‘PC World’: Fastest Vista laptop is a MacBook Pro
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 1, 2007 at 12:33pm
The fastest Windows Vista notebook PC World tested this year—and, in fact, ever—is a MacBook Pro. The publication makes this observation in its annual round-up of laptops. The MB Pro gets a score of 81 or “Very good.”
“Not a Dell, not a Toshiba, not even an Alienware,” PC World notes. “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.”
PC World evaluated the 17-inch/2.4GHz model. Among the MacBook Pro’s “pros” were that it’s thin and light for a big notebook. Among the “cons”: the hard drive isn’t user accessible.
“Equipped with a 2.4-GHz Core 2 Duo T7700 processor, the maximum 4GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive, and nVidia’s new top-of-the-line notebook graphics card, the nVidia GeForce 8600M GT, our $2949 test unit set new speed records,” PC World notes. “The MacBook Pro outperformed the rest of the notebooks we tested, all of which claim Windows as their primary—nay, their only—operating system. We loaded Windows Vista Home Premium on the Apple notebook, and it snagged a WorldBench 6 Beta 2 score of 88. In games it achieved a blazing frame rate of 141 frames per second in Far Cry (with antialiasing turned off).”
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
