It's due for shipping on the 10th... Woot -- it shipped today! Replacing the piece-o-shit laptop I bought from Fry's and forced them to refund me money for (after 6 months!).
But it'll have a slower CPU than the MacBook (I didn't feel the need to upgrade it), and I suspect the video card will make the MacBook slaughter it (the 1400 is better than the Intel video, but still doesn't hold a candle to the 1600). I'm not familiar w/ Cinebench though, so I dunno
Man.. you've got new babies arriving daily!!
Cinebench is really only good for knowing how well a machine will run Cinema4D, which is a high-end rendering/animation package AFAIK.. I guess it gives the machine a pretty good workout in some ways, but mostly people run it because it's available on a whole bunch of platforms and the scores are all derived from some reference system, so one can pretend to extrapolate meaning from them
That MacBook at 1.83GHz, for example, turns in pretty impressive results compared to my Dual 2.5 G5/9600XT -- it's only just a
little bit slower in all tests except for hardware OGL, where it quite predictably wins by a hair. I don't think the engine uses any special G5 optimizations, but even still, the results posted on XLR8 are very impressive indeed for a laptop..
Give it a run on your new machine just for kicks if you get a chance.. I'm curious to know how Apple's machine stacks-up to Dell's in XP.
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It may be that one day a young man will adore a Pinata.
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I'm not even angry. I'm being so sincere right now, even though you broke my heart and killed me.