Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 22nd Mar 2006 22:06 UTC
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. The site used a recently detailed technique that shoehorns the Microsoft operating system onto Intel-based Macs - a trick that last week won its formulators $13000 [EUR 10760] in prize money.
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Member since:2005-07-11
Intel is piss-eager to show off what an x86 platform could be without legacy restrictions, and the results speak for themselves.
Translation - You didnt actually compare the results for yourself, and you have no idea if and what these legacy resrictions are (or if they even exist from the end users perspective).
Edited 2006-03-23 08:53
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2005-11-14
Asus assembled the PBs. Their contribution starts and ends there; Apple designed the boards, chose the circuitry and gave Asus the blueprints. I've seen Asus laptops and they don't resemble Powerbooks under the hood.
The difference now is that Apple gave Intel the specs, the case blueprints and Intel essentially did the rest of the design process.
For all the other reasons for the switch, the repeated theme here is that Apple no longer has the mojo at building computers, and Motorola/IBM refused to partner enough to keep a competitive edge. Intel is piss-eager to show off what an x86 platform could be without legacy restrictions, and the results speak for themselves.
The irony here is that the MacBook Pros are only fractionally comparable to Dell laptops running patched versions of Tiger, but that they run Windows much faster than those same laptops.