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How significant of an improvement..?

Raptura

Raptura

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Sep 6, 2008
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Toronto, Canada / London, UK
You can see the MacBook Pro I own in my signature. It's an early 2008 2.5 Ghz T9300 Core 2 Duo, 4 GB Ram, 250 GB, GeForce 8600M.

How much better would the $1299 MacBook Air be than my current MBP? :rolleyes:
 
Raptura said:
You can see the MacBook Pro I own in my signature. It's an early 2008 2.5 Ghz T9300 Core 2 Duo, 4 GB Ram, 250 GB, GeForce 8600M.

How much better would the $1299 MacBook Air be than my current MBP? :rolleyes:
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Graphics would be a step back, but everything else would be significantly faster on the new MacBook Air. Think of the 1.7GHz Core i5 as like a 3.5-4.0GHz Core 2 Duo, and the SSD as a super fast hard drive.
 
KPOM said:
Graphics would be a step back, but everything else would be significantly faster on the new MacBook Air. Think of the 1.7GHz Core i5 as like a 3.5-4.0GHz Core 2 Duo, and the SSD as a super fast hard drive.
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Thanks. I just want a speedier machine overall. I'm not too concerned about graphics. But, I'm not too familiar with the Intel 3000 Graphics. How much of a step back would it be?
 
Raptura said:
You can see the MacBook Pro I own in my signature. It's an early 2008 2.5 Ghz T9300 Core 2 Duo, 4 GB Ram, 250 GB, GeForce 8600M.

How much better would the $1299 MacBook Air be than my current MBP? :rolleyes:
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I switched from a similar machine - this one is twice as fast at everything but gaming.. effectively

Gaming is pretty much a wash for most things. now, when I say twice as fast.. that's crunching calculations.. it FEELS 3-4x faster imo due to the ssd.
 
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