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 == Review ==
-A business laptop, released in 2006, but that had only some of the typical business laptop features. The chasis is slightly improved from the previous PowerBook models, featuring a larger and better responsive trackpad, a webcam and better keyboard. This laptop had a very competitive configuration for its time, featuring a dual processor and DDR2 memory. The harddrive is a SATA type, offering improved performance and a rare chance of experiencing very modern performance if replaced with a SSD. The only major downside of the laptop is that it supports only 2GB of RAM, despite what the DDR2 standard was capable of. The graphic chipset is also an improvement over the previous generation Radeon 9700 Mobility chipset.
+A business laptop, released in 2006, but that had only some of the typical business laptop features. The chassis is slightly improved from the previous PowerBook models, featuring a larger and better responsive trackpad, a webcam and better keyboard. This laptop had a very competitive configuration for its time, featuring a dual processor and DDR2 memory. The harddrive is a SATA type, offering improved performance and a rare chance of experiencing very modern performance if replaced with a SSD. The only major downside of the laptop is that it supports only 2GB of RAM, despite what the DDR2 standard was capable of. The graphic chipset is also an improvement over the previous generation Radeon 9700 Mobility chipset.
 No evaluation would be complete without a PowerPC vs Core comparison. However, the expectations are entirely wrong. A better comparison is the impossible PowerPC vs Pentium M, as both processors were released in the same time frame and did not offer multiprocessing capability on laptops. Of course, no Pentium M Apple laptop was ever released, but OSX could run on the X86 platform, as it was highly versatile. Under these circumstances, with an unsupported clone and hacks to run on a typical laptop, the Pentium M is better performing integer operations and memory access, while PowerPC is more powerful in floating point operations. It is understandable that no specific optimizations were considered as both processors had very different capabilities and only running unmodified software was considered to maintain a fair comparison. In the end, Pentium M was more energy efficient, being evolved from previous successful laptop CPUs.