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[Marchione]

Work is letting me package a computer this go round and It looks like i am able to get a MAC.anyone out there use a MACBOOK or a MBP to play poker on ?what about running pokertracker thru boot-camp ?cheersyes shipament to vick12

[Ko8e34]

I use a MBP. Stars works fine and I also use parallels for Absolute Poker. Windows runs very smoothly on my machine, although I havent used Poker Tracker. I would definitely go with the Pro version as it is faster, bigger screen, (if you multitable) and looks nicer.

[vbnautilus]

Ko8e34, on Friday, February 15th, 2008, 12:48 AM, said:

I use a MBP. Stars works fine and I also use parallels for Absolute Poker. Windows runs very smoothly on my machine, although I havent used Poker Tracker. I would definitely go with the Pro version as it is faster, bigger screen, (if you multitable) and looks nicer.

I also use a MBP. Poker tracker works under Parallels. Mac > Windows

[Marchione]

i am getting screen freezes my current windows based system - i understand screen freezes dont happen on MACS?

[Ko8e34]

Marchione, on Friday, February 15th, 2008, 12:53 AM, said:

i am getting screen freezes my current windows based system - i understand screen freezes dont happen on MACS?

Force Quit FTW

[Marchione]

Ko8e34, on Friday, February 15th, 2008, 12:54 AM, said:

Force Quit FTW

i am 32 > WTF does that mean ?

[Ko8e34]

Marchione, on Friday, February 15th, 2008, 12:57 AM, said:

i am 32 > WTF does that mean ?

If a program is frozen and not responding, you can force quit the program, which simply terminates its processes and doesn't freeze up your whole machine. Very very nice feature especially when you go from PC to Mac.

[wsox8]

I don't have much experience.. but I've got an HP right now and was thinking of getting a mac for my next laptop, whenever that is.

[Syntonic]

I play PS on a Macbook Pro, too.Don't have any complaints - I ran vista for awhile too, and everything worked great.Honestly the best part of the MBP is the screen; it has bar-none the best looking screen I've seen on a laptop. Glossy FTW. (For the win! )

[Marchione]

Ko8e34, on Friday, February 15th, 2008, 1:05 AM, said:

If a program is frozen and not responding, you can force quit the program, which simply terminates its processes and doesn't freeze up your whole machine. Very very nice feature especially when you go from PC to Mac.

thank you for speaking old man for me !It looks like i am going with the macbook> upgrading to the 2g of ram and the 160 gig hard drive.

[Marchione]

dude ~ i thought it ment F*CK THE World .... lol thanks

[Kaveros]

Really, you don't want a mac.They are very expensive. I could get a PC for $700 that has the same power as a $2500 mac.Ontop of that when you want to upgrade, you can't! Well you can, but you have to pay the retailer a shite load of money to do it.Also the resale value plummets when you buy it, I have heard it can drop upward of 110%.There is no upside to it either. "It just works". Yeah, so does a PC, what is your point?

[Adam Junglen]

Before I became an online professional poker player (and therefore before PS/FTP worked on Macs, though that's not too relevant for me anyways), I owned a Powerbook (Mac laptop). I loved it. It hurt me to sell it in order to buy a Dell Inspiron laptop, but I needed it to play online. At any rate, money isn't an issue now, and I bought a MBP around 6-8 months ago. Boy, did I miss OSX. I forgot how easy the Operation System was to use. The main reason I love my Macbook Pro is because it's so light and thin - therefore it's incredibly easy to travel with. When you spend the kind of time in an airport that I do, it's really nice not having the haul around a heavy laptop. It's perfect for traveling, and it's my main media hub. It works great with my iPods (all 4 of them!), iPhone, and PS and FTP now run natively on OSX, so if I feel like playing the Sunday Million on the road, I can. But for the most part, I don't play much online poker when I'm on the road. Although with most Windows machines I have had some issues (crashes, etc), the most recent Dell I've purchased hasn't given me too much trouble, though. The main reason why Mac's are becoming so popular is because their operating system is truly years ahead of Windows Vista, not to mention they look pretty stylish. They're really easy to use and for the average user, that's really all they want. Not everyone knows how to setup (and maintain) an anti-vrius program, and they're nearly non-existent on Mac's. I still use my Dell along with the 30in/20in monitor setup as my "workstation", but when I'm not playing poker I'm probably on my Mac.

[Marchione]

Adam Junglen, on Friday, February 15th, 2008, 2:40 AM, said:

Before I became an online professional poker player (and therefore before PS/FTP worked on Macs, though that's not too relevant for me anyways), I owned a Powerbook (Mac laptop). I loved it. It hurt me to sell it in order to buy a Dell Inspiron laptop, but I needed it to play online. At any rate, money isn't an issue now, and I bought a MBP around 6-8 months ago. Boy, did I miss OSX. I forgot how easy the Operation System was to use. The main reason I love my Macbook Pro is because it's so light and thin - therefore it's incredibly easy to travel with. When you spend the kind of time in an airport that I do, it's really nice not having the haul around a heavy laptop. It's perfect for traveling, and it's my main media hub. It works great with my iPods (all 4 of them!), iPhone, and PS and FTP now run natively on OSX, so if I feel like playing the Sunday Million on the road, I can. But for the most part, I don't play much online poker when I'm on the road. Although with most Windows machines I have had some issues (crashes, etc), the most recent Dell I've purchased hasn't given me too much trouble, though. The main reason why Mac's are becoming so popular is because their operating system is truly years ahead of Windows Vista, not to mention they look pretty stylish. They're really easy to use and for the average user, that's really all they want. Not everyone knows how to setup (and maintain) an anti-vrius program, and they're nearly non-existent on Mac's. I still use my Dell along with the 30in/20in monitor setup as my "workstation", but when I'm not playing poker I'm probably on my Mac.

Adam if poker doesnt work out for you - being a mac sales person would be a no brainer- you just sold me on it.how did you run in Aus ?

[Adam Junglen]

Marchione, on Friday, February 15th, 2008, 5:51 AM, said:

Adam if poker doesnt work out for you - being a mac sales person would be a no brainer- you just sold me on it.how did you run in Aus ?

The highlight of Australia was when I swapped a 5% with Jeff when he won the Heads up event for $100k. Lol, it was a crappy trip poker-wise, but it's all good. I recently moved out and have been running pretty good online, plucking a 5k HU SNG from Dario and have won about 20k total in online tourneys the last week.

[Marchione]

you dont really play much online/live cash do you ?

[Adam Junglen]

Marchione, on Friday, February 15th, 2008, 6:04 AM, said:

you dont really play much online/live cash do you ?

No not really. Occasionally some of the cap games on FTP, and on smaller sites (usually better action there).

[Marchione]

Yo adam thanks for taking the time to post and welcome to FCP ...

[Adam Junglen]

Marchione, on Friday, February 15th, 2008, 6:31 AM, said:

Yo adam thanks for taking the time to post and welcome to FCP ...

No problem, and thank you very much.

[benhoug]

I play on Stars and used to play on Full Tilt on both my PowerBook and my MacMini. No complaints here. I used Mac Poker Pro for tracking software for the trial period and it worked great. Haven't bought the full version yet, but I'm sure I will.The online poker scene for Mac-users is 1,000 % better than it was even a year ago. Go for it.Ben