MacBook Pro vs. Eurocom: Who's fastest?

There's some banter on the Net today about the recent Apple ad that discusses PCW and our WorldBench tests that showed the MacBook Pro to be the fastest Windows Vista laptop we'd ever tested. Said banter involves the fact that we've tested a Eurocom notebook that outperformed the MacBook Pro in WorldBench.

So what's the deal? As I pointed out to Ryan Block of Engadget when he asked, the MacBook Pro was indeed the fastest Vista machine we'd seen when we reviewed for our August print issue...and remained so until we evaluated the Eurocom for the December issue.

So when we published our Notable Notebooks slideshow in September, we spoke about the MacBook Pro as the fastest Vista laptop, which it was; that's the factoid that Apple picked up on for their commercial. Just to clarify things a bit, we've updated the slide on the MacBook Pro to mention that the statement on its speed was current only through October.

So to recap: The MacBook Pro did indeed achieve the distinction of being the fastest Vista notebook we've ever seen; the Eurocom has since surpassed it.

(Side note: The Eurocom is a quad-core machine with significantly more CPU muscle than the dual-core MacBook Pro.)

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