HD Beat has taken a nice look at the MacBook Pro as a portable HD machine (the “ultimate,” as they call it). Ben Drawbauch sings the machines praises:

“It can decode two HD videos at once and watch them in Expose, but not without dropping a few frames…The most impressive thing is how well it plays H.264 HD encoded material, the CPU never goes over 60% and is usualy closer to 50% and scrubs perfect.”

Maybe 2006 is the “year of HD,” not 2005 as most people originally thought. Check out the rest of the post, it’s definitely a good read.

Source: TUAW