MacBook Pro better Vista machine than Vaio

A Pentium M vs. A Core Duo

yea............

That fair......

/Sarcasm

Quintinn, and anyone else this may concern, i have iSight running in vista, all you have to do is to run the drivers in XP COMPATABILITY MODE!!! It works with windows live messenger, and is great!!

This is my first post here and I almost just let it slide. But....

Having been a windows man from '83 on and having purchased my first Mac (PowerBook G4) that's now a little over a year old, I'm reading this comparison and I'm thinking to myself that the comparison isn't really "fair". And for the record, I have no windows machines in my home, but sheesh, a year old model from Redmond versus the newest from Apple??? Nah, even for me, that's a wee bit of a stretch.

Just my 2-cents.

I am using Bootcamp 1.1 (the newest version I think) and Vista RC1 that just came out the other day. I burned the 'Apple Drivers for Windows XP' disk that BootCamp makes for you and the video card drivers just worked. I wasn't able to get all the hardware to work.. iSight and a few other unidentified pieces of hardware won't load in the Device Manager.. but everything else seems to be ok. Not sure if that helps or not.

"Come on guys, Macbook Pro is 9 months old now...comparing to a year old Sony is not really lame at all."

It is lame. The 17-inch MacBook Pro was only introduced April 24, 2006, the VAIO VGN-A790 was launched at the end of last year with an older single-core processor and and older GPU. If it was the other way around the Mac web would be up in arms in a moment. Imagine reading a blog post entitled "Top-end Merom Vaio better Vista machine than year old MakBoox Pro" in January 2007.

Sony VAIO VGN-A790
2-GHz Intel Pentium M 760 single-core "Dothan"
ATI Mobility Radeon X600

Review date: September 2005
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1859531,00.asp

MacBook Pro 2.16GHz 17-inch
2.16GHz Intel Core Duo "Yonah"
ATI Mobility Radeon X1600

Introduced: April 24, 2006
http://www.designedinca.com/macs/macbook_pro/apr2006/2160-17/

Come on guys, Macbook Pro is 9 months old now...comparing to a year old Sony is not really lame at all.

Dear pedant, you clearly knew what was meant by viao/VAIO. So why not just read the post and keep your 4th reich spelling B to yourself. All this TUAW bashing is getting old and is spoiling the site for me and no doubt others. Better still get your new world order a blog, get similar hits then talk.

xx G

@ mark

Of course a comparison wasn't the point of the original article, and a better way to report on this article would've been "MacBook Pro good machine for Vista!" but the way Mr McNulty reported it made it sound as if the article was written to prove Apple's superiority.

The title of his article was the obvious (and overshadowing) take-home statement, not the disclaimer towards the end. The linked article hardly mentions the Vaio past the first page, and the article's author only mentions it there simply as a here-is-a-machine-I-had-lying-around measure, not as a component-for-component comparison.

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@Bill I
I don't think the intent of this article is to compare hardware. It's known that Vista has some pretty hefy hardware requirements. I think the point is: if you just got a new MBP, you should be able to run Vista fine, if you have a year old Vaio, you might want to think about it a little more. I think this is a perfectly valid comparison, since it discusses perfromance that users of MBP's, and Vaio's can expect.