so $1700 for the high end one wasn't a bad deal for me, although it may be for people all over the world.
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Regret not getting 2.66Ghz after owning 2.4Ghz MBP!(Advice Needed)
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I agree completely. I went from a 2009 macbook to the i7 mbp. The macbook had a 7k500 in it and the mbp the stock drive. For startup of apps, there are many instances when I don't really notice much of a difference because the 7k500 performs so well. I remember when I switched it originally in the macbook; everything seemed to be twice as fast immediately. I'm sure I'll experience the same when I switch out the stock drive of the mbp soon. I'm waiting to see which one of the new 7200rpm drives is best.
Just wondering or you know? You seemed to have come out right away and said you regretted it so you must know or believe you know that the 2.66 is somehow going to be better than the 2.4.
In numbers on paper perhaps, real life application, not at all. The fact is if the 2.66 was say an i5 then yes, 2.66 i5 > 2.4 hands down. However, you seem to believe that you don't have enough based on .26 mHz. I think you need ram first then check out an SSD or a faster RPM drive.
Even better:
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/internal_storage/Mercury_Extreme_SSD_Sandforce/Solid_State_Pro
Smokes the InteL-X.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/internal_storage/Mercury_Extreme_SSD_Sandforce/Solid_State_Pro
Smokes the InteL-X.
i5 Easily. But you'll see the difference mostly in extremely processor intensive tasks (Film Editing etc).
totally true. My SSD gives one bounce, actually it doesn't even get a chance to finish the bounce. it's jumps and then app loads lol. SSD all the way!
As others have said, get an ssd over a 2.66. One of my friends has recently purchased a 2.4 mbp13 with the standard 5400rpm drive and his firefox app loads up instantly so I'm not too sure why yours is taking its time.
Anyways, I have this video bookmarked as it's a good one showing the power of an ssd with an mbp13. It's a 2.53 c2d but the difference between that and a 2.4 is so small it's unnoticeable - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioY380Fm7j4&feature=related
Anyways, I have this video bookmarked as it's a good one showing the power of an ssd with an mbp13. It's a 2.53 c2d but the difference between that and a 2.4 is so small it's unnoticeable - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioY380Fm7j4&feature=related
Just wanted to say that's wrong. It's actually 260 mhz. Not .26
As to the difference 260 will make? Probably naff all, the OP should visit an Apple store and have a look, but personally I would do as said MANY times replace the hard drive and max the ram. That's exactly what I will be doing next year with my i7.
Yep. You'll need an optibay drive or equivalent to put a second SSD or HDD in the laptop, then your DVD drive will be external only running off both USB ports.
I'd suggest a Momentus XT or scorpio black to the OP. Depending on how much you want to spend or how much space you need can dictate that. The momentus would give a bigger boost, but costs about twice as much. Personally, I am pleased with the scorpio black I bought. I hardly notice any difference with sound and vibration, but it is a decent boost in performance.
SSD will make all the difference, the 2.66 won't. And what's all this advice about upgrading RAM - 4GB is plenty enough unless one is running VMs.
It was night and day going from a 320GB 5400 rpm drive to the Hitachi 7K500 for me, and the SSD will be even that much faster.
It was night and day going from a 320GB 5400 rpm drive to the Hitachi 7K500 for me, and the SSD will be even that much faster.
There's also the fact that you are comparing a mac to a PC, firefox was developped for windows in the first place, of course it'll be faster on the PC. That and the fact that windows xp uses about half the ressources snow leopard does and you've got your speed difference right there.
Unless you're doing very processor intensive tasks, you will not notice a thing between the two MBP's. The processor just isn't the bottleneck, here.
Performance degradation over time. OWC Mercury Extreme seems to have fixed this though. Just moved all my media over to my AirDisk, so I'm thinking of going for the OWC 60gig for $180 now that I can survive without 250+ gigs