Buy New MBP or Not?

[DRR]

WHiiP wrote:
[quote=N-OS X-tasy!]
I made this move earlier this year. Loved my 2010 i7 MPB, but the new one is twice as fast and, as you point out, your current MBP will never be worth more than it is today. If you have the money, I'd say go for it.

How does going from a 2.66 i7 to a 2.4 i7 Double your speed? I truly don't understand.
It's an oversimplification of the phrase, but the old one is dual core and the new one is quad core and has a new architecture.

For most tasks, probably about the same speed. For certain processor intensive tasks, I would not be surprised if it was twice as fast.

[decay]

this review with benchmarks is interesting:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5113/apple...011-review

[N-OS X-tasy!]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
I made this move earlier this year. Loved my 2010 i7 MPB, but the new one is twice as fast

I guess I should qualify this statement by clarifying that I purchased the top-of-the-line (at the time) 2011 model with max L3 cache and video card/VRAM.

[IronMac]

Hrmmmmmm.....

Black wrote:
And all of your software will work in Lion?

[sunfalcon]

It's Christmas!! Just do it.

[digby]

If your MBP feels too heavy to carry around sometimes, there are rumors of a lighter one* coming out in June.

*My personal gut reaction is that Apple will cram a MBP into a MacBook AIR-type case.

[IronMac]

I'd hate that because I need the high-res display.

digby wrote:
If your MBP feels too heavy to carry around sometimes, there are rumors of a lighter one* coming out in June.

*My personal gut reaction is that Apple will cram a MBP into a MacBook AIR-type case.