but he's talking about a mac laptop.. not a mac desktop.. It's not like you get 8 or even 4 cores in a macbook. A mac laptop is not very powerful when they max out at an nvidia 8600 graphics card.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Video cards only count in performance in two areas: 1) gaming and 2) 3D rendering. If you want to play the newest games that the highest settings, yeah sure, a macbook pro may not be your best bet. If you want to do 3D rendering, none of those gaming cards are what you want, you would want a render card like a Quadro.
Secondly, my analogy still stands, because the macbook pro will out perform almost every laptop on features alone. I mean for one, it is the only laptop that can run pretty much every OS out there. Next it has every feature built in standard. Sure some laptops come with blue tooth, some come with ABGN wireless, some come with a back lit keyboard (I still haven't see any others that do, but I will take Speedy's word on it), some may come with FW 2 and a built in camera, but no laptop comes with all of that standard. Plus have all of that standard and only be 1" thick.
Your arguments hold no water and you don't know what you are talking about. 8600GT video card is absolutely fine for every application except for the two I mentioned, and even then it would still get the job done just not as good as perhaps a few other video cards out there. Why do you think Hollywood movies get edited on a freaking macbook pro? Did you know post production editing for Transformers was done all on Macs?
Now take into consideration the innovation that goes into a Macbook Pro. let me start by saying, the mag-safe AC-adapter connection is just pure freaking genius. It is held by a small magnet, so if I get up and go and forget that my laptop is plugged in I don't rip it out the DC port on my laptop. Which, trust me is a huge common problem amongst all laptop users. Next, the ambient light sensor. I am in my living room typing away and it is dusk and the sun starts to go down and my room darkens. My keyboard automatically back lights, and the screen automatically adjusts brightness to compensate staying with in my power consumption settings. I need to sync my cell phone contacts, well no problem because with isync and blue tooth I just pair them, hit sync and voila, all my contacts are instantly backed up. I can also sync any type of PDA or of course my iPhone (if I had one). iSync works with iCal as well as email clients and office documents. Sure there is some left to be desired but that is because not all developers keep up with the Mac platform. I have a digital camera and i want to take off all the pictures real quick and organize them. iPhoto requires no drivers at all, it just works plain and simple. I dump all of them in there and it instantly organizes them by date and whatever I want to do it further. I can then burn photo CDs by simply dragging them into albums or create a slide show with music, then dump that slide into iMovie and I can add post effects, voice over, whatever. Create my own custom music in Garage band and dump it into iMovie as well. Then take that final project to iDvd and make menus for it and author it so it can play in a stand alone DVD player.
The fact that all these applications and features just work smoothly, simply, fast and efficient with a stream line and ergonomic design, I can easily compare any Mac to a Porsche. The bottom line is, whatever you own and whatever you do with it, you want it to work and work all the time. Apple accomplishes that in a way no one else quite does, and for that I have to tip my hat to them. There is some left to be desired but in the end I would prefer to have quality over quantity.
End of story.
For the record I am not a Mac elitist either. I use Linux on the PC side a lot, and I don't mind XP. I don't like nor will I support Vista, too much DRM for my taste, not to mention software bloat. I am not a huge fan of iTunes really, and would prefer to not use it but I have an iPod.
