Have you ever actually used OSX? Tiger has several features that are not available in Windows Xp (at least not without installing extra third-party applications), even though several are features that Microsoft intends to provide in Vista. I believe that OSX is “objectively” better than its alternatives, keeping in mind a certain user group of course. I don’t like to compare with Windows Xp Home version, since that’s a purposely cut down version of the professional version. But if you’re planning on using your computer for other things, they come out neck-and-neck in the benchmarks.”ĭid you ever check the price of Microsoft Windows Xp Professional? Even an OEM version? That is a lot higher than the 100 dollar (even though I believe it’s more like 125 dollar) for OSX. And, just incase there’s anyone in the room who hasn’t paid any attention in the past ten years, a Mac is not a good choice for a gamer.
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But still, I would have wished that they might have said something like, “If you want to do graphics/video work, obviously, the MacBook Pro can’t be a good choice until there’s some software support. I guess their goal was to provide a single winner at the end, and paying attention to important details and what the benchmarks mean for different tasks is obviously going to make that impossible.
They didn’t really pause to mention that the Doom benchmark is different from the others in that it is mostly a test of graphics card performance. One thing that struck me is that in the benchmark phase, the MacBook Pro came close for all the “traditional” benchmarks, while the wins for the Acer were for Photoshop and video compression, where the MacBook was at an obvious disadvantage since it had to run the benchmark in emulation, and in a video game.