The Register recently released some benchmarks showing that a 2.16 GHz Core Duo MacBook Pro is the fastest Core Duo laptop currently available.

“The site measured the 2.16GHz Core Duo-based MacBook Pro running through a series of Windows XP-native Photoshop CS2 scripts in 1m 10s - better than a 1.66GHz Core Duo-based Mac Mini (1m 56s) and a 2GHz Core Duo-based iMac (1m 25s). You’d expect that kind of difference given the different CPU speed grades.However, the site links to a set of tests carried out by PC Magazine on an array of Wintel Core Duo notebooks from Dell, Lenovo, Acer and Gateway. Only one came close: the Acer, with a score of 1m 11s; the others generated scores of 1m 52s to 1m 55s, all slower than the iMac.”

So this show that Apple knows what they’re doing when it comes to the hardware.

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