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MacBook Pro Benchmarks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the no-surprises-here dept.

jfpoole writes "Geek Patrol has benchmarked a MacBook Pro and a PowerBook G4 using Geekbench, their benchmarking utility. It's impressive to see how well the MacBook Pro performs compared to the PowerBook G4 (at least when it comes to Universal Binary performance)." Their benchmarks aren't particularly surprising, and they lack the most important benchmark: Frames Per Second during Molten Core Combat (or as it is more commonly referred to since I made it up 5 seconds ago, the FPSDMCCMark, which is the only number I'm waiting for).

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  1. Feline Poop! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Fuck you, all you motherfucking LambdaMOOers, you! That's right, fuck y'all! Damn!

  2. yep, great benchmarks, but lacking in features. by plasmacutter · · Score: -1, Troll

    lets see here, what was it again, no firewire 800 for one thing, that's standard on powerbooks, what were the others? a/v jacks?

    oh well the point is that vital features were "removed" from the macbook, and they added in a DRM'ed chipset.

    DRM nullifies all benchmarks because benchmarks mean nothing if you can't use that power as you wish.

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    1. Re:yep, great benchmarks, but lacking in features. by plasmacutter · · Score: -1, Troll

      funny, speak the truth about anything else on slashdot and get +4 insightful, speak the truth about apple doing something wrong and the jobsites descend upon you in droves with their -1 "troll" mods.

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    2. Re:yep, great benchmarks, but lacking in features. by plasmacutter · · Score: -1, Troll

      OH keep modding down.. hurts sooo good you enemies of truth.. guess what, i've amassed a great deal of karma to burn pointing out unfair moderation =)

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  3. I was going to buy a Mac by bobcat7677 · · Score: 0, Troll

    This article might have pushed me over the edge. But since the server was slashdotted before it even it that main page I never got the chance. Guess I'll have to stick with WinTel hardware now.

  4. Desperate Need For Validation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    It is really sad to watch the Mac community desperately keep coming up with these 'see! we were'nt given the boot by IBM. we WANTED to change to x86' benchmark stories.

    I don't know what the hell you guys are going to be like when Apple dumps the x86 hardware and goes software only. Don't act surprised, you know it's coming...