my 2¢...
Outside of the two high-end 2011 27" iMacs the 2011 Macbook Pro's are still faster than most of the new iMac lineup, how's that possible?!
Oh, I dunno, just a hunch that the same data and processes travel faster in a smaller area/less distance for MBP vs. iMac. I'm probably wrong, but again, just a hunch.
Physics, most of which are beyond my comprehension
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More threads, more processors, more cache. In otherwords more!
It still doesn't make much sense to me why the 2011 iMacs are barely faster than the 2011 MacBook Pro's (outperformed by them on the 21.5" models mind you) as they should be even faster, unless there is some truth in what
OS X Dude said earlier:
Maybe Apple has underclocked the processors in the iMacs for heat reasons? My MBP does get rather hot rather quickly...
Overall, I'm personally not too impressed by these new iMacs, as are some others for similar reasons:
Scores aren't that much more impressive over my MBP....
This just makes the MBP look that much better..
I'm still not impressed? I can't understand why the 2.3 2011 MacBook Pro scores a high of around 11390 and the latest iMac core i7 3.4 hits around 12700?? It's not that much of a jump for 1ghz extra speed on 4 cores?
The only models really worth upgrading over are the base model with the HD 6750M (compared to the old Mobility HD 4670) and the high end 27" with the 6970M (if you can not live without it.)
The middle is an average upgrade since Redwood and Turks are barely any different in performance.
I wonder why the 2.3 and 2.2 MBP are coming so close to the performance of the 3.4 iMac. Even if Turbo Boost is more aggressive on the notebooks (because max turbo closes the clock speed gap) the 30% increase in base clock speed should account for more.
Either way of it, from these SandyBridge iMac benchmarks they make the current 2011 MBP's look
even more fantastic, albeit pricer when compared to an iMac, but nonetheless impressive in terms of performance. I think the ONLY reason(s) I'd consider picking up one of these new iMacs are for the following:
- lower price point (when compared to the MBP's).
- capacity for dual internal hard drives without losing the optical drive.
- high-resolution screen.
- more RAM capacity (27" model goes up to 16GB)
- no need/desire for portability.
Outside of these considerations I think the MBP is currently the better computer by Apple overall at the moment over these SNB iMacs, and if I had an iMac from either '10, '09 or even '08 I would wait until '12 to see how they improve the iMac line-up.
