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So, working at Best Buy (better buy, whatever you wanna call it) today, I was messing around with our PCs and trying to get a better feel for Win7. I was futzing around with this 2.8GHz i7 rig that had 8GB of DDR3 (for whatever reason didn't spec the ram speed in MHz) in it. Here are my reactions, not just to that machine but to all of the machines I played with.
1) Why does my penryn architecture core 2 duo at 2GHz macbook with 2GB of DDR3 (1066MHz) respond more quickly than EVERY machine I played with, including the i7, when my machine has both less RAM and a slower processor (we can ignore the pentium machines, because I know the answer there). All of these laptops that we sell excluding netbooks come with 3GB+ RAM, and a all our core 2 machines run at least 2.1GHz.
2) Windows 7 looks nice (for windows).
3) All of this hardware comes at a ridiculously cheap price, but doesn't perform for [insert appropriate word to describe what I mean here].
4) Dear God, why are these trackpads all so small?
5) Can I go home to my macbook yet?
I think I know why "PC" users scoff at the price of Macs. They think a core i7 should perform like my core 2 duo and that 4GB of RAM is barely capable of running their OS.
1) Why does my penryn architecture core 2 duo at 2GHz macbook with 2GB of DDR3 (1066MHz) respond more quickly than EVERY machine I played with, including the i7, when my machine has both less RAM and a slower processor (we can ignore the pentium machines, because I know the answer there). All of these laptops that we sell excluding netbooks come with 3GB+ RAM, and a all our core 2 machines run at least 2.1GHz.
2) Windows 7 looks nice (for windows).
3) All of this hardware comes at a ridiculously cheap price, but doesn't perform for [insert appropriate word to describe what I mean here].
4) Dear God, why are these trackpads all so small?
5) Can I go home to my macbook yet?
I think I know why "PC" users scoff at the price of Macs. They think a core i7 should perform like my core 2 duo and that 4GB of RAM is barely capable of running their OS.