need to buy a laptop, ibook or PC laptop?

hello there, i'm thinking about buying a laptop but i'm getting seriously annoyed with windows being completely useless, and vista just being retarded.

i've worked with windows all my life and i'm thinking about an iBook, i have £1000 to spend, and i need to use it for gaming as well.

the PC laptop choice is this one; ASUS F8SV-A1 Intel Core 2 Duo T7500 (2.20GHz) 14" WXGA (1280x800) 1GB Memory + 1GB Turbo Memory 160GB HDD DVD Super Multi Nvidia 8600GT 256MB w / Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium [90NNPA3232238CQL350Y] | EXcaliberPC.com

which is a very nice spec but it has windows on it.

what i'm wondering is, am i better buying an ibook, or a PC laptop with linux on it? for gaming purposes as well as general smoothness of running everyday tasks.

any help would be greatly appreciated.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

i am pretty into my retro games, just not pc retro. Right now i'm mostly using ePSXe for playing PS1 games which i'm sure also works for linux . i don't really play that many PC games but its just the ones i want to play are usually towards the high end graphics cards. its just so its there if i want to play them, and i keep hearing how good the hardware is on an apple, so i thought it would work better.

how are apple laptops for playing games anyways? compatibility wise. the 13 inch iBooks all seem to have the intel x3100 card as well. i don't know but is that any good? because 15 inches is the next size up thats got nvidia cards but there a little too big.

so, is the hardware on an apple as good as everyone says it is? or is it just the fact that it's not running windows that makes it run so efficiently?

if i do stay with windows i can always dual boot linux anyways.

edit: is cadega any good for playing windows games or is that just a branch off of wine?

There's nowhere I can't reach.

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You better spend your money supporting the Wine team, instead of getting a copy of Cedega. A bunch of code thieves if you ask me...

that's shit. that infringes on computing professional ethics doesn't it? but i guess they're not part of the BSC or IEEE.

if there's a free alternative i'll usually use it because, 90% of the time it'll be twice as better, prime example with windows and linux.

thanks for the info, liquidacid, think i'll double boot with a linux/vista setup, found a nice dell with a 8600m gt card, fantastic.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.