Alessandro17 Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=3246&p=1 The new MacBook and MacBook Pro, much like the MacBook Air before them, are much more functions of Intel's innovation rather than Apple's. In the case of the new MacBook and Pro models, the innovation is almost exclusively limited to what Intel has been able to do with mobile Penryn as Apple made no changes to the exterior of either system. Regardless of where the innovation comes from, it is still an improvement in technology and mobile Penryn proves to be everything we expected it to be. The biggest improvement by far comes in the battery life department. Just as we had seen earlier, you can expect these new models to outlast their predecessors by a good 7 - 15%. The performance side of things is more of a mixed bag. There are some situations where Penryn is clearly faster than Merom while others show the two with equal performance. It's for this reason that we say the biggest improvement lies in battery life, not performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 Thx, good review...except if they want to accurately compare CPU speed, they should use a 7200RPM drive on both notebooks... I noticed an interesting post in Anand's blog; he tried out OSx86! Post title is "Observations on building a Hackintosh" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted March 1, 2008 Author Share Posted March 1, 2008 Thx, good review...except if they want to accurately compare CPU speed, they should use a 7200RPM drive on both notebooks... I noticed an interesting post in Anand's blog; he tried out OSx86! Post title is "Observations on building a Hackintosh" Thanks. Do you have a link? I can't find it. Edit: I found it: http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/default.aspx (posted on February 29, 2008). (Excellent blog post BTW): Once OS X is fully up and running, there's little to differentiate a real Mac from a Hackintosh, other than the obviously incorrect information from the System Profiler. Performance has been excellent for a Mac, particularly since a Hackintosh allows one to live in that gap between the iMac and Mac Pro: a fast quad-core processor and full video card without the penalty of needing slow FB-DIMMs like the Mac Pro. I don't have a comparable Mac Pro on hand, but for consumer use I could easily buy in to the idea that it's faster than the Mac Pro since the FB-DIMM penalties are the most pronounced when gobs of RAM can't be used to boost application performance. System stability has been excellent once the AHCI issue was resolved, and I have not had a single issue with system or application crashes beyond applications that were already unstable on a proper Mac. ...................................................................... But to wrap things up, this blog isn't just about building a Hackintosh, but also about what it means for Apple. The fact that the Hackintosh even exists gives us a lot of mixed signals from Apple. Conventional wisdom has been that Apple will never separate Mac OS X from Apple's hardware due in part to the problems with compatibility, but the Hackintosh violates that idea; Apple could clearly support a number of products using common Intel chipsets and ATI/NVIDIA GPUs without an extreme amount of effort from the company. Furthermore their lacking effort to block Hackintoshes is an interesting paradox in and of itself: does Apple secretly want techies building Hackintoshes, perhaps as a way to encourage Mac sales? And why is Apple shooting itself in the foot by not offering a full sized desktop Mac for consumers, something techies are turning to Hackintoshes to fulfill? Right now Hackintoshes are too easy to build and work too well, something is not quite right about the situation. Perhaps like Apple's Project Marklar (the secret project to keep an up-to-date x86 port of Mac OS X) Apple is up to more than they are letting on? The situation right now is too good to be true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac.nub Posted March 1, 2008 Share Posted March 1, 2008 Nice, been looking for a review since they were released. Cheers, ~mac.nub Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ok0510@126.com Posted March 2, 2008 Share Posted March 2, 2008 Nice, been looking for a review since they were released. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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