Upgrade Macbook 2.2GHz (late 2007)

[khephir]

Hi people,

I'm looking at upgrading my 3 year old Macbook (2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB ram, late 2007 model). Although I was looking forward to the release of the new MBA, their clock speeds seem worse than that of my 3 year old Macbook!

Therefore, I'm tossing between getting a MBA or wait until the release of the new 13" Macbook Pro (hopefully in a few months time).

My question is, Does my old macbook really outperform the new MBAs?

Cheers,

N

 

[And1ss]

Probably. But, are you looking for the bto models or just the cto models? And is ultimate portability something you are looking for?

 

[flopticalcube]

Hi people,

I'm looking at upgrading my 3 year old Macbook (2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB ram, late 2007 model). Although I was looking forward to the release of the new MBA, their clock speeds seem worse than that of my 3 year old Macbook!

Therefore, I'm tossing between getting a MBA or wait until the release of the new 13" Macbook Pro (hopefully in a few months time).

My question is, Does my old macbook really outperform the new MBAs?

Cheers,

N

Only in raw processing speeds. Overall, the MBA is nearly as fast as the new MacBook Pro i5. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1038895/

 

[tkermit]

I'm looking at upgrading my 3 year old Macbook (2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4GB ram, late 2007 model). Although I was looking forward to the release of the new MBA, their clock speeds seem worse than that of my 3 year old Macbook!

Therefore, I'm tossing between getting a MBA or wait until the release of the new 13" Macbook Pro (hopefully in a few months time).

My question is, Does my old macbook really outperform the new MBAs?

It will, as soon as you put an SSD in there.

 

[dissolve]

Barefeats ran a few interesting tests you should check out before writing off the new MBAs:

http://www.barefeats.com/mbpp29.html
http://www.barefeats.com/mbpp30.html

The 13" MBA certainly holds its own compared to the 13" MBP