Mac VS. Windows Laptop?

What exactley do you mean by *outperform* though Guru?

Also, perhaps prices are a bit different down in the States, but up here in Canada i ran into the following scenario while choosing a laptop for my cousin.

Basically she wanted a MAC, and my Aunt whom was buying it for her uses them at work *newspaper graphics stuff*, so was gung ho to buy her one until she saw the price. A mid end Mac with 1Gb of Ram, 100gb hdd and Core2Duo 2.1 ghz went for $1399, with 2 year warranty and such. She asked me to go price out a Windows notebook, both cheaper and the same price to see what the difference is. Eventually I came up with:

Dell
AMD x2 2.0ghz cpu
2GB of Ram
120Gb hdd
And 3 year Complete Care package, basically meaning she could drop it, spill stuff on it etc.., and get a new one for three years.
All that came to $999 cdn *and could choose a colour outside of ugly white*

Now, as Macs pretty much use the same components as PC notebooks now, I don't see how a Mac can outperform a newer pc notebook unless you are referring to the OS.

There are too many arguements for the whole Windows vs Mac OS , and that isn't related to this thread.. yet. Unless you are out to use software that is specific to MAC though, I just can't see the point.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Basically in simple terms, there is little performance lost while using processors that support it *Intel-vtx and AMD-V*, but you are still slightly limited by the emulated hardware *restricted to dx8.1, although i've heard rumors of a company coming out with full dx support*, and limited to the fact that your hardware must support two OS's, so you have to split up the resources.

I am still however asking why you would purchase a MAC, only to run window's stuff in a Virtual Machine. If the MAC used some secret hardware that made it faster than pc notebooks sure, but they don't.

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