Apple's MacBook Pro: Using it as a Mac and a PC

For my last two universal binary tests I turned to iWork '06; for the Pages test, just like in the previous article, I'm exporting a 116 page document to a PDF and measuring the time elapsed in seconds:

Once again, the MacBook Pro completes the task in about half the time of the PowerBook G4. These sorts of performance increases don't come along all too often, but it's always great when they do.

The story is really no different in Keynote as the export to PowerPoint task completed in almost half the time on the MacBook Pro once more. Neither of the iWork tests were multi-threaded, which is why there are no Core Solo numbers on this page.