Posted 07/02/2008 at 07:17:15pm

At the risk of doing exactly what this sensationalist BS piece was designed to do...No notebooks as fast as Macs??? Guffaw…chuckle…snort… I nearly fell out of my chair when I read it.

Dell, Sony, and Asus are hardly what I’d call “best of breed” PC laptops (…you’d think a magazine called “Maximum PC” would know that ;)…). Guess nobody told you about Sager, Voodoo, Alienware, Hypersonic, or any of the other high-end systems out there. As the owner of several of these (past & present), I can tell you for an absolute FACT that they’ll smoke the benchmarks on any of the cookie-cutter laptops that Apple can muster up. I’m a software engineer / UX developer by profession, as well as an avid gamer, and only invest in systems that I know can handle the demands I put on them. And in case you hadn't guessed, Apple is not among these.

And before the Mac zealots jump all over this post, FYI: I was an Apple-only user for 15+ years (from the days of Apple II+ through Mac). Even learned to program on them, and used to be as much of a Kool-Aide drinking Apple fanboy as any around. But I got wise using Sun-based UNIX systems in college, then PCs (both Windows and Linux), and found out what I was missing. I’ve tried more recent iterations of the Mac multiple times over the years, but would still NEVER consider going back to the overpriced, proprietary cr@p that typifies their products (hardware & software alike).

Maximum PC, better get your facts straight before you print stuff like this...You're starting to look a tad silly…