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I know they got bumped a little each revision, but in reality what would be the true performance difference between a 1.83 with 4gb ram (showing 3) and a bone stock new 2.2 book with no upgrades?

(then for kicks, with 4gb ram on the 2.2)
 
It's going to depend on what apps you're running. For standard day-to-day use, you're not going to notice a whole lot of difference. If you're a Photoshop user, then frankly the extra RAM will make more difference than the CPU if you're dealing with big files.

Overall, if you have the 1.83, I really don't think it would be worth upgrading to the 2.2. Not enough performance hike for the dough.
 
Barefeats.com has benchmarks. You just have to find the old benchmarks and compare to recent benchmarks.

It's application and sometimes harddrive dependent.
 
Unless you're doing something REALLY CPU intensive. I mean REALLY REALLY CPU intensive, then there would be no noticeable difference at all.

Break out a few benchmark utilities and a stopwatch and you might be able to measure the difference but are you going to notice if you have to wait 6.5s for something instead of 5.8s?
 
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