple's EFI is compliant with the standard it will support it fully.

The GPT spec included MBR from the beginning, IIRC, for backwards compatibility. You "should" be able to repartition and format.

I didn't realise the OP wanted to keep OS X. I meant to reformat the whole thing with the OS X install CD and then install windows.

Having been a long time since I've installed windows...is it possible to format the drive using the OS X install CD—creating the single partition with GPT—and then use the Windows CD to format to NTFS? It shouldn't have to...

Seriously? Why would you buy a MacBook Pro only to run Windows? Such a waste. Won't the partitioning tool on the Windows install disk get rid of the OS X partition?

The MacBook Pro would be a fine machine, however, you'll have to use an equivalent to Autocad and Rhino or you'll need to install Windows on the computer and dualboot. Virtual Machines can NOT handle 3D very well. The glossy screens...

The MacBook has integrated graphics but discreet graphics are not necessary for photo or video editing.