MacBook Pros Upgraded and Shipped

Moby Cock writes "Apple Insider is reporting that Apple has started shipping the new MacBook Pro with an upgrade to the CPU clock speed. The two models now sport 1.83 GHz and 2.0 GHz Core Duos (up from 1.67 GHz and 1.83 GHz). A 2.16 GHz upgrade is also available. The price point remains the same." Dear Apple: Slashdot needs to review 5 of these indefinitely. Thank you XOXO ;) Seriously, i'm waiting for someone to give good benchmarks on these- especially testing for Warcraft. Now that it has a new Universal Binary I can't wait to see how it holds up against a modern windows machine.

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[backslashdot]

Why did this get marked troll?? What's he's saying is true .. people are just blind to reality when it come to Apple. It' a sorry state. Show me specs of any Mac OS X machine outperforming the top Windows game. It's not jut performance it's low cost customiation option too that Windows leads in. In my opinion, Apple's snobbish attitude to third parties and refusal to open up their BIOS has led to these problems.

a lot to discuss here

[Tedium Unleased]

another fucking minor change to the apple product line

Re:This doesn't deserve an article.

[Tedium Unleased]

CmdrSuckOff is hoping Apple sends his shitty editors laptops like they did for those open source developers.

Re:So many upgrades, so little time.

[Jozer99]

All us PC people could handle 2.16 GHz back in 2002. You will get used to it. Go ahead, it is a flame, after all...

Re:This doesn't deserve an article.

[Tedium Unleased]

fuck off

Hum

[obeythefist]

Seriously, i'm waiting for someone to give good benchmarks on these- especially testing for Warcraft. Now that it has a new Universal Binary I can't wait to see how it holds up against a modern windows machine.

Someone once said, on Slashdot of course, that Mac users were more technically astute than Windows users. Power users, if you will. Above we see more evidence to the contrary.

But seriously - the Macintel gear can't hold up against a modern Windows machine. Why not?

Because your modern Windows machine will traditionally have a more powerful AMD processor. AMD's solutions, even the mobile ones, outperform Intel consistently at low prices. It'll possibly have more RAM, better integrated graphics, and so on. Moreso - it will be customisable and easy to optimise the hardware for gaming purposes. (We're talking laptops here, generic x86 desktops will have even more power than your generic Mac).

But I agree - I also can't wait to see how it holds up. I want to see the look on the Mac fanboy's faces when they realise that just because they have an x86, it's still a Mac and they paid way more money for less computing power than the regular Windows and Linux guys do.