Just got in from the Apple store and tried out a 17 inch MBP, core i7 2.66 GHz. I've been doing a speed test on a few different machines to get a "real world" comparison on how they stack up. I encoded a 70 MB Quicktime through MPEG Streamclip on 3 different systems, using the same file and same settings, clocking the length of time it took to encode.
Here are the results:
15" MBP, C2D 2.66 GHz, 4 GB RAM-2:41
17" MBP, Core i7 2.66 GHz, 4 GB RAM-1:30
Mac Pro, 3.2 GHz Harpertown Octo, 6 GB RAM-1:21
So, the limited experience that I had on the new MBP was pretty good. A much better experience than the wait for some dude to finish surfing the internet so I could get on the machine to begin with. 😡 Seriously, what is it with that place? People were on the computers checking Facebook. What's logging onto Facebook going to tell you about how well a $2500 computer will run? My beater home PC surfs Facebook and does all other interwebbing just fine. But, here's how it stacks up in the encode test:
Cicero PC, Pentium 4, 2.20 GHz, 1.2 GB RAM (a $500 machine, circa 2003)-28:00 😀
Here are the results:
15" MBP, C2D 2.66 GHz, 4 GB RAM-2:41
17" MBP, Core i7 2.66 GHz, 4 GB RAM-1:30
Mac Pro, 3.2 GHz Harpertown Octo, 6 GB RAM-1:21
So, the limited experience that I had on the new MBP was pretty good. A much better experience than the wait for some dude to finish surfing the internet so I could get on the machine to begin with. 😡 Seriously, what is it with that place? People were on the computers checking Facebook. What's logging onto Facebook going to tell you about how well a $2500 computer will run? My beater home PC surfs Facebook and does all other interwebbing just fine. But, here's how it stacks up in the encode test:
Cicero PC, Pentium 4, 2.20 GHz, 1.2 GB RAM (a $500 machine, circa 2003)-28:00 😀