Upgraded from Santa Rosa (2007) to Haswell (2013) MacBook Pro

[bra34b]

My 15" 2.4GHz Santa Rosa still works, the battery only lasts about 30 minutes, so I thought it was time to upgrade. Very happy with the new machine:

Apple MacBook Pro
15-inch: 2.0GHz
with Retina display
2.0GHz quad-core Intel Core i7
Turbo Boost up to 3.2GHz
8GB 1600MHz memory
256GB PCIe-based flash storage1
Intel Iris Pro Graphics

 

[Doward]

That's one heck of an upgrade

 

[rgarjr]

Cool, Im coming from a late 2008 13" MB.

 

[radiohead14]

nice! the santa rosa mbp was my first mac. my haswell rmbp is my 4th. must be quite the jump in performance going from that model.

 

[bra34b]

Once again, it's a pleasure to use my computer. Everything is just so smooth and cool. The Santa Rosa got very warm and the Haswell remains completely cool. It's nice to have a working battery too. PS3 Media Server works without any hiccups. The SSD hard drive is fast and the retina screen is amazing. I was using my iPhone even while at home because of the retina screen, not anymore.

 

[the caveman]

The 2007 santa rosa was my first mac and thats when registered on here. It is still rocking although it is mainly a netflix machine for wife.

 

[kockgunner]

I still remember when Santa Rosa was sate of the art and I was waiting (and ultimately bought) the Penryn model. Those computers really burned your legs and were pretty problematic especially with the Nvidia graphics cards.

 

[hexblot]

Will be getting my very own 13" rMBP soon, to replace my (relatively) ancient-but-still-working-sufficiently-well RevA early 2008 MBA. I can certainly feel the excitement here