Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 23rd Feb 2006 18:33 UTC, submitted by jfpoole
Geek Patrol benchmarked a MacBook Pro and a PowerBook G4. Not surprisingly, they concluded: "The MacBook Pro outperformed the PowerBook G4 in almost every benchmark. Since all of the MacBook Pro's baseline scores are over 100, it even outperformed our baseline system, a Power Mac G5 1.6GHz! The only benchmark where the PowerBook G4 outperformed the MacBook Pro, Stdlib Allocate, depends more on library performance than raw hardware performance. If you're upgrading from a PowerBook G4 (or even an early Power Mac G5), you'll certainly notice how much faster the MacBook Pro is, especially with multi-threaded applications."
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RE[2]: More Power in no POWER_PC
by kaelodest on Thu 23rd Feb 2006 22:40
in reply to "RE: More Power in no POWER_PC"
Member since:2006-02-12
LOL Of course I am staying Mac. I could not imagine having to use windows. Not to be a hater but win32 is completely irrelevant for what I need to do. And once I get used to security and having *everything* that I need access to in '~/' then Windows seems alien
Once in a while I boot OS nine on one of the older G3's to throw carrier landings in F/A 18 Hornet (by graphisim) or get shot down by Mig29's in Falcon 4.0. All of my other games run Native in 10 for PPC
So for work and fun I am all about the MacOS it is about the experience not the chip.
Member since:
2005-09-21
Sorry, but I'm confused. Are you buying another MAC or going over to Windows?