http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/ Engadget Comments for Is a Core i7-based MacBook Pro strutting its specs in the wild? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 6:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/
I was hoping that Apple would go back to ATI graphics soon.]]>Feb 6th 2010 7:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 10:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Details: http://bit.ly/macbook-pro-core-i5-details

Although, this one is a bit more concise with some benchmarks from geekdom. The only question now is, How many grand
should we shell-out? ]]>Feb 7th 2010 3:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/
That's not what i meant. The point of Geekbench is that given the same hardware it will give the same performance regardless of the OS it's ran on.]]>Feb 7th 2010 2:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Though I don't doubt that there are approaches that can be taken to alleviate the difference that Operating Systems can mean for performance there is still the issue of OS Overhead which will have an impact on the benchmark score. For this reason I believe that it is impossible to have a Benchmark that runs within a host Operating System that is truely OS independent]]>Feb 7th 2010 4:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.66GHz 1073
Integer Processor integer performance 1378
Floating Point Processor floating point performance 1111
Memory Memory performance 659
Stream Memory bandwidth performance 704

hmmm

8 year old laptop, unmodded]]>Feb 6th 2010 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/It thrashes both my iMac (2008):
http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/189540
And my Hackintosh:
http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/view/191659]]>Feb 6th 2010 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/
it looks like processors havn't really changed much in the past 10 years... just more dependable on RAM... my machine is running on 495 MB of RAM and 8 MB running my display... I used to care about my hardware... had a desktop, upgraded monthly... back in the 386,486 p1 p2 days... but it seems we are at a pinnacle and havn't done much in a decade, except for graphic processors... ]]>Feb 6th 2010 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Of course. You'll be able to fry your eggs in less time than with the Core2Duo! And when the time comes for a quad-core processor, you can replace your whole stove! ]]>Feb 6th 2010 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/
Seriously? I would argue It is just the opposite.... The IBM ASCII RED supercomputer launched in 1999 set a then-enormous record score of over 2 teraflops. We now have consumer PC graphics cards that can nearly match that (double precision).. (I understand the comparison is not completely analogous since you are talking about CPUs, but the point remains)

Check out these benchmarks

Intel Pentium IV 1.5Ghz (single-core ) - released Nov 2000
PassMark Score: 180

Intel Core i7 965 3.2Ghz (quad-core) - released Nov 2008
PassMark Score: 6800

In a few moths the 6-core Westmere will be out with 50% better performance and the 8-core Nehalem-ex will be out H2 2010.
By the time the 22nm "Haswell" processor comes out in 2012, a Pentium IV will be a complete joke.
]]>Feb 6th 2010 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 7:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/
Name some things a PC can do today that a PC couldn't do in 2000, based on the above standard.]]>Feb 7th 2010 3:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/
Processors haven't changed much in the past 10 years? Have you been living under a rock?

Any core2duo will eat your P4 and its kids for breakfast and this new revised MBP will have a Core i7. ]]>Feb 7th 2010 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/"Name some things a PC can do today that a PC couldn't do in 2000, based on the above standard."

For my old computer to encode 1 dvd, my new one did 5 dvds in that time. If we were to do single core vs single core like you suggest, processors of today are still many times faster. Read up on CPU architecture and you'll understand.]]>Feb 7th 2010 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 7th 2010 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/
Before that you had to sell out $50K to buy special boards like those made by Avid and Media 100 to display and edit video on a computer.

]]>Feb 7th 2010 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.intel.com/products/processor/corei7/mobile/specifications.htm only uses 35w cpu/gpu so I would assume pretty good. ]]>Feb 6th 2010 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/
Desktop chips != laptop chips. They are often underclocked when you compare performance/dollar. Most importantly, it's really the quad core chips that suck up a lot of power, and you rarely see those in laptops.]]>Feb 6th 2010 9:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 3:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/
Check out the program called Crossover. I have steam installed, and so far I can play L4D 2, Portal, HL2, and several other games within Snow Leopard with no issues at all. Sometimes at the very beginning of loading a game it can get kinda slow, but within a few seconds it clears up and runs extremely well. ]]>Feb 6th 2010 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Crossover games supports Steam.
]]>Feb 6th 2010 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/i think USB 3.0 is highly unlikely. Apple is going to be focusing on lightpeek I believe.]]>Feb 6th 2010 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 4:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/
Apple is putting a lot of R&D into light peak. The last thing they want is a competing standard. Especially since almost nothing has USB 3.0 atm, I'd find it highly doubtful that Apple would put it on their laptops yet.]]>Feb 6th 2010 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/
@Tubamajuba That is a good point though.]]>Feb 6th 2010 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 8:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/I was getting at the same point Delta made. I don't see them supporting a rival technology, no matter how much sooner USB 3.0 will be ready. ]]>Feb 7th 2010 3:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/Feb 6th 2010 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/06/is-a-core-i7-based-macbook-pro-strutting-its-specs-in-the-wild/
IPS does come in higher resolution panels, you know.

And also, what is going to be the graphics processor? Thats probably the most important question. If Apple has not figured out instant graphics card switching in OSX, its over for the MBP. Unless, they already have.]]>Feb 6th 2010 3:47PM