Re: duo core or i5 in an mbp?

2010-09-09 Thread Scott Granados
...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Johnson Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 2:04 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: duo core or i5 in an mbp? hay all, Well I've a question for you all, I'm soon to be picking up a macbook pro and there are two options, the duo 2.4/2.66

duo core or i5 in an mbp?

2010-09-08 Thread Matthew Johnson
hay all, Well I've a question for you all, I'm soon to be picking up a macbook pro and there are two options, the duo 2.4/2.66 or the i5, with significant price differences between them. I do not want to buy into duo core, especially since its already like 3 years old and is set to be

RE: duo core or i5 in an mbp?

2010-09-08 Thread Cameron
is also important. Cameron. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Johnson Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 2:04 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: duo core or i5 in an mbp? hay all, Well I've

Re: duo core or i5 in an mbp?

2010-09-08 Thread Chris Blouch
important. Cameron. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionar...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Matthew Johnson Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2010 2:04 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: duo core or i5 in an mbp? hay all, Well I've a question

RE: duo core or i5 in an mbp?

2010-09-08 Thread Cameron
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