“Now that the MacBook Pro 15-inch with Core 2 Duo ($2,499 direct) is here on my workbench, I can confidently say that its excellent performance and features, tied to a very solid operating system, were worth the wait. The new Core 2 Duo-equipped MacBook Pro has earned the Editors’ Choice award in the mainstream laptop arena,” Cisco Cheng reports for PC Magazine.
“Thanks to the MacBook Pro 15-inch’s 2GB of RAM and fast processor, my Photoshop scripts finished in 1 minute 25 seconds in Windows OS. Video editors will get the most out of the new Core 2 Duos, which show improvements of up to 25 percent over the previous Intel Core Duo processors. In the case of the MacBook Pro 15-inch, my video-encoding tests ran their course in 5 minutes 35 seconds, edging out the Alienware m5550 (5:43),” Cheng reports.
“As usual, you don’t have to worry about viruses and spyware with the OS 10 operating system, and you get some of the best bundled software out there with the iLife ’06 suite. The familiar Front Row interface and remote, the magnetic MagSafe power adapter, and your choice of a glossy or matte screen are all still there,” Cheng reports.
Cheng reports, “The Apple MacBook Pro 15-inch (Core 2 Duo) offers the performance and features of the best laptops on the market.”
Full article here.
Related MacDailyNews articles:
CNET: Apple MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo ‘provides great overall computing experience, at a premium price’ – November 03, 2006 (We dispute the “premium price” bit within the article)
Computerworld: Apple’s new MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo ‘one cool customer, fastest Apple laptop ever’ – November 02, 2006
Apple MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo dissection photos – October 30, 2006
Why MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo units are limited to 3 GB RAM – October 30, 2006
Apple redesigns, hides iSight indicator on MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo models – October 28, 2006
Apple does it again: New Macbook Pros much cheaper than Dell – October 25, 2006
Yager: New Apple MacBook Pro is ‘mobile landing pad for Leopard in plenty of time for Macworld Expo’ – October 24, 2006
Apple MacBook Pro notebooks go Intel Core 2 Duo; up to 39-percent faster – October 24, 2006
I have the Alienware m5550, so I have to wait a whole 8 seconds more…
But I can play videogames! BOOYAH!
Oh, and I paid way less as well for a higher quality built laptop.
“higher quality built” maybe you paid way less for the old edu as well?
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Yeah, except you can’t run OS X on an alien box.
Yeah, and all those free viruses, spyware, malware and zero day flaws.
Well done you!
And… you can always boot into XP for games… doh!
Alien,
What game can you play on your Alien that I can’t play on my MacBookPro? I boot Windows and play Battlefield, Call of Duty, CounterStrike, HalfLife, etc.
MW: Horse. Your horse is running away.
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What is the USA coming to, with all these game players? I’ll bet most of them are obese or high.
AlienApple,
Your a complete dumb ass, your a great example of a Microsoft Windows Butt Monkey Lemming Fan Dork Cult of Blind Ignorance Member.
Your shitty plastic Alien crap can’t run the superior Mac OS X. Not only does the MacBook Pro run the fast stable elegant powerful easy to use virus and spyware free OS X, it also runs Linux and crappy Windows, including games.
Looks like you made a poor decision, sucks to be you, ignorant boy.
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Ha! Ha!
I’m skinny… but high.
-c
MW: ‘level’ (up, 12,000 exp.)
Once upon a time, in Jr. High, I liked video games.
But then I discoverd sports and how healthy they made me feel, and the competition, no video game could ever touch.
I also started descovering girls, and uh yeah, video games quickly took a back seat.
So I ask, who are these nerds living in their darkroom holes!!!
Morons!!!
Get an xbox 360, wii or PS3 if you want to play games. It sad that windows users only have the “gaming” thing left to grasp onto, and the gaming thing is usually for people who dont matter in life, like stoners and uber geeks who wont get laid.
Pterson, it isn’t the hardware (your Powerbook) its the software, and not from Cupertino either…
Go get some pschychiatric help, quick.
Just a thought here.
Apple is a PC also (as in personal computer). So when Apple machines are the dominate type machine out there, I am sure PC magazine will be doing the same type articles as they are now, just with Apple being the focus vs Microsoft machines.
I just wonder what they will be saying about those people that still use gateway, dell, etc machines then???? “We just can’t figure out what kind of people still use these virus studded, spyware chocked machines when good equipment and software (Apple) is so available and at such a great price.” ????
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N.
Ah yes, Alienware. Cheap and cheesy plastic cladding molded in putrid glow-in-the-dark colors. The number one choice of all ten year old boys. And yes ‘ron’, you are correct. All those fat little gaming bastards stuff their Twinkies with doobie. And unfortunately, the USA is doomed.
I’m not a fan of Bill Gates by any stretch of the imagination. However, I’m pretty sure that he knows how to spell YOU’RE correctly.
I don’t want Area 51 on my laptop any more than I want some DA designer’s name on my ass.
Alienware used to mean something before it was bought by DuLL. But now that Apple machines are OS independent, why buy anything else? Seriously? That is a real question.
Window$ users: Get a clue in life. Buy a machine that will last 5-8 years, has a first class OS (that Mi¢ro$oft is trying to copy), runs all of the software you currently use inside Window$, and is able to run Linux. All in one beautiful package.
Go make Christmas a memorable one. Buy an Apple Macintosh.
Cynic821,
I don’t know man. I really don’t like the controllers on platform gaming machines.
First-person shooters without a mouse and keyboard? Awkward.
Hey AlienApple:
Why don’t you also tell us how your Chevy Nova cost you way less and is way better than a BMW. Right, and snails can fly!
It’s amazing how easy it is to piss off the Mac fanboi community, lol.
PWNED.
And only a 10year old MS fanboy would use the terms “lol” and “PWNED”
Dick
Are people really still using the term, PWNED?
Wow.
I haven’t seen that since playing that Quake III Arena mod, Urban Terror, in ’01.
I wish I was 12 again so my dad could buy me a way-too-expensive gaudy-ass Alienware ‘puter. “It will totally match the green neon under my pimpin’ Honda Civic my mom’s going to get me when I turn sweet 16.”
OK so I just configured an Alienware notebook to comparable spec as the 17 inch MBP and the PC was 50 bucks more expensive!
Sure you can get 1.6 gHz stripped down machine for a grand, but comparing like with like, Apple wins easily and with a higher res screen.