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MacBook Pro Reviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the where-is-our-review-copy dept.

phaedo00 writes "Ars Technica has an in-depth review of the MacBook Pro that compares performance with a Dell Inspiron running a hacked version of OS X 10.4.4: 'Yes, you read that right. We at the Orbiting HQ were able to have some benchmarks run on an acquaintance's Dell Inspiron 9100 with a 3.2GHz Pentium 4 HT chip running OS X 10.4.4, and decided that including the benchmarks from this machine would prove to be both interesting if not illustrative of what non-Apple x86 machines may be capable of if they could run Mac OS X (legally). Please keep in mind that the data from the Dell laptop is for illustrative purposes only and that no one at the Ars Orbiting HQ hacked a machine. As David Letterman says, this is not a competition. No wagering.'"

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  1. Hee. by sammy+baby · · Score: 4, Funny
    From the second page of the article:
    Speaking of bedrooms, and not in the least bit tongue-in-cheek, I can see the built-in iSight as a new and even easier means for amateur, uh... adult photos... to be taken and sent around the Internet. I, for one, welcome our new Pr0nCam overlords. Okay, not really.

    *sniff* It's like the reviewer was my long lost sibling!.
    1. Re:Hee. by Coming+soon! · · Score: 5, Funny

      iPatch, couldn't resist...

  2. Re:What about the noise? by iion_tichy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Don't know about the iBook G4, but all the other machines you mention have fans in them. Or do you mean fan as in "worshipper"?

  3. Re:Head to head against Winders and *nix by steve_bryan · · Score: 3, Funny

    did they figure out how to put in a second mouse button yet?

    Give the man a kewpie doll, he has hit a 10 on the lameosity meter. This ranks up there with the claim that you can't format floppies in the background on the Mac. Multitasking in OS X is smoother and more capable than what I get on my XP box and second, you can buy any industry standard USB multibutton mouse and it works just fine in OS X and with all applications. This has not been an issue for many years. It is also worth noting that the screwups I experience are on my PC rather than my Mac.

  4. Re:Head to head against Winders and *nix by Ford+Prefect · · Score: 3, Funny

    This ranks up there with the claim that you can't format floppies in the background on the Mac.

    Don't be silly. I just tried formatting a floppy disk in the background on my brand new MacBook Pro, and it simply didn't work. I then tried formatting one in the foreground. Still no luck!

    ...

    I suppose it might help if I actually had a floppy disk drive connected to it... ;-)

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  5. Re:I am in love by ejacqui · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sup Hank. ;)