Lets do a simple feature comparison between the three and taking the default configuration and the cheapest in the range:

feature x500 MBP m11x m15x
specific model X505-Q882 MC374LL/A

screen size 18.4” 13.3” 11.6” 15.6”
processor speed 2.4GHz 2.4GHz 1.3GHz 2.4GHz
processor type i5-450M C2D C2D SU7300 i3 370M
RAM 4GB DDR3 1066MHz 4GB DDR3 1066MHz 2GB DDR3 800MHz 4GB DDR3 1333MHz
HDD Size 500GB SATA 250GB SATA 160GB SATA II 320GB SATA II
HDD RPM 7200 RPM 5400RPM 5400RPM 7200RPM
Graphics card Geforce GTS 360M Geforce 320M Geforce GT335M with Optimus Geforce GT240M
Discrete graphics memory 1GB GDDR5 256MB DDR3 1GB 512MB
Battery type 87Wh, 12cell 63.5Wh unknown 56Wh, 6cell
Est. Battery life 3.77Hrs 10Hrs 8Hrs unknown
Weight 4.4KG (9.7lbs) 2.04KG 2.04KG (4.5lbs) unknown
backlit keyboard no single color many colors many colors
Cost USD$ 1199 1199 799 1199


Obviously, the X500 has more brute power, but IMHO, it would come last last on my wish list.

Source:
x500: http://us.toshiba.com/computers/laptops/qosmio/X500/available-models
MBP: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs-13inch.html
M11x: http://www.dell.com/us/p/alienware-m11x/pd?oc=dkcwmn1&model_id=alienware-m11x



On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:21 PM, aki <aki275@gmail.com> wrote:
@Daudi, I'm not sure of the nix distros but the X500 comes with 64bit Win7HP and 8GB Ram. With 2X640GB drives, I can already see it being used with Adobe CS3 on 64bit and also a partition to suit the scratch disks. Here is some interesting info from Adobe : http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/401/kb401088.html  .
 


 
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Daudi Were <daudi.were@gmail.com> wrote:
which OS would you run on these machines?
Would it make sense to run *nix distros if you want to do heavy photo + video editing?

 

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