The Fastest Windows Machine Is A Mac!
October 30th, 2007Picking up on my last post about the slothfulness of Windows Vista on a reasonably equipped PC, here is the ultimate anecdote. PC World magazine tested many notebooks throughout the year, and concluded that the fastest machine to run Vista, is a Mac. Specifically, the strongly geared Macbook Pro trumps offerings by leading PC manufacturers that offer only Windows-based systems (except perhaps, for Dell, who recently started experimenting with Linux distributions).
From the PC World article:
The fastest Windows Vista notebook we’ve tested this year is a Mac. Try that again: The fastest Windows Vista notebook we’ve tested this year–or for that matter, ever–is a Mac. Not a Dell, not a Toshiba, not even an Alienware. The $2419 (plus the price of a copy of Windows Vista, of course) MacBook Pro’s PC WorldBench 6 Beta 2 score of 88 beats Gateway’s E-265M by a single point, but the MacBook’s score is far more impressive simply because Apple couldn’t care less whether you run Windows.
A comparison of the twelve models featured in the review reveals the fact that the Macbook Pro is actually quite competitively priced - laying to rest the long standing tradition of Macintoshes being outrageously expensive. It is much cheaper than five of the featured notebooks, save for the fact that you have to purchase a copy of Windows separately in order to run it on the Mac.
