macreamer said:
Like I am going to go through the Trillions of PC laptop Manufactures to find that out.
If there is not one out there thats is not as good as or better in that regard.
There most certainly will be one in the very near future that is even better.
There are laptop PC's that have better higher Res Screens have longer life Batteries, have the superior Nvidia Graphics card. So thats not a bad start. (yes im looking at other Laptops and will get a 17" Mac book Pro because its the only choice i have to use Mac OSX).
I have seen bench marks where the PC Laptop has been better then the same spec MBP. (although same spec, there is nothing in it)
The only thing I am worried about is so far the MBP have been a little dodgy to say the least.
That concerns me as i have read nothing bad of the Centrino Duo Laptops, they seem to be bullet proof.
Lets hope the 17" MBP have most the bugs ironed out.
With my student discount the price is looking a little better anyway...
If it was out there you wouldn't have to look far. Every PC fanboy from here to Timbuktu would be waving it in the collective face of every Apple user.
Okay I'm just gonna say it the MBP is pound for pound the best notebook on the market. Just think about it. Sure you can have a notebook with a higher res screen, I even heard there is a 19 in out there somewhere. Sure you can have a notebook with 2 HDD's. Sure you can have a notebook with more than 2GB of RAM or faster RAM. You can have one with an 'iSight.' You can have one with TV capability. There are dozens of PC laptops that can boast some of those features. None of them have:
The 2.16 GHz, 17-inch MacBook Pro, for a suggested retail price of $2,799 (US), includes:
17-inch widescreen 1680 x 1050 LCD display with 300 cd/m2 brightness;
2.16 GHz Intel Core Duo processor;
1GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, expandable to 2GB;
120GB Serial ATA hard drive running at 5400 rpm, with Sudden Motion Sensor;
a slot-load 8x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)optical drive;
PCI Express-based ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 with 256MB GDDR3 memory;
DVI-out port for external display (VGA-out adapter included, Composite/S-Video out adapter sold separately);
built-in Dual Link support for driving Apple 30-inch Cinema HD Display;
built-in iSight video camera;
Gigabit Ethernet port;
built-in AirPort Extreme wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR;
ExpressCard/34 expansion card slot;
three USB 2.0 ports, one FireWire 800 port, and one FireWire 400 port;
one audio line in and one audio line out port, each supporting both optical digital and analog;
Scrolling TrackPad and illuminated keyboard with ambient light sensor;
the infrared Apple Remote;
68 watt hour lithium polymer battery; and
85 watt Apple MagSafe Power Adapter.
In a package 1 inch thick under 7 lbs. clad in aluminum not plastic. That runs quiet enough to be used in professional audio environment Hmm, what else, theres that nice software package, the Unix undercarriage. A first class OS with a new one on the way next year. Hardware and software integration not seen anywhere else industry wide. Now you can boot 3 operating systems. Can't be beaten.