Made a huge mistake buying the 15 inch Macbook Pro

[mark28]

Render movies at a fraction of the time (quad core vs dual), and have it sit under my desk while I leave my room with my macbook air sipping my coffee in my den watching a HD movie on my 52 inch TV.

Wanna compare what your experience would be like walking around with a laptop at 80-90C on your lap while it's incredibly slow trying to render a movie while trying to surf the internet and trying to stream a HD movie to your tv?

We both paid the same amount.

How about an overclocked i7 6-core PC vs a $5000 12-core 2.66 ghz Mac Pro. In alot of tasks, this regular i7 will blow away that Xeon CPU since Core speed > number of cores in most tasks due to how poorly multicore support is optimized. ( some cores can be maxed while other cores do nothing, so core speed is more valuable for most stuff )

And at rendering movies, if the 6-core i7 PC is clocked at 4ghz+, it's a close race

Xeon CPU is really for server imo. Why do you need error checkings for home use? Those types of errors never happen in practise anyway.

 

[davidlv]

You have buyer's remorse. Unless there's a psycho analyst here on the forums you'll just have to live with it.
...<groan>

OP see the post above. He's right you do have a case of Buyer's remorse.
However, there are lots of things you can do to relieve the pain, and get some good use out of the brand new MBP:
1. Take a beautiful woman out for dinner, and then go home to bed. Late that night you can update your diary or blog (word processor or specialized blog software) on that brand new MacBook Pro in a new light.
2. Bang your head on a stone wall, 'till you are semi-unconscious. (This one is NOT really recommended, but it will work to make you forget the buyer's remorse temporarily.) And you can use your MBP to keep track of your medical bills on a spreadsheet (iWork or Office etc.).
3. Go fishing. Take pics of all the big fish you catch. Use your MBP (iPhoto) to catalog your pictures or send them to you friends (Mail or Gmail account through a web browser).
I am sure others can provide their own list of "cures" for this malady, for you are certainly not the only one to have had it.
If none of the abov work for you, and they might not if you reaally want to feel down, send me that MBP, I will put it to good use!

 

[dime21]

i have 4 HP servers waiting approval to be purchased. each one is dual x5650 Xeon's. 6 core and 12MB of cache each CPU. how much cache is the i7?

i Core CPU's can't be used in dual CPU configurations

no wai!! my core i7 is more awesomer and is just as good as your overpriced servers!!1111

 

[dime21]

Xeon CPU is really for server imo. Why do you need error checkings for home use?

You don't need ECC for home use. But then again, you don't need 12 CPU cores and 32 GB of RAM for home use either. So what's your point?

Those types of errors never happen in practise anyway.

Huh? Are you really claiming that memory modules are all 100% perfectly reliable and never ever fail?? You must be joking.

A machine with ECC will provide meaningful error messages letting you know you have a bad memory module, while the operating system and applications are running, and without shutting down or corrupting your data.

A machine without ECC is not capable of even detecting these errors - it will just crash and act strangely. The only way to detect a bad module is to shut down the computer and run a software tool which reads and writes to every available memory address and compares the results. Memtest86 for example. Of course you cannot do this on a running system though, so you won't even know you have failed memory until your system starts crashing.

 

[wordoflife]

I would trade you my 2 week old MBP 13 and pay you $300 for your 15 inch!
Seriously though, enjoy it. Its a nice computer

 

[nizmoz]

How about an overclocked i7 6-core PC vs a $5000 12-core 2.66 ghz Mac Pro. In alot of tasks, this regular i7 will blow away that Xeon CPU since Core speed > number of cores in most tasks due to how poorly multicore support is optimized. ( some cores can be maxed while other cores do nothing, so core speed is more valuable for most stuff )

And at rendering movies, if the 6-core i7 PC is clocked at 4ghz+, it's a close race

Xeon CPU is really for server imo. Why do you need error checkings for home use? Those types of errors never happen in practise anyway.

Don't forget the i7 uses VIRTUAL cores. They aren't the same as the 12 cores or the XEON processors. That is worth the extra cost.

 

[Richard1028]

I would trade you my 2 week old MBP 13 and pay you $300 for your 15 inch!

I suspect you're joking but this really is something the OP might consider. There must be somebody out there that needs more power out of their 13" and would be willing to work something out.

 

[adnoh]

How did you end up walking into an apple store prepared to buy the 13" and walk out with the 15" in hand an $500 less rich?

 

[jh1988]

dont worry i bought my dell xps m1330 (i think its like 13 inches )
when it first came out for about $2500 and realized it was kinda small but i have to admit it is so damn light and fast.
just plug it into your tv and get a external mouse and your set.
dont sweat it.

you may think you got too small or something but trust me as a student and carrying your laptop around, even 1lb difference is huge after a full day. lol
and at home it makes no difference if its small or not.

turn that frown upside down --->

 

[antster94]

Return it and wait until the next MBP 13" is out and get that is my advice.

 

[miata]

You can always change the screen to run at a low resolution. It won't look so good, but that way you won't have to rack your brain trying to figure out what to do with the higher resolution.