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| 26-02-08 / 22:23 : New MacBookPro : the best choice (cjed) |
| As expected Apple a presented the new MacBook Pro, fitted with multitouch trackpad, and with the long awaited Penryn processors (6Mb of L2 cache at the processors frequency, SSE4 instructions that are necessary for good performance in pro audio&video softwares - imacs use the old processors with SSE3 instructions, that are still less powerful than G4's Altivec). The best model (price/performance ratio) is the entry level one, at 1999$, the 256Mb more (512Mb total) VRAM on the second model being unuseful, and other differences being minimal (slightly more powerful processor, 50Gb more disk space, one additional USB slot). The 500$ price difference isn't probably worth, considering the RAM is the same (2 Gb) in all three models. The 20"imac at 2,4Ghz, fitted with only 1Gb ram and a Radeon HD2600 Pro graphic card, is less powerfull (and also less portable and without multitouch nor LED backlit) and is however priced very close (1499$). We can then expect soon a price drop for the imacs. The new updated MacBook are very less interesting compared to the new Pro models : 1499$ for the MacBook 2,4Ghz (same Penryn processor with SSE4 but half the L2 cache), little screen size (and not LED), GMA video chipset, no firewire 800, no multitouch. In this case the 500$ price difference is more than worth. |
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