i think we all know this is sony's fault. just because, even if it isn't. it is now sony's fault.

Of course it is. Sony sucks. ;)

if apple wants to beat the living sh!t of the worldwide market they would have to lower their prices and if you are not agree with me then fine, i do not care, im just gonna think that you are a rich son-of-a-b!tch that doesnt know how to spend that money instead of givin it to help the people who are dying of hunger man, i pent less than $800 on my windows-based pc and i just need it to watch movies, HARDCORE GAMING(one beautiful thing that apple doesnt have) and to do more and more stuff

What's the definition of "hardcore gaming"? And do you mean that the Apple isn't capable of it or that developers haven't built such things?

Certainly the Mac (and OS X) is capable of superb real-time performance out of the box. I run a lot of virtual synths on the Mac and they perform superbly. I doubt very much that games have higher requirements.

---->HARDCORE GAMING(one beautiful thing that apple doesnt have)

haha, you're comparing vst's to a game...are you serious? considering that you think a vst needs as much power as a game i'm going to say that your music probably sucks.

(I just noticed that the response to which I had responded came from a different userID than the person who posted the original comments - my apologies for potentially accusing the original writer of irrational responses - the comments below were directed to "Mandeep". I would still be interested in knowing what games the original writer was thinking of)
DHJDHJ --- April 30th

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Hmmm, I guess you don't know how to respond rationally to questions, do you?

Who said the issue is about speed? As is well known in the real-time community, "Real-time Fast".

I've seen hard real-time programs running on a Mac whose equivalent under Windows have brought the latter to its knees --- the issue being how well the OS can handle hard real-time threads, synchronization, and so forth. I wasn't talking about "a" VST (actually AUs in my particular case) but many running simultaneously along with a lot of other auxilliary DSP processing. Further, you're seriously underestimating the processing power needed to run certain kinds of soft synths, particularly those that do physical modeling, for example.

Remember that if you're running at the edge, an occasional dropped video frame (or slight slowing of rendering speed) won't matter. But you can't drop audio without it being noticed.

So in the (perhaps unlikely) event that you know how to respond rationally, I'll ask again - what kind of games are you talking about?

hey, in case you missed it, this article is about batteries, not how much you hate apple. so shut up. nobody really cares that you hate them, and everyone is well awaere of apple's flaws, yet somehow a part of the population still finds them useful and likes them. same can be said about windows and linux. nobody really needs to hear this rant again.

Actually, the just about every issue (like the whine, excessive heat) that was in the original macbook/macbook pro line was weeded out by the time they started their Core 2 Duo. I had an original Core Duo and returned it because of heat issues and other bugs, but my Core2Duo MBP has been the epitome of stable and while they do run warm sometimes (the entire case is a heatsink), they're not NEARLY as hot at the first gen macbooks.

For the record, I'm not an apple fanatic, and this MBP is my first Apple, but I admit I'm lovin it...a lot.

BTW, yeah you're bound to find an issue or bug here or there, but in my limited history with Apple recently, they've been very good about fixing them or keeping you generally satisfied.

Actually, fair enough. I think all the people I know have the Core (1) Duo.

Before all the Mac uses start their denial (also called river in Egypt syndrome)...

This is not unusual in the Mac world. One of the biggest reasons to switch away from Mac is reliability. While you might state, "It is just your opinion," check out Consumer Reports (Where consumers who register their products are polled.) Can’t you hear the Mac fans say it now, “Well, those users don’t know what they are doing.” But, isn’t that who the Mac is designed to accommodate?

I can you just see the commercial now... PC and Mac are about to run a race. The PC and Mac are neck and neck. Power cords yank from both. PC continues to run while Mac hits his knees and comes to a slow crawl. PC comes back after crossing the finish line and says, "Come on Mac, you lie about every other issue, why not this one?" Mac says in that slow motion voice, "I just don't have the energy anymore."

"(also called river in Egypt syndrome)"

*Groan*

I agree about reliability. Give a MacbookPro 2 years and it's either overheated, the hard-drive is buggered, or it's got hot enough for the metal to come away from the plastic.

You can try and deny this but I've seen it 4 times out of 6 friends with Macs thus far.

Make them a tad thicker and put slightly larger fans and they'd be away.

LOOOL river in Egypt...

and

haha on "I just don't have the energy anymore."

I'm easily amused today.

LOL@fanboi ignorance, recheck your facts guy. Hahaha

I can support my facts while you spend all you time spewing emotions. If you have a Mac, your credit card limit might not support a subscription.

http://www.consumerreports.com/