Tired of my old PowerBook G4, time for an upgrade.
Getting a new unibody Macbook Pro!

No I don't care if you think macs suck.

I can't decide which processor. Having some trouble finding concise to the point comparisons on the two through google. Is it worth the extra cash($300) for the faster processor?

2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
2.93GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

5/8/2009 10:39:40 AM

I think macs suck, do you care?

[Edited on May 8, 2009 at 10:44 AM. Reason : ps I'd go for the upgraded processor]

5/8/2009 10:44:40 AM

macs suck and unless you're going to be doing a ton of video encoding, theres nothing you can do on that mac that will take advantage of a few extra clock cycles.

Unless of course you install windows, in which case theres no reason to get a mac in the first place.

5/8/2009 10:53:52 AM

^lol

^^lol


I have a 17" unibody with the 2.66GHz. I do a lot of development and design work on it and its more than enough. I also run two VM's (Win XP and Vista) at the same time for testing purposes and I've had no problems at all. But I also have 4gb of RAM so thats something I would definitely spend the money on or save yourself a few bucks and order the memory from newegg and install yourself.

5/8/2009 11:03:51 AM

Obvious Question: What are you going to be doing with your laptop? Are you going to be doing a lot of processor intensive things that will really benefit from the extra 333 MHz?

5/8/2009 11:08:42 AM

2.66ghz for sho. although maybe the 2.93 would have better resale value some day.

I like to think i work my 2.5ghz pretty well. I always have an XP VMware session running and i do a lot of Lightroom, Photoshop, Word, a bit of Final Cut, and of course tons of firefox tabs open. thats with 4gigs of ram.

This thing multitasks like a champ.

5/8/2009 12:18:59 PM

I've got the 2.66 hasn't ever been less than adequate for my needs

5/8/2009 1:06:30 PM

Macs are such a damn ripoff.

5/8/2009 5:12:39 PM

there was a time when i believed that, too.

5/8/2009 8:09:24 PM

i always buy the higher end model to help with resale value

5/8/2009 8:23:06 PM

yeah, go with the 2.66, you won't notice the difference in performance and honestly it doesn't justify the price increase.

$11/MHz is pretty damn expensive.

5/8/2009 11:15:28 PM

either one of them will scream, especially compared to your G4....

5/8/2009 11:28:36 PM