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2008 MacBook Pros show modest speed gains
updated 07:30 pm EDT, Fri April 4, 2008
MacBook benches
Primate Labs has published new benchmarks for MacBooks and MacBook Pros released in early 2008. The models show marginal speed gains over their predecessors, in some cases exhibiting performance slower or roughly equal to previous models. The MacBook Pro Early 2008, for instance, shows a gain of just under three percent over the Mid 2007 MacBook Pro -- scores of 3323 and 3236 respectively. The Early 2008 model uses a Intel Core 2 Duo T9500 2.6 GHz, while the Mid 2007 model uses a Intel Core 2 Duo T7800 2.6 GHz (2 cores)
Meanwhile, the MacBook Early 2008, using a Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 2.1 GHz, has performance that is equivalent to the MacBook Mid 2007, which uses an Intel Core 2 Duo T7400 2.16 GHz.
A previous Primate Labs test revealed higher scores for MacBooks released in early 2008 than the latest models offered by Apple. In overall performance the early 2008 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook scored 3,135 against a baseline score of 1,000, which signifies the score a 1.6GHz Power Mac G5 would receive. Conversely, Apple's late 2008 2.2GHz MacBook scored 2,890 -- significantly less than the slightly older model.
Huh?
04/04, 07:45pm reply
Late 2008 models?
I hope MACNN has patented its time machine.
krispie
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power...
04/04, 08:18pm reply
Of course while maintaining similar performance with the prior generation they do so burning less power... which was the main goal of the Penryn processors (process shrink of an existing core, with some additions).
shawnce
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FW800
04/07, 11:41am reply
Is it also true that the previous model lacked FireWire-800? (the early-2008 has it).
Guest
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Plain old core duo
04/09, 04:07am reply
I have a first gen core duo (2GHz) - it would be most interesting to see that one in the comparison.
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