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Apple MacBook Pro 'Fastest Windows XP Notebook'?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dear-apple-we-need-new-laptops-xoxo dept.

rgraham writes "The Register has a great opening line in a recent article, "Want the fastest Windows XP Core Duo notebook? Then buy a Mac. According to benchmarks carried out by website GearLog, Apple's MacBook Pro running Windows XP is a better Adobe Photoshop rig than any other Core Duo laptop on the market." GearLog ran the same tests that were run by PC Magazine with the Mac coming out on top."

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  1. Re:Best tool for the job by cei · · Score: 0, Redundant

    We'll have to wait for Adobe to code a Universal Binary build of Photoshop before any real comparisons can be made.

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  2. Re:AMD by kyouteki · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Core Duo does -NOT- have EM64T support. It's successor core will, but the Yonah does not.

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  3. Why in the world... by rice_burners_suck · · Score: 0, Redundant
    ...would you buy a Mac, which comes with such an elegant operating system, and then install the clunky decrepid piece of junk called Windows on it?

    I could understand if VMware worked on the Mac, to run Windows on VMware... I have come to this conclusion because when Windows is in control of your computer, you lose. That's why it's called Windows. It wins, you lose. But when a reliable program is in control of Windows and Windows is not in control, then you win. In such a case, it should be called Losedows, because Losedows loses and you win.