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I guess I sort of see this more like a Nascar vs. F1 debate… Engines aside (lets say they run the same engine for sake of the argument), the rest of the F1 package is near perfection in aerodynamics, materials, while the Cup car has just as much horsepower, but is heavier, clunkier, harder to drive and has a generic ugly fiberglass shell thrown over it. (M5 vs. Viper?)
Point being, everyone who is anti-apple brings up the hardware issue because it’s all they have. Apple’s industrial engineers and UI designers are among the best in the world, which when coupled with the same components that make PC’s so powerful, makes one hell of a machine.
Sure, apple has their issues, but so does every other company in the world.
It might be the same hardware, but there is something to be said for the R&D that apple is putting into finding the components that work best with each other. I cannot think of another reason why they would be consistently outperforming the other big names in notebooks.
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Let’s not go crazy here. It is not leaps and bounds ahead of anyone. I am sure Apple won’t be on top for very long either. The next XPS from Dell will probably take the speed crown back or something from Alienware even. 45nm Penryn (code name for the process, not the CPU) will be making their way into notebooks soon as well as new mobile chipsets so this whole PC Magazine review is moot.