How surprising: a benchmark that favors the company who wrote it...
Using hardware accelerated graphics is clever, and the lack of proper OpenGL support out-of-the-box in current Windows may prove a hassle for contenders to attack multiple platforms. Ditching OpenGL really paid off for Microsoft.
MacBook Pro Specs
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.8 GHz
4GB Ram
NVIDIAGeForce 9600M GT 512MB (not used by chrome since it's all at the application level, no hardware acceleration)
Microsoft is getting it's DirectX Big Guns and trying to give us a glimpse of what the web will be once every other browser will be doing hardware accelerated graphics. Google better make a move quickly to not loose momentum with chrome.
Using hardware accelerated graphics is clever, and the lack of proper OpenGL support out-of-the-box in current Windows may prove a hassle for contenders to attack multiple platforms. Ditching OpenGL really paid off for Microsoft.