MacBook Pro Reviewed

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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Re:Head to head against Winders and *nix

[Senzei]

...and who amongst the Windows crowd will be able to respond?

I would assume that they would need to care first. Given my experience with the average mac user (term used loosely) I would rather have them on an OS I completely do not know. Makes getting out of fixing their screwups much easier for me.

"What, you have a problem with your mac? Sorry, i'm all thumbs. Speaking of which did they figure out how to put in a second mouse button yet?" *grin*