Quad-Core laptop!
I was dreaming when looking at an HP quad-core laptop: 4×2Ghz Core2 Quad (Q9000), 2×500GB hard-drive, 8GB RAM and an ATI Radeon with 1GB memory! ouch!
But now, I checked the GeekBench performance of Core2 Quad Q9000, and wonder it, it’s almost 10% slower with it’s 4-core than a MacBook Pro 2.8Ghz with 2-cores and Intel Turbo boost, on 32bits test.
Worst, on 64bits, it’s 20% slower than actual MacBook Pro dual-core, and geekbench is totally multithreaded to use every core and viortual core available!!!
So yes, I don’t regret to choose a MacBook Pro instead a low-cost HP or Acer computer: spec are not so impressing, but performance is here!
PS: On non-multithreaded application, as Photoshop CS4, the HP Quad-core may be even 2X SLOWER than a 2-core MacBook Pro! It could not compete on the Pro market!
