Heat + Battery 13'' 2.4 vs. 2.67

[mac(maybe)]

Dear experts,

I would like to buy a 2010 mbp 13'', with heat, portability and battery life issues as most important factors.

Given the fact that, in this respect, I consider a good choice to have a core2duo instead of an i3 or i5 given the reduced power consumption,
I would like to ask:

2.4 vs. 2.67: would I see less heat developing on the chassis? What about the battery life?

Another question: is the capacity of the disk (320 or 500 GB) somewhat influencing heat and battery life?

I really thank you in advance for any advice!!!

Dan

 

[Hellhammer]

2.4GHz should run little cooler and give longer battery life as it consumes less power

HD doesn't affect the battery life more than 1%, so...

Get the low-end, high-end ain't worth it

 

[mac(maybe)]

2.4GHz should run little cooler and give longer battery life as it consumes less power

HD doesn't affect the battery life more than 1%, so...

Get the low-end, high-end ain't worth it

Thanks for your answer.
Do you mean low-end disk as well (320 GB)?

 

[Hellhammer]

Thanks for your answer.
Do you mean low-end disk as well (320 GB)?

Yes. You can upgrade it yourself later on and get up to 1TB

 

[EasyJW]

The higher end will use a tiny bit more battery but you won't really notice it, saying that you won't notice the speed bump either

so go with the lower end one

 

[mac(maybe)]

The higher end will use a tiny bit more battery but you won't really notice it, saying that you won't notice the speed bump either

so go with the lower end one

Beware, I always stop-watch myself zipping a 10GB file. So I would definitely notice it!!!

Jokes apart, I am a computational scientist and a bit of bash scripting + graphical postprocessing of molecular simulations (mainly on a 24'' external screen, mainly opengl stuff) is all I will ask to my small laptop.
The big things are being done either on a cluster or on a graphical workstation.

 

[instaxgirl]

I bought the low end - far too expensive for almost no upgrade for the higher end.

Thus far this thing is running beautifully and extremely cooly. I occasionally hear a slight whirr that suggests fans, but there doesn't ever seem to be much heat. Then again I think the most taxing thing I've made it do so far is video chat while editing photos.

The battery life is outstanding. I've had it 4 days and have charged it twice. It's probably been used for about 5/6 hours a night since I got it. I keep lifting it up and going to move the wire out my way then realising, no wire needed

 

[mac(maybe)]

By the way, I now have a Fujitsu S7110 with a T2400 1.83 Ghz Core duo and 2.5 Gb ram. I have windows xp + cygwin, and I really push this laptop to its limits, with graphics, fortran programming, testing and scientific production.

This processor is 31 W and running Windows Xp and low display I (used to) reach 4 Hrs battery life.

I think that IN ANY CASE with the Core2Duo 25 W with 3MB L2 Cache, SpeedStep, Vanderpool etc. (and, main thing, mac os x ) I will see improvements everywhere... can't wait.