Head to Head Mac Book Pro Dell E1705

[Walter Biscardi]

[daveyg] ”
Ok I purchased a dell e1705 3 months ago. 2 gig ram duo 2.16 ghz 256 video card 60 gig hard drive 7200 rpm

heads up vs a mac book pro whats the advantage of wither

which one is better”

You already purchased the Dell and NOW you want to know which is better?

Quick answer: Neither.

The one that works better is the one that runs the OS you want to operate and falls in your budget. Honestly a laptop is not something I’m going to run After Effects on.

Editing? Yes. After Effects compositing, no. All laptops are too slow for me and AE.

Walter Biscardi, Jr.
https://www.biscardicreative.com

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” – Adam Savage, Mythbusters

[Daveyg]

well, i love using AE on my laptop. it runs great. it was JUST A QUESTION.

ao if anyone else has a thought

[Nicholas White]

Hey,

I’m a laptop user as well, Dell Inspiron 8100 (PIII 1.2ghz), it’s very slow but I can work while watching tv.

A buddy of mine has a new mac laptop running After Effects, it is PAINFULLY slow because it AE hasn’t yet been made ‘universal’ to run on the new Intel processors.

My advice, based on that, is to not even worry about it. If you like your laptop, who cares if it runs faster on someone else’s?

Take care,

Nick

[Steve Forde]

Normally, I try to stay out of same processor machine to machine comparisons as every project is different. But your post caught my eye for a couple of reasons.

I personally use a Macbook Pro as it allows me to dual boot. I give software demo’s to people of all OS persuasion, so having both in one laptop is a real plus for me personally.

All of our developers use the Dell Inspiron 9400, and after checking out the e1705, they are about the same machine (except 17 and 15″ versions).

Benchmarks are very important to us, so I had to dive into the guts of both machines, and undertstand the differences between the two. Here is the ironic thing I discovered…..

They are both the “same” machine. Since I was testing apple’s to apple’s (excuse the pun), I benchmarked both machines running Win XP Pro. Everything right down to the CPU, sound card, network card, PCI bus, Firewire bus, Graphics Card was a little different (the Macbook had an ATI x1600, Dell had an ATI x1400), and Hard Drive.

The only difference is OS (Macbook can run OS X obviously) and form factor (geek speak for “the case”), which I have to hand to Apple – it is top notch over the Dell.

Therefore – if you are asking between OS X and Win – thats a whole other story. But in terms of hardware itself, from an internal parts perspective, they are the same machine.

Steve
GridIron Software Inc.

[Daveyg]

thanks guys for the input.

i wonder how vista will prove to be

STEVE, did you get my email last week.

[Nc66blkman]

[daveyg] “which one is better”

Well, let’s see: One runs multiple OS variants and the other can’t. One runs After Effects and the other tries at this point.

I think it’s a tie.

Charles