04-13-2010, 08:02 PM
Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
I agree with M A V I C on some points. There will be no USB 3 on any Intel based computer until 2010 unless the motherboard manufacturer decides to add it. A USB 3 ExpressCard was just announced, so I guess you could get USB 3 on the 17" MacBook Pro if someone makes drivers for it.
Huh? USB3 mobos have been shipping since 2009... if not as of a few months ago.
eSATA is faster than FW800. The vast majority of products that use FW800 are hard drives that could frequently benefit from the faster interface. The first i7 laptop I clicked on at Newegg did not have USB 3, but it did have a powered eSATA/USB port.
I wonder how many years after PCs get SATA 6Gb Macs will get it.
Yay, they gave the graphics a solid boost, the MacBook Pro finally has a significantly faster GPU than is in my 4 year old Dell laptop.
Yep. I want them to either make it a Pro laptop, or rename it the "MacBook Mediocre." But today's update is still pretty big. I think they should just get their heads out of the clouds as to what they actually did.
RAMd®d wrote:
It's got "Turbo Boost." No joke.
That was the only disappointing thing I saw, but it really bugs me.
It sounds like DELL's or Comcast's, or somebody's really poor marketing. Sound's like really cheap spin.
It *does* sound like a joke.
Turbo Boost is actually pretty cool. On quad core processors, if a process is not taking advantage of multiple cores, it turns off two cores and diverts the power to the other two cores to dynamically overlcock them. That way if you have something going on that needs one fast core, it will run faster.