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Alu Macbook 2.0 vs Blackbook 2.4 CPU Performance

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kubricks

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I remember seeing some benches but I can't recall where.

Are the new 2.0ghz Macbooks equivalent to the old 2.4 Black or 2.1ghz whites in CPU intensive tasks (non graphic stuff). Is the new buss speed and ram enough to bump it up?
 
kubricks said:
I remember seeing some benches but I can't recall where.

Are the new 2.0ghz Macbooks equivalent to the old 2.4 Black or 2.1ghz whites in CPU intensive tasks (non graphic stuff). Is the new buss speed and ram enough to bump it up?
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Edit - Saw the link
 
The new MacBooks probably won't be much faster until Snow Leopard. At this point with no GPU-for-regular-tasks support, it won't be any faster.
 
But are they comparable in performance to the old 2.4ghz?

I wish I could remember where I saw the benchmarks, if I remember right, the alu 2.0ghz was slightly better than the old 2.4 in most benches.
 
jav6454 said:
I bought the 2.4GHz just because I know even though .4GHz isn't much of a difference (.8GHz if you take into account its a processor with 2 cores each clocked at 2.4GHz). It certainly will be nice to have that difference once Snow Leo hits and takes advantages of everything the chipset offers.
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You didn't answer the Original Post. It asked about the Black Book And your rational about .8ghz doesn't really make sense.
 
kubricks said:
But are they comparable in performance to the old 2.4ghz?

I wish I could remember where I saw the benchmarks, if I remember right, the alu 2.0ghz was slightly better than the old 2.4 in most benches.
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You would be wrong. The old 2.4 beat the new 2.0 in benchmark tests (excluding graphic stuff of course).

http://www.primatelabs.ca/blog/2008/10/macbook-and-macbook-pro-performance-october-2008/

The old 2.4 is also very close to the new 2.4 one in performance. When Snow Leopard comes out who knows. No one knows what the benchmarks will be. It will only be guesses right now.
 
Anandtech did a very good review here http://anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3435

His conclusion was that the previous penryn macbook's performance compared to the new macbook was pretty similar. Not a whole lot of difference.

And the recommendation was to wait for Nehalem if you want to see significant performance increases.

Otherwise, the only reason to buy the new macbook is for the look, led screen, and multi-touch.
 
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