MacBook v. PowerBook

There has been much discussion on the internet about Apple's new MacBook Pro and on the apparent merits of switching to intel. However, as most scientists will attest, numbers don't lie. Charle Gaba's site, System Shootouts, does a compare and contrast with the two aluminum books and how they match up. Obviously the core duo powered MacBook smokes the PowerPC processor in all of the applicable categories, but anybody can tell you that it takes more than pure processing power to create a positive computing experirence.