pcworld.com - 11/19/2008
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Once I realized Apple's new MacBook Pros were available with a 2.8GHz processor upgrade option, I couldn't resist, so I mortgaged my house and bought one. This, despite vocal reservations about the NVIDIA 9600M GT video processor . By any gamer's measure, the leap from July 2007 MacBook ...
technologyexpert.blogspot.com - 11/21/2008
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technologyexpert.blogspot.com —
Before you say "why would anyone remove their
battery from their laptop when plugged in?," there are...
some who do so in the hopes of extending their battery lifespan. And before you scoff at a performance hit of this sort, we're not talking a small ...
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MacBook Performance Plunges When Battery Removed
engadget.com - 11/27/2008
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engadget.com —
Releasing it's stranglehold on iTunes Fairplay DRM'ed content
just a bit, Apple has issued a Quicktime 7.5.7...
update, that allows standard definition videos to play on external displays without HDCP support. High definition content still toils ...
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Quicktime 7.5.7 update cleans up HDCP Macbook issues, ...
engadget.com - 11/23/2008
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engadget.com —
Are you one of those thrifty-types who's always
looking for an angle, always trying to stretch every...
last penny? You know who we're talking about: Montel Williams bases whole episodes around you, the kind of person who reuses tea bags and ...
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MacBook and MacBookPro suffer performance anxiety once ...
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... are live on Steam GameStop prepping EA Sports discount? TweakTown on shocking problems that riddle the Xbox 360 Shacknews has a guide to the New Xbox Experience Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures to get a DirectX 10 version Shacknews on Left 4 Dead : a co-op review of Valve's new cooperative Zombie shooter TestFreaks review Far Cry 2 Crysis Wars 1.2 patch Systems and storage PC World has new MacBook Pro Boot Camp gaming benchmarks HotHardware reviews Velocity Micro Edge Z55 Core i7 gaming system ...
Apple MacBook Pro gaming performance benched
DV Hardware —
... depressing. Crysis arrived in November 2007, but I'm fairly certain I won't be comfortably running it on a MacBook Pro until somewhere north of 2010. Drop the settings to "medium," however, and I can vouch that the average frame rate on the November MacBook Pro rested comfortably in the very playable middle 20s. My problem: I'm a settings snob, and "medium" just ain't cutting it when you get a glimpse at "high" and realize what you're trading down to.
Check it out over here. Apple MacBook Pro gaming performance benched - More ...
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