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    can anybody compare the G1s and New MBP?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by NiNjURAi, Jun 17, 2007.

  1. NiNjURAi

    NiNjURAi Notebook Consultant

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    Im talking more about the gaming part about them. Screenshots, Framerates?
     
    NiNjURAi, Jun 17, 2007
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    count_schemula Notebook Deity

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    I use Vista and OSX daily.

    I can say that Vista feels like beta software. It mostly works, but it freaks out from time to time.

    Just like with XP, Vista drivers and stability will improve over time.

    As for the gaming part of it, I'd rekon that XP is still the champ. As for the hardware, it's comparable Intel based hardware, so, you should be able to figure that out.

    Games are better and more plentiful for Windows, and XP drivers are the most mature. So there you go. If gaming is #1, an XP laptop is still the way to go. My MacBook Pro ran Vista like a boss, so, if you want to run XP on a MBP, you should be fine assuming there are good drivers for the 8600.
     
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  3. Miyabina

    Miyabina Notebook Consultant

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    If you are looking at just gaming, you would have to load windows on the SR MBP anyways. Then you just put most of the benifits of the MBP away... and then there is the price. To get similar scores you would have to get the $2500 USD MBP, where the G1S can be had for about $1800.
    Here is a 3dmark06 comparison, even though synthetic benches do not translate directly into real gaming comparison... it still is alright for comparison.
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=125246 -- G1S 3DMark06
    http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=130879 -- SR MBP 3DMark06
    Roughly the 2.4ghz 256vram SR MBP gets 3764 points @ 1280x1024
    ... and the G1S gets 3630 @ 1280x1024
    200points for the sake of comparison should be read as they are the same, for the margin of error and etc

    screenshots and framerates in different games and such are still being tested and reported from what I can tell.
     
    Miyabina, Jun 17, 2007
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  4. NiNjURAi

    NiNjURAi Notebook Consultant

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    yeah i know about vist. tried it on my home pc for about a week and ditched and went back to xp pro. just couldnt get myself to like it. it looks nice but i dont like how it performs and works.
     
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    NiNjURAi Notebook Consultant

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    ok thanks miyabina. yes i know ill have to put xp/vista on there but thats not a problem. i was in the networking class at my high school and they gave me free operating systems for being in the program so i got vista and xp pro for free : )
     
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    NiNjURAi Notebook Consultant

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    that 200 points might be there also if you take in account that the MBP has a 2.4ghz cpu instead of the 2.2
     
    NiNjURAi, Jun 17, 2007
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    Miyabina Notebook Consultant

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    Well also just running the test on the same computer can net differences of up to about 300 or so points. I know on my desktop I can get 10105 one time 9847 the next, and then like 9932 the next. :)
    So when comparing then across computers ~200 points is pretty much moot for my comparisons. Also its just synthetics, my computer can score okay in 3DMark06, but with the lack of ram my comptuer has, I can't set everything on high all the time ^^
     
    Miyabina, Jun 17, 2007
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  8. NiNjURAi

    NiNjURAi Notebook Consultant

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    yeahh true. ive never ran mine in 3dmark but im sure it would score quite well. im looking forward to your tests
     
    NiNjURAi, Jun 17, 2007
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