It’s quick.
Nilay Patel:
No two ways about this: the new MacBook Pro is the fastest laptop we’ve ever tested, hands-down. We were sent the stock $2,199 15-inch MacBook Pro, and its 2.2GHz quad-core Core i7-2720QM, 4GB of RAM, and AMD Radeon HD 6750M graphics with 1GB of dedicated GDDR5 RAM turned in numbers exceeding any Mac we’ve ever had in the labs. In fact, the raw CPU score is so high you’d have to step to a Mac Pro and Xeon processors to get anything faster, as far as we can tell. (That’ll obviously change when Apple bumps the iMac line to Sandy Bridge.)
iMacs to get Sandy Bridge too. Oh, how exciting fast.
AppleInsider gives you the down-low on the what the fuck Thunderbolt is as well.
Another interesting note, the MacBook Pro 15” (Late 2008 Unibody, $2,499) has a Geekbench of 2500, the MacBook Pro 15” (Early 2011 Unibody, $2,199) has a Geekbench of 9000. Go figure!
Get well soon, Mr. Steve Jobs.
You know, I’m really starting to feel this whole “tech advances too quickly” thing. Seems like I got my unibody MacBook Pro a few months ago, but it was actually January 2009 (a few months after the unibodies were announced). Since then, Apple has refreshed the MacBook Pros three times and now they are about to throw my model away! To top it off, I’m still stuck with an iPhone 3GS.
Money money money, Apple Apple Apple.
Kasper Jade and Neil Hughes:
Generally speaking, it appears that the setback with Cougar Point [chip] could delay notebook and desktop-based Sandy Bridge systems by anywhere from 6 weeks to two and a half months…
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