[stavrosbezas]

I am going to be purchasing one of the new intel macs in the near future and have been debating back and forth between the iMac and newest MBP. Take finances out of the equation (leave that to my wife) and mobility. I am concerned right now solely with what are the technical differences between the two machines.

1. Does the iMac have the MOBILITY ATI Radeon x1600 in it or the standard ATI Radeon x1600 in it? This would more or less answer my question if it is a different card.

2. According to the apple store I cannot find any differences between clock speeds/RAM amounts/etc. Is it possible to have nearly the same performance (SATA vs. 5400 rpm drive...) on the MBP as the iMac 20?

I plan to dual boot XP to play games such as BF2 and if the MBP cannot do them at least nearly comparable to the iMac it may not be worth the extra buck for me.

Thanks in advance for the responses!

[harrisjamieh]

I have heard mixed reports about weather or not the MBP has a mobility card or not, and also if the iMac has a mobility card or not. I'm pretty sure that mobility or not, both machines have the same cards.

The two machines have the same clock speeds and RAM speeds, and can support the same amount of RAM.

The ONLY difference in the two machines I can see is the HDs, 5400 v 7200, though this can be sloved by ordering a 7200 in the MBP.

[mduell]

The iMac has the normal X1600, the MBP has the Mobility X1600. You can see the difference in Doom framerates:



This barefeats comparison has the MBP and Intel iMac.
In everything CPU-bound they come out nearly the same (slight advantage for iMac probably due to HDD).

[Zyphere]

mduell: do you have the other settings that the game was running on at the time? AA/AF?

EDIT

n/m
Saw the link to the site with all the comparisons but they still don't have the AA/AF settings that the game was tested with.