2009 mbp not as fast as 2006 mac

[sbb155]

I just bought a super decked out 2009 mbp, with 3 ghz proc, loaded with ram, and with ssd. It was over 3500.
My 3 year old mac pro, dual 2.66 (which I bought on ebay for $1400), is much faster than the brand new mbp. (by geekbench, cinebench, etc.)
One could get a used mac pro + new 13" mbp for less than I paid for my mbp 15". Probably a better combination - best of both worlds.

 

[daneoni]

A MBP won't be faster than 4 cores of Xeon processors with a 7200RPM desktop drive...SSD or not. Faster than a PowerMac yes...Mac Pro...not so much

 

[zw-gator]

LOL

What did you expect?

 

[andiwm2003]

not too surprising. apples high end tricked out MBP's are always very expensive for their performance. usually the midrange MBP's are the sweet spot for price/performance.

on top of that the mac pro's are very fast machines.

the only reason to get a high end MBP is when you need the power on the road. if you can do the heavy work at home and just need a notebook in addition to that a desktop/notebook combi was always the better choice.

 

[iLog.Genius]

A MBP won't be faster than 4 cores of Xeon processors with a 7200RPM desktop drive...SSD or not. Faster than a PowerMac yes...Mac Pro...not so much

The OP has the dual core Xeon not the quad core that starts at 3.0GHz but the fact still remains the same, a desktop will generally be faster than a laptop.

 

[Bill Gates]

This is why you don't waste money "decking-out" a MacBook Pro.

 

[reel2reel]

Define "slower." I've got a 2008 17" mbp that feels snappier than 2008 mac pro's I use at work, but that's probably because I don't load all kinds of crap onto it. Now if I'm rendering in final cut, the mac pro will excel, but I don't do much rendering on my mbp so who cares.

 

[mikes70mustang]

Define "slower." I've got a 2008 17" mbp that feels snappier than 2008 mac pro's I use at work, but that's probably because I don't load all kinds of crap onto it. Now if I'm rendering in final cut, the mac pro will excel, but I don't do much rendering on my mbp so who cares.

ha define snappier

 

[barkmonster]

Keeping a mac snappy is just case of good drive maintenance.

The whole install of Leopard and all my apps uses just short of 28Gb and that's after running monolingual.

I keep downloads, movies, my iTunes library and documents on a separate partition and for audio, I record to a dedicated drive on it's own bus.

It takes about a minute to start up which isn't too bad for a 7 year old system running off a 7200rpm ATA133 drive but those videos on youtube of a Mac Mini booting in 10 seconds with an Intel X25, plus the fact X25s can be had for about £170 now still shows me what "snappy" really means.

 

[Jiten]

It should have read 2009 mbp not as fast as 2006 mac PRO


Before decking out your Macbook Pro, you should have check out the speed test by Bearfeats.com.

It will probably take a few more generations before we can have Macbook Pros as fast as last generation's Mac Pros.