News - Apple MacBook Pro gets Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors

[HEXUS]

Apple's line of high-end notebooks are now available with Intel's latest CPUs and NVIDIA Optimus technology.

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[TheAnimus]

About damn time!

But nothing in the 13" for a i7? Surely that can't be right?

[Percy1983]

I always wanted pay a lot more for an i7 because it comes in a white case...

[mikerr]

Bit disappointed with the 13" version, I see no real reason to upgrade my 13" MBP

Also a bit surprised they haven't gone SSD on them all either.

[spoon_]

You can get SSDs - have to pay extra, click on Customize or whatever its called.

[TheAnimus]

Also a bit surprised they haven't gone SSD on them all either.

Apple's cutting edge OS still doesn't support TRIM. I guess they blew it.

[spoon_]

Apple's cutting edge OS still doesn't support TRIM. I guess they blew it.

How many people are complaining about degradation of performance because of TRIM? [or rather lack of it]

Haven't seen any.

Everyone keeps moaning about it but most of them people don't know what/how its affecting them [if at all]

Cool thing to have/say but is it practical?

[TheAnimus]

Cool thing to have/say but is it practical?

Wait what?!

Yes the performance of SSDs falls off without TRIM. This is not a question in doubt, this is a easily understood fact.

If your going to spend £300+ and thats what all the good ones still cost in any reasonable capacity for a laptop, you damn well want it to last without having to re-format all your data.

(outside of a laptop, on one of my 3 powerful dev boxes I had at an old place, this was not a problem, on a laptop that has heavy use, ie not a netbook... Its essential, given the target sterotype of photo geeks, it just shows how the reality distortion field works. I cannot imagine a more stupid sentiment than the "but is trim practical".)

[aidanjt]

Haven't seen any.

You wouldn't. The Church of Jobs only delivers pure perfection to the faithful.

[Platinum]

Quite fancy the 15" model with the 1680 x 1050 screen, Win 7 install (dons flame proof coat), Steam installed and I would have a nice upgrade from my 13" Macbook

To pre empt posts I have given OSX and jsut prefer Windows 7, perhaps because I have been a Windows user for so long and I am stuck in my ways , Do a fair bit of gaming on the laptop so makes sense, however with Steam coming out for Mac things could change

[spoon_]

Wait what?!

Yes the performance of SSDs falls off without TRIM. This is not a question in doubt, this is a easily understood fact.

If your going to spend £300+ and thats what all the good ones still cost in any reasonable capacity for a laptop, you damn well want it to last without having to re-format all your data.

(outside of a laptop, on one of my 3 powerful dev boxes I had at an old place, this was not a problem, on a laptop that has heavy use, ie not a netbook... Its essential, given the target sterotype of photo geeks, it just shows how the reality distortion field works. I cannot imagine a more stupid sentiment than the "but is trim practical".)

I'm not gonna comment on Apple pricing.

Have you owned/currently have SSD?

You wouldn't. The Church of Jobs only delivers pure perfection to the faithful.

Matey I don't own any Apple hardware so re-think what you just said.

[aidanjt]

Matey I don't own any Apple hardware so re-think what you just said.

That, my friend, is very obvious, if you did you'd probably get the joke.

[TheAnimus]

Have you owned/currently have SSD?

Rightie In order

X-25E x 5
X-25M x 2
FusionIO 256 x 2
OCZ value thing x 1
Memtron x 1
X-21M x 1
OCZ Vertex x 1

So yes, yes I have.

[jonny4288]

dont think i will be upgrading my current macbook pro for a while yet... not much point

15"
9600gt 512
c2d 2.53
4gb ddr3

hardley worth the outley for core i5/core i7 and gt330m

[alsenior]

there £500 more expensive than a similarly equipped lenovo t510. sorely tempted though just dont know if its worth 500 more than the lenovo

[Mattus]

I was excited about the mobile i7, until I realised that it's basically half an i7. 2 cores, 4 threads. That means it's not really better than the i5, and not an awful lot better than previous offerings...