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13" no good?
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Judging by the fact that I get more then 6 hours on my 2.26 MBP13, I would say that it is very likely that you can get more with a 2.4 MBP13.
Get 13" and use that $700 toward future 13" which will be much faster than 15" i7.
I have owned the best model of Apple Laptops and spent around $2700....but in matter of year or two it becomes outdated. 13" C2D or 15" i7, they will both be outdated pretty fast. 13" 2.4GHz is enough for what you said you do, and if you save your money right now, you can invest that money on your future laptop if you feel like 13" is way to slow to do anything.
I have 13" 2.4GHz model, and it works great.
I have owned the best model of Apple Laptops and spent around $2700....but in matter of year or two it becomes outdated. 13" C2D or 15" i7, they will both be outdated pretty fast. 13" 2.4GHz is enough for what you said you do, and if you save your money right now, you can invest that money on your future laptop if you feel like 13" is way to slow to do anything.
I have 13" 2.4GHz model, and it works great.
Arrandale is a new microarchitecture based on Nehalem and is not a die shrink of Penryn, which is what the Core 2 Duos are based on.
I know that they are calling it that, but in terms of the actual internal functions, it's nearly identical. They just brought more things from the northbridge to on-die to reduce total package size.
It's not even close to comparable to the actual architecture redo we saw going from netburst to core and core2 microarchitecture. Nahelam doesn't substantially increase performance/clock with hyperthreading off.
Nice slide BTW.
I purchased a 13" for my daughter and matched it up with a 24 inch display when she was back at her apartment. Very portable, plenty of power for everyday needs, big screen at home and in all likelihood will last four years at which time it can be replaced for the next big thing. I am still using computers I spent alot of money on 6 years ago that would sell for $200 today (and have far less power than the 13 inch MBP).
eventually with your requirement, even a netbook can do the work.
so why spend so much unless there is alot of heavy gaming.
i did some finding and finally commit on MBP 13.
today is the 2nd day im using it.. it look great and web browsing is quicker.
the only thing is now is trying to cope with mac os which shouldnt be difficult.
the interface was user friendly.
im proud of my purchase
i spend USD1700 previously on my fujitsu and yet is now consider like having heart attack and you never know when it will pass out after only 2years.
now only using it for browsing.
so why spend so much unless there is alot of heavy gaming.
i did some finding and finally commit on MBP 13.
today is the 2nd day im using it.. it look great and web browsing is quicker.
the only thing is now is trying to cope with mac os which shouldnt be difficult.
the interface was user friendly.
im proud of my purchase
i spend USD1700 previously on my fujitsu and yet is now consider like having heart attack and you never know when it will pass out after only 2years.
now only using it for browsing.
eventually with your requirement, even a netbook can do the work.
so why spend so much unless there is alot of heavy gaming.
i did some finding and finally commit on MBP 13.
today is the 2nd day im using it.. it look great and web browsing is quicker.
the only thing is now is trying to cope with mac os which shouldnt be difficult.
the interface was user friendly.
im proud of my purchase
i spend USD1700 previously on my fujitsu and yet is now consider like having heart attack and you never know when it will pass out after only 2years.
now only using it for browsing.
so why spend so much unless there is alot of heavy gaming.
i did some finding and finally commit on MBP 13.
today is the 2nd day im using it.. it look great and web browsing is quicker.
the only thing is now is trying to cope with mac os which shouldnt be difficult.
the interface was user friendly.
im proud of my purchase
i spend USD1700 previously on my fujitsu and yet is now consider like having heart attack and you never know when it will pass out after only 2years.
now only using it for browsing.
I have a similar question, but my uses are a bit more intense. A bit of intro:
I have a 2007 MBP (pre unibody) 15", 2.4ghz Core 2 duo, 8600M GT. I use it for the web, music, video, word processing, coding, virtual machines, basically the whole gamut except gaming.
I am fine with its performance.
However, the laptop is getting old and I'm nearing the time for upgrade as I don't think it will survive much longer. My question: do you guys think the 13" Macbook Pro will manage to perform as well as my old 15" model? Specifically, will the 320M cause me any problems if I'm not gaming? How does it compare to the 8600M GT?
I have a 2007 MBP (pre unibody) 15", 2.4ghz Core 2 duo, 8600M GT. I use it for the web, music, video, word processing, coding, virtual machines, basically the whole gamut except gaming.
I am fine with its performance.
However, the laptop is getting old and I'm nearing the time for upgrade as I don't think it will survive much longer. My question: do you guys think the 13" Macbook Pro will manage to perform as well as my old 15" model? Specifically, will the 320M cause me any problems if I'm not gaming? How does it compare to the 8600M GT?