The fastest Windows Vista notebook we've tested this year is a Mac. Try that again: The fastest Windows Vista notebook we've tested this year--or for that matter, ever--is a Mac. Not a Dell, not a Toshiba, not even an Alienware. The $2419 (plus the price of a copy of Windows Vista, of course) MacBook Pro's PC WorldBench 6 Beta 2 score of 88 beats Gateway's E-265M by a single point, but the MacBook's score is far more impressive simply because Apple couldn't care less whether you run Windows.
News source: PC World
News source: PC World
Look at the specs of the Macbook Pro and ffs..worldbench?? What a joke.
I've never heard of Worldbench being used in mainstream (much less a beta version of a benchmark), did they not have a copy of PCMark or 3DMark? WTF?
BTW macs run OSx much better than PC's fo sho !
BTW macs run OSx much better than PC's fo sho !
On yeah and 2,799.00 for one that has a 17" screen is so worth it..... I'd never pay $2,000 for a laptop, haven't paid $2,000 for a computer since 1995.....
so $2,800 plus vista is > $3,000 after tax
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BTW macs run OSx much better than PC's fo sho !
As for "Macs run OSX much better then PC's" first of a Mac is a "personal computer" don't fall for the marketing hype apple spews out... and IBM based computers (what your calling a PC) has massive amounts of more hardware then a Mac does so supporting all that, optimizing all that, and making it all work right is VERY hard so of course OSX will run different when you don't have complete hardware support that wasn't optimized for that OS.. even graphics cards get sometimes special apple firmware on them to make them run better on Mac's... Apple plays the small set of hardware optimization game... Windows and Linux based PC's can't do this because they have to be so generic
I don't see Macbooks claiming to run anything except OSX as their primary OS.
Just out of interest, can you install, say, Ubuntu 7.10 on a Macbook [Pro] running Parallels or otherwise?
Yes...
Very true, but I have yet to see any PC manufacturers that have matched both specs and form-factor with a MacBook Pro. I paid the premium for the form factor. Also, BootCamp is nice because it packages all the drivers into a very easy to install packag, unlike most PC manufacturers where you have to hunt and peck around on their website.
Last edited by EJocys on 31 Oct 2007 - 14:42
QFT
QFT
is that in the review?
And if ANY have actually have tried running Vista on an MBP, it is pretty damn fast, considering the machine was released about 4-5 months ago. As for the 8700GT/8800GT, I'm sure that will be in the next revision of the Macbook Pro.
Wow, what was this guy smoking?
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