New Macbooks

V For Vendetta · 17 May 2007 at 21:37

Just did an xbench on my new macbook

MacMini
CoreDuo 1.66
1GB ram

scored 78

blackbook
Core2Duo 2.16
1GB ram (have 2GB coming soon)

scored 112

thats a 34 point speed bump over the mini, which is roughly a 44% speed increase

J1234 · 17 May 2007 at 21:40

WotDa said:
About 1 or 2.

But, that's not the point tbh.

Well said, we need more Mac pr0n.

triggerthat · 18 May 2007 at 23:45

chex said:
my local store has macbook pros on clearance and says they're getting the updated version next week...

Hmm - I thought the stores didn't know anything about future releases?

chex · 18 May 2007 at 23:50

they could maybe figure it out from the way the supplies are coming in?

they also had macbooks on clearance a few days before the new macbooks came out, but I didnt ask why.

fini · 19 May 2007 at 00:03

Aren't we due a hardware update in October (when Leopard launches)? I'm waiting for Leopard to launch before I buy a macbook and presumed there'd be a hardware update at the same time..

chex · 19 May 2007 at 00:25

I doubt they will release hardware updates and a new OS at the same time, it doesn't make sense, they would be too busy, also with the iphone coming out.

They need to get Santa Rosa out of the way before July.

On a side note, does anyone think the Macbooks will get Santa Rosa anytime soon?

JonB · 19 May 2007 at 00:36

Macbook pro, yes. Macbook, no.

chex · 19 May 2007 at 00:38

how do they expect to get away with giving people a 2 year old integrated graphics card...

I really dont understand why they're not giving us Santa Rosa + integrated graphics in the macbook, its not like it'd be competing with discrete graphics in the Pro.

triggerthat · 19 May 2007 at 00:40

Don't know why they released the Macbook and then a week later, planning on releasing the Macbook Pro. Shouldn't of they done them at the same time?

chex · 19 May 2007 at 00:41

They did them a month apart last time...