MacBook Pro Fastest Core Duo Notebook
Posted by MonkeyClaw on 23 March 2006 - 00:41 · 3 comments & 680 views
According to a series of benchmarks, out of all Intel powered Macs, the MacBook Pro faired fastest in testing Photoshop CS 2 via Rosetta. What is interesting is that though in Rosetta, the Photoshop CS 2 benchmarks on the MacBook Pro proved faster than its Windows native counterparts in terms of performance when compared.

What this means is that once an Intel native version of Photoshop for OS X is available, performance should be even better considering the lack of any translation/emulation.

In addition to this, GearLog also tested Windows XP performance on all Intel Macs. Though there are very few readily available drivers out for the OS on Mac hardware, benchmarks were impressive.

News source: Macworld UK





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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by LTD on 23 Mar 2006 - 01:42
Indeed.

Even a Mac Mini Core Duo can manage higher-end tasks well (Pro series of Mac software), when the RAM is upped to 2gig, using Intel-native versions of that software.

Expect performance to increase of even entry-level models when native versions of software hit the shelves. :-)
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by zeta_immersion on 23 Mar 2006 - 14:40
nice, people should look at macs more (for work purposes and things) ...
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