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Why not use desktop-class Core 2's?
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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 332734" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>As much as I love my new MBP, have to say video has some nice eye candy in it, but real world performance - NOT - dont' think many people sit around and see how many different apps they can open at 1 time, but not do anything with them.</p><p></p><p>I'll put my 3 year old P4 overclocked to almost 3.9Ghz against that machine any day of the week for..... let's say backing up a DVD..... we both have to sit at the computer till it's done, bet I get to go sit out on the porch sipping a margarita at least 20 - 30 minutes before he gets to.</p><p></p><p>Real world performance and the parts used are valid issues for a lot of people (albeit admittedly a very small percentage of users). And the parts used has to do with how long it will take to accomplish some of the time consuming tasks we do. For most computer uses this is a non-issue, because all they are doing is some word or spreadsheet processing, e-mail, browse the internet, maybe some IM'g, listening to music, watching a DVD. Most all machines will handle these tasks very nicely today.</p><p></p><p>But for the hardcore hardware guy that wants to do a lot of video encoding, time is..... Or play the latest 3D games and have the ability to tweak all aspects of your video card settings to get the best combination of framerate and picture quality for some heads up play, these are very valid hardware questions.</p><p></p><p>On the other side, as a hardware enthusiast myself, I don't think anyone buying an off the shelf computer, whether it's Apple, Dell, HP, or even some of the low end Alienware should really expect much more than what they pay for. You want a high end box to do all that, still have to build it yourself pretty much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 332734, member: 24160"] As much as I love my new MBP, have to say video has some nice eye candy in it, but real world performance - NOT - dont' think many people sit around and see how many different apps they can open at 1 time, but not do anything with them. I'll put my 3 year old P4 overclocked to almost 3.9Ghz against that machine any day of the week for..... let's say backing up a DVD..... we both have to sit at the computer till it's done, bet I get to go sit out on the porch sipping a margarita at least 20 - 30 minutes before he gets to. Real world performance and the parts used are valid issues for a lot of people (albeit admittedly a very small percentage of users). And the parts used has to do with how long it will take to accomplish some of the time consuming tasks we do. For most computer uses this is a non-issue, because all they are doing is some word or spreadsheet processing, e-mail, browse the internet, maybe some IM'g, listening to music, watching a DVD. Most all machines will handle these tasks very nicely today. But for the hardcore hardware guy that wants to do a lot of video encoding, time is..... Or play the latest 3D games and have the ability to tweak all aspects of your video card settings to get the best combination of framerate and picture quality for some heads up play, these are very valid hardware questions. On the other side, as a hardware enthusiast myself, I don't think anyone buying an off the shelf computer, whether it's Apple, Dell, HP, or even some of the low end Alienware should really expect much more than what they pay for. You want a high end box to do all that, still have to build it yourself pretty much. [/QUOTE]
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