My next computer... MacBook, MacBook Pro or PC Laptop

Which computer to buy??

I desperately need a laptop computer to enable me to utilise the two hours a day I spend on the train going to and from work.

I have been struggling with the question of which computer to buy.

I have been examining the options and deciding between the various models of MacBook and MacBook Pro and also being tempted by the much cheaper proces of similar hardware in the PC world.

My problem is that I must be able to run several windows programs on whatever laptop that I eventually end up getting. So my line of thought goes something like this:

1. My first preference is to buy a Mac laptop computer of some sort and find a way to run Windows on it. My preference for the variety of Windows is XP, just because it is so much less bloated and more reliable than Vista.
2. Alternatively I will spend way less money and buy a PC laptop, and then I might try to find a way to install OS X on the PC.

The search goes on...

What"s the easiest way to run Windows Programs on my Mac

I'm still experimenting with both of these methods and I'll let you know how they go in a future post.

• If you have a newer Intel processor based Mac then there are a number of ways that you can go about running windows on your Mac computer, depending on what you wanted to achieve. Probably the easiest way is to use Bootcamp Assistant that comes installed on your mac when you buy.
  
  All you need to do is run Bootcamp Assistant, select the partition size you would like to assign to your windows operation system and click continue. The assistant program then creates a partition of the size you specified and prompts you to insert the installation disk for windows.
  
  
• If you have a Power PC based Mac based on a G4 or a G5 processor see this article - Whats the best way to run Windows Programs on my Mac 0S X 10.4.11 PPC? - macosx.com