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hackerwayne

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Feb 17, 2012
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Im planning to sell my Mid 2011 13" MacBook Air and my Mid 2009 MacBook Pro and buy a 13" Retina MacBook Pro. Probably the base i5 2.5GHz with 128GB SSD and the extra cash goes to a casing or probably ACPP. How fast is the rMBP i5 compared to my 13" 2011 MacBook Air i7? I know Intel HD 4000 smokes the 3000 but how about raw CPU power? Cuz im comparing 1.8GHz Sandy i7 vs 2.5GHz Ivy i5
 

HishamAkhtar

macrumors 6502a
Oct 22, 2011
510
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Im planning to sell my Mid 2011 13" MacBook Air and my Mid 2009 MacBook Pro and buy a 13" Retina MacBook Pro. Probably the base i5 2.5GHz with 128GB SSD and the extra cash goes to a casing or probably ACPP. How fast is the rMBP i5 compared to my 13" 2011 MacBook Air i7? I know Intel HD 4000 smokes the 3000 but how about raw CPU power? Cuz im comparing 1.8GHz Sandy i7 vs 2.5GHz Ivy i5

Can you wait until June? I'm not sure the current 13 inch MBPr is worth the money at the moment and definitely needs a CPU and GPU bump that'll come with Haswell and the new HD 5000 series iGPU (+/- quad core processing/dGPU but don't hold your breath).

The current MBPr i5 is comparable relatively to the 1.8 Ghz i7 in the 2012 MBA in terms of performance.
 
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