Apple suggests Mac users to install antivirus software

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steven787 said:

goddog said:

Jo21 said:

well its the easiest operating system to hack.

EDIT: bullshit, i find hard to believe macbooks are faster than overclocked alienwares. and gamming pcs.

and as now vista is more secure than mac OS, slower YEs, but more secure.

hardest to hack system is ubuntu and linux counterparts.

 

found it, though its a year and change old, not 9 months.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/136649-3/in_pictures_the_most_notable_notebooks_of_2007.html

Fastest: Apple MacBook Pro

The fastest Windows Vista notebook we've tested this year (through 10/25/07) 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.

and it was pcworld, not pcmag... 

 

Best gaming performance: Alienware Area-51 m5750

With a 256MB discrete graphics card, a 2.33-GHz Core 2 Duo T7600 processor, and 2GB of RAM, the mobile Alienware really cooks at gameplay (though it cost $3269 when we tested it). It hit a frame rate of 126 frames per second in Far Cry at 1280 by 1024 resolution and 32-bit color, leaving most other desktops in the dust. It has since been superseded by the Area-51 m9750.

That was not a top of the line Alienware.

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/product/29392/review/alienware_area51m_5750.html

Nov 20, 2006

The 5750 excels in raw speed: It set new PC World performance records, blazing through business applications to produce a WorldBench 5 score of 125

http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/product/30190/review/macbook_pro.html

Jul 25, 2007

We loaded Windows Vista Home Premium on the Apple notebook, and it snagged a WorldBench 6 Beta 2 score of 88...

Equipped with a 2.4-GHz Core 2 Duo T7700 processor, the maximum 4GB of RAM...

 

 

They weren't benchmarked with the same version and the Mac Book had double the RAM and a faster version of the Core 2 Duo, neither had an Extreme.  And it was a 8 month old Alienware they were comparing it to.

the 8 month old alien ware came out about the same time as that macbook pro, so there is nothing there to seem lopsided, and if i remember right the pro was sporting an extreme... though im going to have to go look up chip numbers listed, apple has a habit of not calling chips by the name that the manufacturers call them.  

while it does say this year, it also says ever if you read a little further, so both are covered and it rated the macbook higher.... 2 gigs was apples standered load out at the time.... you could get 3 gigs if you wanted now its been upped to 4... (prior ram limitation was chipset caused)

heh i do find it funny that the apple was 800 bucks less