Our buddies over at Bare Feats are their usual lightning-fast selves with brand new MacBook Pro gaming benchmarks. Pitting the just-updated MBPs against the last revision, as well as other models of Mac, you can see how the new MacBook Pros handle Quake 4, Doom 3, Halo, and more. Here’s an excerpt:

The new MacBook Pro with the GeForce 8600M runs 3D accelerated games significantly faster than the previous 2.33GHz model with the Mobility Radeon X1600. For example, Quake 4 ran 60% faster, Prey 55% faster, and Doom 3 ran 38% faster. The “Rosa” even beat the 4-Core Mac Pro desktop with a GeForce 7300 GT in 4 out of 5 of our tests.

Looks like the faster FSB, clockspeed, and graphics card are making for quite a portable gaming champ.

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