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An Apple 13-inch MacBook Pro is the "best performing" Windows laptop? Yes, says a PC services company that has done "frustration analytics" on some of the best-selling PCs. The MacBook Pro won out over established PC makers like Dell, Acer, and Lenovo, according to Soluto, which was quick to explain its finding: "A main factor in this machine's metrics is the fact that every Windows installation on it is clean. With PC manufacturers loading so much crapware on new laptops, this is a bit of an unfair competition. But, on the other hand, PC makers should look at this data and aspire to ship PCs that perform just as well as a cleanly installed MacBook Pro." Bonus: they come with Mac OS (and Unix... sort of).
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Tells you what a great job the manufacturers of laptops do. Notice there is no Sony or Samsung in the list.
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I heard Apple have spent extra attention to tweeking the motherboards so components use less power. That's why Macbook battery life is better than Windows laptops.
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Of course why could not Dell have done that. I can understand the lower end brands. I remember when Apple Hardware was very poorly designed. The Mac II could not be upgraded to higher speeds because, I guess, they had been stupid and not designed the motherboard to handle higher speeds.
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The second on the list (Azus) is not much worse but almost a third of the cost. Makes you think: do you want to pay triple for that difference?
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I had a 15" Pro through work 2 years ago and sure the ergonomics were great, the lighted keyboard was swanky and the clean install of Windows 7 ultimate was excellent.
So when I went to buy one for my own business I got a Macbook Pro right?
No. because for £700 less than the best Macbook Pro at the time I got the same screen, same RAM size, larger harddrive and faster quad core processor with a BlueRay Disk Drive thrown in and a second 2GB graphics card, B&O sound system etc etc, in a plasticky, poorly layed out Asus.
If I was designing dining rooms I'd have bought a Mac, I needed real computing "performance" in a reasonably portable package that didn't give me RSI and in spec terms Apple were nowhere.
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage."
Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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