What is the equivalent Windows laptop?

The MacBook Pro IS also a Windows computer !

I dont think there is an equivalent if you take all the features & design into consideration....plus Apple are patent pending on the magnetic power connector.

If you are looking at processing power alone as an indication, then there is a laptop by Rock or Evesham that has dual Athlon's.

Well, I went looking for an equivalent but I soon found out that none of them run OS X.

What's the best Windows laptop equivalent to the MBP
15.4"? My vote goes to the Thinkpad T60p.

Hands down it's gotta be the stuff from Asus (there's a reason they're the ODM for the macbook). Take a look at the V1J or the W3J -- beautiful machines in their own right (look a lot like the powerbook/macbook too). In fact the W3J is pretty much the Macbook in a 13.3" form-factor -- with some black plastic instead of aluminum everywhere (though the top is gunmetal aluminum AFAIK).

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RRS

Similarly spec'ed laptops benchmarked against the MacBook Pro are still behind. The MacBook Pro is faster than most other CoreDuo laptops (running windows)

hey Mark, what was the extension on that custom icon you made me again? i formatted and now I can't get it working again. thanks.

There is no extension, its a universal mac os icon. If you added one, it won't work again.

what you mean if i added one it won't work again? when i dl it from the email it acts like it's a document not an icon

sigh

He asked what's the equivalent. When people ask for the "equivalent", they mean comparable hardware at a similar price. Most techies (who are what Apple's trying to court right now) will want to see similar specs, maybe compare weights, size, etc. We don't really care about immeasurable things like "design" and relatively useless stuff like the "patent pending magnetic power connector" (I have never, ever tripped over my laptops' wires. Neither has my family. And over the course of the last 10 years I've owned 6 laptops).

As for trying to compare, if you honestly don't know what you're talking about, please don't speak. Dual Athlons are not the equivalent of an Intel Core Duo. Dual Athlons are a lot faster and guzzle tremendous amounts of energy. If you want to make a valid comparison, look at the Inspiron 9300 with Core Duo and a similar video card.

Please don't let the reality distortion field and marketingspeak affect what you say to others. This is a big year for Apple to court us geeks, and we really, REALLY don't like the reality distortion field and marketingspeak. Just give us specs and benchmarks. Thanks.

For me, the only choice for a non apple laptop is sony vaio, sz series...

i am still waiting for the whine to disappear, because what I really want is a macbook pro... i will wait as sooon as I can 🙂

and also, maybe 13.3" macbook pro will appear in the market in a short time 😉