HAHAHA, A man after my own heart! However, they essentially tested the old PB 800 against a top line desktop. Yes, the Alienware is a laptop, I realize that, but it uses the fastest desktop chip, with a cut down Desktop Mobo and gets about 1 hour battery life while being huge and hot. The more apt comparison is between the alienware and the DP1.25, where the mac still gets spanked, but not as badly. More indicative of desktop X86 vs desktop mac than laptop comparos, iThink. A recent test of the fastest IBM Thinkpads and a 1Ghz Ti put the IBM ahead by a small margin in a few tests and the mac ahead in the rest with the mac ahead overall. For the price I still wouldn't buy it, but neither would i buy the thinkpad. In any event, there's a world of differnece between the P4 and the P4M on a mobile mobo.
Something else they miss when comparing mac to windows is system reliability, when i ran 95 and 98 the system would crash weekly. When i ran ME it crashed daily. Then when i ran XP applications would crash every couple of days with the system giving out every other month. with the mac it dont crash and apps open a lot quicker.
I would like to see a benchmark test against a windoze machine and an apple that tests compiling of code and multitasking, mac wins hands down.
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I would like to see a benchmark test against a windoze machine and an apple that tests compiling of code and multitasking, mac wins hands down.