I have the I7 with the 500 GB SSD drive and it's the bees knees. I just found
out that my helpdesk guy hooked me up.:)
On Sep 8, 2010, at 12:46 PM, Chris Blouch wrote:
I have an i5 machine and it seems like more of my waiting is disk input
output than CPU bound. That's with the 7200 RPM
Hi. What will you be using the machine for? That's very important to
consider when deciding on specs...
In any case, even the slower I5 processor would give you a lot more
horsepower than the core 2 duo 2.66gHz processor.
Depending on what you'll be using the machine for, discussing ram is
I have an i5 machine and it seems like more of my waiting is disk
input output than CPU bound. That's with the 7200 RPM drive. I can see
why flash drives are becoming the rage since disk I O is being a
bottleneck to these crazy fast processors.
CB
On 9/8/10 3:22 PM, Cameron wrote:
Hi.
To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: duo core or i5 in an mbp?
I have an i5 machine and it seems like more of my waiting is disk
input output than CPU bound. That's with the 7200 RPM drive. I can see
why flash drives are becoming the rage since disk I O is being a
bottleneck to these crazy fast
