Mid 2009 running hot and slow.

[Tenashus1]

Apart from cleaning the fan, and repairing permissions is there anything else to do to try to improve performance here? It already has 8gb ram, and an SSD, but I'm afraid that the CPU is now sorely outdated. Aiming toward new Mac Book Air to replace, but curious anyway.

 

[Tenashus1]

Apart from cleaning the fan, and repairing permissions is there anything else to do to try to improve performance here? It already has 8gb ram, and an SSD, but I'm afraid that the CPU is now sorely outdated. Aiming toward new Mac Book Air to replace, but curious anyway.

Well, bye bye mid 2009 MBP. 4 years of good service. Adios amigo.

 

[Vanilla35]

Apart from cleaning the fan, and repairing permissions is there anything else to do to try to improve performance here? It already has 8gb ram, and an SSD, but I'm afraid that the CPU is now sorely outdated. Aiming toward new Mac Book Air to replace, but curious anyway.

Yeah probably not. Opening it up and cleaning the inside is most likely what would get you the best performance out of it. Most people don't wanna do that though. Of course performance has come a long way since 09, as usual.

 

[AppleTecFan]

I think its time to say good bye to your macbook.

 

[RoboWarriorSr]

The new MacBook Pros (retina 2012) are about 4X faster then the 2009 MacBook Pro. So it's definitely going to feel slower now.

 

[thermodynamic]

Well, bye bye mid 2009 MBP. 4 years of good service. Adios amigo.

The new MacBook Pros (retina 2012) are about 4X faster then the 2009 MacBook Pro. So it's definitely going to feel slower now.

4x is a tad much, though nobody would deny the newer models are faster in many ways... especially with faster buses for peripherals such as hard drives, faster video subsystem, etc...

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core2-Duo-T9600-vs-Intel-Core-i7-3615QM
(interesting differences; did not know the T9600 had 6x as much on-die cache...)

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/laptop.html
(here is where the ~3.5x claim tallies up, but static benchmarks vs real life usage are often considerably different. The CPU is 3x faster but it doesn't follow suit that the OS and apps will run that much faster, as the previous benchmark alluded to. Depending on how much L1, L2, and L3 cache exist on the CPU die, and the type of application being ran (3D rendering vs database manipulation), one CPU won't fare better than the other by the same amount...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro
(has the whole list of CPU model #s; finding those and comparing online to get ideal performance variables is only a small matter of time.)

 

[RoboWarriorSr]

4x is a tad much, though nobody would deny the newer models are faster in many ways... especially with faster buses for peripherals such as hard drives, faster video subsystem, etc...

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core2-Duo-T9600-vs-Intel-Core-i7-3615QM
(interesting differences; did not know the T9600 had 6x as much on-die cache...)

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/laptop.html
(here is where the ~3.5x claim tallies up, but static benchmarks vs real life usage are often considerably different. The CPU is 3x faster but it doesn't follow suit that the OS and apps will run that much faster, as the previous benchmark alluded to. Depending on how much L1, L2, and L3 cache exist on the CPU die, and the type of application being ran (3D rendering vs database manipulation), one CPU won't fare better than the other by the same amount...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Pro
(has the whole list of CPU model #s; finding those and comparing online to get ideal performance variables is only a small matter of time.)

I got the 4X roughly by looking at Geekbench scores but still, 3.5X is a huge jump and it definitely shows. Running handbrake on my 2009 takes forever (around 1 hour for 24 minute video). People in the forums with the retina MacBook Pro say it take less then 10 minutes for the same video. That's a huge jump in performance.