I was so impressed by the review that I subscribed to the rss feed for that site.
If you've decided to get the high-end configuration of the 15-inch macbook pro, do share your experiences with it. I myself am a windows user but am thinking of trying out snow leopard by installing it on windows. The notebook that I'm using is powered by a sandybridge quad core I7 processor and I'm pretty impressed at the performance particularly for doing things like video and audio conversion. What I'm not so happy about is the below-average batterylife of this computer because of the processor. I do wonder how apple manages to get so much batterylife despite the fact that it uses a quad core i7. -----Original Message----- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of ShamelessFanGirl Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 11:28 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: macbook pro specks? Hello Dickson, This is perfectly geeky in all the best ways. :) Thanks so much for sharing, and in spite of what I said earlier regarding size, etc, I'm in your camp on this one as well. Have a fabulous afternoon Twitter: @IndigoCellist Skype: shameless_FanGirl Sent from my iPhone On Apr 15, 2011, at 11:16 AM, "Dickson Tan" <dickson.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've found this ridiculously long, 21-page review (which is very good, > with all the techy details you could want). This review talks about > all the new macs, the 13 and 15 inch models. I highly recommend > reading through the whole thing. > > http://www.anandtech.com/print/4205 > > If I were getting a new sandybridge macbook, I would get the 15" > high-end configuration option. > > -----Original Message----- > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of ShamelessFanGirl > Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 10:18 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: macbook pro specks? > > Morning all, > > I find myself in that exact position with regard to which system to go for. > I love the form-factor, size, and weight of the 13 inch pro, intend to > max it as far as I can, certainly with regard to processor and ram, > but to those of you who use this system/configuration, how do you find > it to play ? One of the biggest complaints I've encountered from those > folks who own them, is the heft of carrying around a 15 inch pro. > ideally, and in a perfect world, I eventually want to get a Macbook > pro for travel, an iMac for home usage to alleviate a lot of my > demand, wear and tear on the pro in other words, and throw my wickedly > huge media library at something like a mini, but as I said, that's in > a perfect world, so I'm brought back to the unending loop of where to > begin this venture first? Decisions, decisions...If the trend in > cases, etc is anything to go by, the 13 inch footprint seems to be > where a lot of folks fetch up, yet for me, it comes down to power, as I'm the sort of person who pushes my system hard, simply to watch it surpass expectation. > > > Thanks for any/all input, and for that given so far. > > > Twitter: @IndigoCellist > > Skype: shameless_FanGirl > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Apr 15, 2011, at 8:42 AM, "Dickson Tan" <dickson.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Can you tell me, in as much detail as possible, what you can remember >> of the specs of the 2 macbook pros you are thinking of buying? >> >> If performance is important to you, then getting a 2nd generation >> core >> I7 quad core processor (also known as a sandybridge processor is the >> way > to go. >> When looking at the internal hard drive, the 7200RPM hard drives >> perform better than their 5400RPM counterparts or if you really want >> even better performance, then get a solid state drive (though it is >> very expensive), the performance of an SSD is unparralelled. You'd >> also want to get 4gb of ddr3 ram, running at 1366mhz or more, if >> you're > running a 64-bit system. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kliph&Sharrie >> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 5:20 AM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: RE: macbook pro specks? >> >> More detail is better for me, that way I know what I am getting with >> my choice. So please elaborate. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dickson Tan >> Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2011 2:24 PM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: RE: macbook pro specks? >> >> No; you cannot compare processors from different generations that way. >> Which quad core I7 processor are you referring to? There is the first >> generation quad core I7 processor and the new second generation >> sandybridge quad core >> I7 processor, released only 2 months ago. >> >> Although the duel core processor you mentioned has higher clock >> speed, that doesn't mean that it is faster; clock speed isn't the >> only thing that determines a CPU's overall performance. Things like >> the number of cores (the higher the better), the size of L3 cache, >> whether the CPU supports turboboost 2.0 technology or not, how many >> threads the CPU can support at once are also contributing factors of the CPU's speed. >> >> Essentially, the quad core I7 processor is a lot faster than the duel >> core one. There are other things like a more powerful integrated GPU >> Chip which makes them so much faster, but I won't go into detail here. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Kliph&Sharrie >> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2011 1:01 AM >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Subject: macbook pro specks? >> >> So, shopping around a little bit for what I might want. And I see >> that the >> 15.4 model macbook pros have a i7 quod core processor, and the 13.3 >> has a dool core. Now on the quod core the processor is listed at 2.2 >> GHZ, and on the dool core it's listed at 2.7 GHZ, both with 4 gigs of >> ram. 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