For After Effects and Photoshop work, along with World of Warcraft: HP Pavilion dv9500t or Macbook Pro?

Coming this October, I plan on getting a new laptop (for the mobility), and I can't decide between the HP Pavilion dv9500t or the Macbook Pro. At the moment, I use a Compaq Presario V2000 with Windows XP. I will be doing some heavy After Effects and Photoshop work, working with DV video (and possibly HD video), and some light audio editing. Also, I plan to play World of Warcraft with it as well. I'm comfortable with Windows, but I can reasonably use Macs as well. I chose October because Vista SP1 is supposedly coming out then, as well as Apple's Leopard. I want this laptop to last me at least 2 years or so.

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I would get the macbook Pro, by October Apple's new OS will be released. As a developer that has used it, it is in my opinion better than Vista. I do have to say I have used Vista as Well. Apple's computers are designed with built-in APIs designed to run things like AfterEffects and Photoshop. On Windows Adobe has to make there own frameworks, so they don't get the full power and speed of built-in APIs. Also Mac video cards have quartz extreme which makes post effects like what Photoshop does much faster and better looking.

Also Apple computers "Just work" with cameras and camcorders. You hook it up, and it sees it, all you have to do is hit record.

As or the life time of it, I have had a iBook G4 for four years, and it still runs fine. I'm actually running leopard on it. Also my PowerMac G5 has lasted 3 years with out repairs or defragging.
Hands Down Macbook Pro If your doing PS And AE thats the only way to go As for WoW It has A pretty even match.
I have a Celeron M 1.6 ghz processor, 512 mb ram ,and a gma950 graphics card. The game runs really smoothly.

Photoshop worked well on my old computer. It had 126 mb ram and 333mhz processor.

Take the macbook

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