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12-06-2007, 08:48 PM
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Mac runs Vista faster then PC
 http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,13...s/article.html For people who appreciate finer laptop accoutrements such as a backlit keyboard and a slot-fed DVD drive, Apple has crafted another tasty offering in the form of the 17-inch MacBook Pro. Sleek, powerful, and able to run Windows as well as the Mac operating system, the MacBook Pro makes a strong case for becoming anyone's ultimate notebook. Equipped with a 2.4-GHz Core 2 Duo T7700 processor, the maximum 4GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, and nVidia's new top-of-the-line notebook graphics card, the nVidia GeForce 8600M GT, our $2949 test unit set new speed records (as of 11/23/2007). The MacBook Pro outperformed the rest of the notebooks we tested, all of which claim Windows as their primary--nay, their only--operating system. We loaded Windows Vista Home Premium on the Apple notebook, and it snagged a WorldBench 6 Beta 2 score of 88. In games it achieved a blazing frame rate of 141 frames per second in Far Cry (with antialiasing turned off). At 6.6 pounds and just 1 inch thick, the MacBook Pro is the lightest 17-inch notebook available. But it has no memory card slots and only three USB ports, and it comes configured with an ExpressCard/34 slot instead of the more versatile ExpressCard/54 slot. Though it has Bluetooth and 802.11n Wi-Fi, built-in cellular broadband is not an option. On the other hand, video editors will be happy to have not one but two FireWire ports. Battery life was disappointing: Apple pegs it at 5.7 hours on one charge, but in our tests we got less than 2 hours, 45 minutes. Nevertheless, the MacBook Pro is elegantly designed and remarkably mobile for a 17-inch notebook.
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12-06-2007, 10:03 PM
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do some searches of the board, this question came up a month or so ago
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12-06-2007, 10:26 PM
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Depends on how you look at it. This review is about a laptop with a CPU: 2.4-GHz Core 2 Duo T7700 which was not available with the first MBP's and Vista was not available either so it can't be old news.
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12-06-2007, 11:43 PM
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The comparison is nonsense, really. It's like the commercial that compared the 3.5L Ford Edge to the 3.0i BMW X5 (nothing to brag about with 1/2 a liter advantage that only get to 60mph 200ms quicker). Same holds true for the mac comparison. It's apples and oranges (pun intended). Tell me about it when both (mac and pc) laptops are set up similarly.
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12-07-2007, 02:14 AM
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Who said the comparison wasn't done on both (mac and pc) laptops that were set up similarly?
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12-07-2007, 03:03 AM
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12-07-2007, 06:22 AM
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I agree, and the fact that I personally ran Vista on my MacBook Pro and HP Pavillion (where the HP had the same ram and a faster chip) and Vista is faster on the Mac.
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12-07-2007, 04:57 PM
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12-07-2007, 07:30 PM
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I hesitate to post anything on Apple because there are some "Apple fans" out there but felt that I needed to post this info from Engadget. Please note that the bolding is mine:
"So there's a bit of grumbling on the internets that PC World, like, totally sold out and lied about the MacBook Pro being the fastest Vista laptop they ever tested (presumably just so they could get mentioned in that new Apple commercial, right?) shortly before the staff went cow tipping and passed out drunk in a public park. The reality is PC World apparently hadn't tested a laptop faster than the MacBook Pro at the time, and it wasn't until weeks later they tested the Eurocom D900C Phantom-X, which handily bested Apple's lappie by a broad margin."
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