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Jan 27, 2010
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I currently have the Macbook Book Pro Beginning 2010 edition - here are its specs:
-17 inches
500gb hard drive w/7200 rpms
8gb of RAM
2.66ghz Interl Core i7
External Condition: Good ~ (about 5 scratches which are 1/3 of an inch)
Internal Condition: Excellent ~ (everything works - no problem)

I personally enjoy technology I have loved it since I was little and now too, only the I hate about it is that it advances way too fast.

Since I love technology a lot i do multiple activies from:
Photo Editing, 3D Animation, Coding (windows from bootcamp),gaming, and primarily Movie Editing.

Now i love my macbook pro for movie editing and all those sorts of projects but the only bad thing is that I have almost finished using all space in my harddrive and sometimes i use my 60gb SSD, I've also considered deleting my Boot Camp but i have too much valuable coding.

Now I've done some homework on this and calculated that I can sell my mbp for about $1400-1650 and even more if supply some of my programs i've bought in years.

Now reason why I want to do this is because of Thunderbolt.

I understand how it's a new I/O and all that but the speeds on the HD/SDD's and streaming capabilities just was way too good, I also understand how there isn't any devices for it yet but I can wait a couple of months.

Ive been thinking is the Quad-Core i7 really a bigger diff. than the i7? As well as the Nvidia 450gtu compared to the AMD Radeon 6750 Graphics?

That's really it, I just want to hear where you guys think.. should i sell my mbp or keep it?
 
Well I bought the 2010 17" 2.8 i7 less than 2 weeks ago. I put in my 8 GB of ram and my 240 GB SSD and it got at the highest a 6600 on my geekbench test. I put the same ram and SSD into the 2.2 i7 and i got 11078 so for me there was a pretty big difference.
 
nice so it is significantly faster - is there any devices for Thunderbolt yet?

Also is there a way to test the graphic card difference, I read somewhere that the old 2010 nvidia 330m is 40% faster than the AMD Graphic 4490m and that the AMD Graphic 4750m was better but used more of the GPU
 
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