Yet Another MacBook Vs. Acer TravelMate 8200 Comparison
(Source: Acer)
Just another short comparison of the Acer TravelMate 8200 with the new Intel-powered Mac, by a Malaysian newspaper – The Star. It is a pity, however, that the results of their benchmarks have not been reprinted in the online version of the newspaper.
In any case, a few interesting conclusions are presented. One: “…the Acer TravelMate is actually faster than the Intel iMac at Quicktime 7 encoding (indicating that much work remains in optimising Mac OS X itself for the Intel chip). ” Two: “…– while slower – Rosetta apps are actually quite useable. Timed benchmarks aside, Microsoft Word only really slowed down when scrolling through pictures. ”
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April 5th, 2006 04:18
[...] Just like I said in the previous post, i.e. the Dell Inspiron 9400 review, we have here an updated comparison of the MacBook Pro and a comparably customized Dell Inspiron 9400 by Macworld. Actually, we’ve seen many MacBook-Intel comparisons around the web (notably between the MacBook and the Acer TravelMate 8200), so this particular Mac-Dell comparison should be nothing new. [...]