How much improvement from C2D to i5?

[yalag]

My friend is offering me a macbook pro for a cheap price because he is switching back to a PC. I currently own a 2.66 C2D macbook pro with 4Gb ram. His macbook pro is brand new last week 2.4 i5 with 4Gb ram. How much improvement from C2D to i5? Does it make sense for me to upgrade? I'm familiar with the graphic cards and such.

Thank you!

 

[simsaladimbamba]

If your computational needs would benefit from a speedup, maybe have a look here: Mac Benchmarks by Geekbench

 

[Schtumple]

It's enormous, I went from 2.53ghz C2D to 2.66 i7 and the jump is incredible...

 

[yalag]

If your computational needs would benefit from a speedup, maybe have a look here: Mac Benchmarks by Geekbench

Am I reading it right??

MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011)
Intel Core i5-2435M 2.4 GHz (2 cores) 6096

MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2010)
Intel Core 2 Duo P8800 2.66 GHz (2 cores) 3645

 

[Schtumple]

Am I reading it right??

MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011)
Intel Core i5-2435M 2.4 GHz (2 cores) 6096

MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2010)
Intel Core 2 Duo P8800 2.66 GHz (2 cores) 3645

For the longest time now, GHz numbers haven't meant much anymore... It's all optimisation and dual core technology improvements.

 

[Trentolol]

You will notice a great difference...an awesome one.

 

[yalag]

Does anyone know how the graphic compares?

 

[jekyoo]

Honestly, I didn't think the macbook pro was worth it until recently. Apple was always behind when it came to processors used but once sandy bridge came out and they packaged it with the mbp, I was sold. Sandy bridge is a big upgrade from C2d where I finally bought a mbp

 

[Medic278]

The difference between the two is leaps and bounds, I have a dual core i7 and it blew my C2D out of the water and into the stratosphere it was so much faster.

 

[dukebound85]

It's enormous, I went from 2.53ghz C2D to 2.66 i7 and the jump is incredible...

For day to day, my 2.26 c2d mb is the same as my 2.66 i7mbp

 

[Schtumple]

For day to day, my 2.26 c2d mb is the same as my 2.66 i7mbp

Really?? The boot time of my i7 is way under half and virtually all applications load and run faster.

 

[Ccrew]

Really?? The boot time of my i7 is way under half and virtually all applications load and run faster.

If all you use it for is like a light up typewriter, he's probably correct. There are a *lot* of folks out there who's computing needs are at that level, in which case you're really not stressing the computer enough to see a huge difference.

 

[dukebound85]

Really?? The boot time of my i7 is way under half and virtually all applications load and run faster.

The boot time for both machines is nearly the same in my experiences

As far as usage, anything such as internet, email, word, music, it is the same experience.

Even more resource hungry apps like Matlab arent that much different though in most cases the work I do in Matlab is ram hungary and not cpu intense and I have 8 gigs in each machine.

However, if we talk about video transcoding, the i7 dominates it. I am sure it does in other ways too but not in ways I use my machines

However, even with this in mind, I still get tech lust haha