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Just picked up a 2.3GHz QUAD 17" Hi resolution Antiglare MBP!! Geekbench score INSIDE

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jjahshik32

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Its goregous and FAST!! I just picked it up. No dead/stuck pixels, no backlight bleeding, very vivid colors and looks like all systems are go! :D Will post pic soon.

I just ran it OMG!!

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These things are REAL desktop replacements! I'm going to have to put my Mac Pro for sale now.
 
jjahshik32 said:
Its goregous and FAST!! I just picked it up. No dead/stuck pixels, no backlight bleeding, very vivid colors and looks like all systems are go! :D Will post pic soon.
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How can you pick it up? Isn't it build-to-order only on the hi-res screens?
 
jjahshik32 said:
Its goregous and FAST!! I just picked it up. No dead/stuck pixels, no backlight bleeding, very vivid colors and looks like all systems are go! :D Will post pic soon.
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Congrats with that monster :)

How are the temperatures if you max all 4 cores and how is the battery life?
 
zinka said:
How can you pick it up? Isn't it build-to-order only on the hi-res screens?
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My local Galleria had them in stock. Its a decked out 17", $2799 with the antiglare model with 750GB of HDD space.
 
I find it insane how these things can score higher than my 2.8GHz QUAD Mac Pro!
 
Just picked up my i7 2.3 matte with a biz discount. They had them in stock as well!
 
Anyone know if the stores are carrying a 15" configuration with the 1680x1050 screen resolution?
 
Is the box of the anti-glare with a black bezel? Reason why im asking is I just saw at the apple store that the anti-glare 15 incher was apparently pictured on the box with a black bezel display. Someone please confirm.
 
Sick. Really looking forward to my BTO 15" now........ come on, build it and ship it, gogogogogogoogogogoo!one1!!!

My current 15" MBP clocks in at just over a whopping 3000 geekbench score... Not sure I can handle the 3X speed increase.
 
GGJstudios said:
You can confirm yourself. Just go here: http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html
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Also, this was already answered in the other thread you posted on this question.
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I was just at the apple store, and the guy showed me the box containing an "anti-glare macbook" that clearly said "anti-glare" screen in spec and "AG" on it BUT it had a picture of the macbook pictured with a black bezel, which is what confused me. Unless Apple actually screwed up on the packaging.
 
Whitelightning said:
I was just at the apple store, and the guy showed me a box that clearly said "anti-glare" screen in spec and "AG" on it BUT it had a picture of the macbook pictured with a black bezel, which is what confused me. Unless Apple actually screwed up on the packaging.
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They don't make a separate box picture just for anti-glare.
 
jjahshik32 said:
I find it insane how these things can score higher than my 2.8GHz QUAD Mac Pro!
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Synthetic benchmark. :rolleyes:

The machine is NOT faster than a Mac Pro. Both machines have processors based on the Nehalem architecture and hence perform pretty equal clock per clock. Given that 2.8GHz is considerably higher than 2.3GHz, the Mac Pro is undoubtedly faster.

Seriously, don't rely on those benchmarks. Geekbench has never been a reliable benchmark for processing power. Especially with the re-introduction of HT, the results got really messed up!
 
Transporteur said:
Synthetic benchmark. :rolleyes:

The machine is NOT faster than a Mac Pro. Both machines have processors based on the Nehalem architecture and hence perform pretty equal clock per clock. Given that 2.8GHz is considerably higher than 2.3GHz, the Mac Pro is undoubtedly faster.

Seriously, don't rely on those benchmarks. Geekbench has never been a reliable benchmark for processing power. Especially with the re-introduction of HT, the results got really messed up!
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Sandy Bridge will come to the Mac Pro's later. Intel will introduce 8-core Sandy Bridge i7 CPU's, I wonder what a 2 x 8-core Sandy Bridge i7 will be like, should be atleast 50.000 in geekbench :)

I think the geekscores are in line with their performance. The Arrendale MBP scores around 5000-6000 with only 2-cores, which makes sense as they have half the power.
 
mark28 said:
Sandy Bridge will come to the Mac Pro's later. Intel will introduce 8-core Sandy Bridge i7 CPU's, I wonder what a 2 x 8-core Sandy Bridge i7 will be like, should be atleast 50.000 in geekbench alteast :)
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You didn't really understand my post, did you? :rolleyes:
No offense, I'm just trying to understand how that relates to my post.

Edit: Your edit should have come a little ealier. ;) But still, GB is not reliable and doesn't reflect real world performance. Just take a look at the 2008 2.8GHz octad Pro vs. 2009 2.26GHz octad Pro. Although the 2009 machine shows 50% more performance in GB, real world advantage is -10 to +20%.
 
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