Comments on: MacBook Performance (May 2007)

By: John

John — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:20:43 +0000

Hi Ian,

Take a look at the MacBook Pro results from April's Geekbench Comparison; in particular, the entry-level MacBook Pro has an overall Geekbench score of 2825, while the high-end MacBook (from this article) has a Geekbench score of 2841.

MacBook Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.16GHz	2825
MacBook Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.16GHz	2841

So really, there's not a lot of difference between the MacBook and the MacBook Pro when it comes to processor performance (which isn't surprising, considering both use the same kind of processor and the same kind of memory).

By: Ian

Ian — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 22:04:30 +0000

Hi John,

Is there any chance you could do a compare btw the Macbook 2.16Ghz and the entry level MacBook Pro. It would be interesting to see if the extra cash is worthwhile purely on a performace perspective. (ignoring screen size, case etc)

Ian

By: John

John — Mon, 21 May 2007 20:43:55 +0000

Chris,

Unfortunately sysctl hw.model returns MacBook2,1 for both revisions, so it's hard to distinguish programatically between the new MacBooks and the old MacBooks. If there's another mechanism for determine which revision a particular Mac is I'd love to hear it!

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 20 May 2007 17:02:50 +0000

The revised MacBooks are distinguished as MacBook (13-inch Mid 2007)

By: Proud

Proud — Sat, 19 May 2007 18:17:45 +0000

You forget to mention the new MacBooks come with 8x SuperDrives now, instead of 6x.

By: John

John — Sat, 19 May 2007 06:15:35 +0000

Ted,

It's confusing because it is confusing. Unfortunately the latest MacBooks identify themselves as "MacBook (Late 2006)", so there's no way to distinguish between the latest revision and the previous revision.

By: Ted Wood

Ted Wood — Sat, 19 May 2007 05:21:52 +0000

You have all three MacBooks listed as “Late 2006″. That’s confusing, unless I’m confused. A better comparison would be to compare two laptops of the same processor speed against each other. Of course a faster processor of the same family is going to have better performance.