More on the MacBook…

Also, the MacBook is a performance machine.  Last night I was testing its performance for a friend who was curious… and the results were quite impressive.

I was playing a DVD, a 720×480 MPEG-4 video (running at 4x speed), had the iTunes visualizer running, had a YouTube video playing, had the iSight camera playing all 9 video variations in Photo Booth, had System Preferences and Activity Monitor open, and various Finder windows… all while I had Vista running in Parallels using half of my 2 gigs of RAM.

Surprisingly, when viewing all the windows in Exposé, the videos and audio were running fairly smoothly.

My fans were running at about 5500 rpm.  They were fairly loud, but not annoying or intrusive.

My point is; it’s really a performance monster.  Two cores @ 2.4 gHz, 2 gigs of RAM (half of them used by Parallels), and it’s the best computer I’ve ever used.  I couldn’t imagine what a Mac Pro (8x 3.2 gHz cores, up to 16 gigs of RAM) would perform like.

ZOMG

~ by rockdave on June 24, 2008.