When Maximum PC pit the MacBook Pro against the Dell XPS M1530, Apple’s pro notebook walked away the clear winner. Awarding MacBook Pro an impressive score of 9 (out of 10), editors praised its thinness (calling it “impressive next to other notebooks in its class”), its fast GeForce 8600M GT graphic processor, its “top-notch” Intel processor, and its battery life. It also found Mac OS X “really, really slick.”

If you’re a business customer anxious to get off to a great start with your new Mac, you’ll want to sign up for a free, online seminar. It’s called “New to the Mac for Business Users.” Watch it, and you’ll find out how you can run Windows applications on a Mac, download your email from a corporate Exchange server, give presentations to clients using iChat theater, exchange files over a network, and much more.