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Quote: Originally Posted by M3rc Nate Look at it again, it says this: Dark grey bar in graph is 1920x1200 and light grey bar is 2560x1600. (Results are in Frames Per Second; ORANGE bar means SLOWEST.) That orange showing its the...

Quote: Originally Posted by sapporobabyrtrns Simple test, see if their 5 or 6 year old PC can run Win 7, and I will match that against my 5 year old iBook G4 with Leopard. Have you tried Windows 7? I'm pretty sure the match would be...

Quote: Originally Posted by M3rc Nate Not trying to argue with you or anything, but i read this article http://www.barefeats.com/mbpp22.html and its overall point was: WHAT DID WE LEARN? At least when it comes to 3D accelerated...

256 MB VRAM is a joke this day and age! It shouldn't even be present on any of the 15" models. 512 MB VRAM for the entry models and 1 GB for the more expensive ones. Especially now when Starcraft II is getting closer... Any ideas...

Quote: Originally Posted by Josh.B. I'm not sure that the benefits of big iron are tangible to most people. There are a lot of improvements over last year's models, and the improvements are stuff that people can relate to. If...

Quote: Originally Posted by Josh.B. Very few Apple customers have your needs. The light weight and the battery life are the most important things in a Mobile Device. Everything else is secondary. If you need raw performance, there...

Quote: Originally Posted by Josh.B. Apple has never been about building high-performance machines. The battery life of these MBPs is astounding. For a lot of people, that is all that matters. Raw computing power is a very small...

Quote: Originally Posted by apfel Again. You don't know what you are talking about. I am using a mac since years. But till today I am still using my pc for ripping, encoding, tagging. The software is better. If you know programs like...

Quote: Originally Posted by zorinlynx There is a WONDERFUL utility called Max that lets you transcode FLAC into ALAC (Apple Lossless), well, losslessly. It even does multiple files in parallel for amazing speed, and preserves all the...

Quote: Originally Posted by JLL Use Quick Look instead. That works somewhat, but it's not quite good enough in all cases. For example there doesn't seem to be an easy way to view each picture by its actual size. (except the first used...