According to benchmarks carried out by website GearLog, Apple's MacBook Pro running Windows XP is a better Adobe Photoshop rig than any other Core Duo laptop on the market.

Many of the comments below request comparisons to other PCs running the same benchmarks. Here are a bunch of Core Duo laptops you can compare the MacBook Pro to. Scroll all the way to the right to find the Windows Media Encode and Photoshop CS2 tests. As you can see, the MacBook Pro beat four other Core Duo laptops on the Photoshop test, though it came in behind them on the Windows Media test.

The two Mac desktops outran even blazing-fast single core systems, which typically do the Windows Media Encoder test in 10-13 minutes. We haven't tested any other Intel Core Duo desktops, but the iMac competes well against a Polywell machine with a dual-core Athlon 64 X2 3800+, while the Mini and MacBook Pro are held back a little by their slower laptop hard drives. Predictably, all the Macs blow away the Shuttle XPC M1000, which has the previous generation single-core Pentium M processor. That system scored 16 minutes on Windows Media Encoder, and took 2:52 to complete the Photoshop script. In other words, Apple makes fast Windows PCs.