<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I see that in the 2nd M$T advert about laptops, the conclusion of the purchaser is <div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-style: italic; line-height: 13px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>"Macs to me are about aesthetics more than they are the computing power."</span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px;"><i><br></i></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px;">Is there any fact behind this ?</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px;">Do PC laptops really have more computing power than a [comparable specification] MacBook (Pro) ?</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px;">In Ti days, I used to have a program that determined the 'speed' of my Ti-book in gigaflops, but can no longer recall what that software was.</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px;">Is there anything like that we can use these days on Intel-based Macs?</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px;">regards, Trevor</span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px; line-height: 13px;"><i><br></i></span></font></div></body></html>