Skip to main content

⚠️ Please note that this topic or post has been archived. The information contained here may no longer be accurate or up-to-date. ⚠️

New MBPro ??

Steve Karr Teching
Hey all,
I have been thinking of upgrading my 2010 MBPro i7 2 core for the 2011 4 core. Has anyone done this yet and have any real world feedback?
No need to talk about ram, ssd's or other magic power - I am just interested in i7 2 vs. 4 core performance differences in real teching power.

Thanks!
Steve
0

Comments

2 comments

Date Votes
  • rap_digital
    It's night and day. I have the early 2011 and am very happy. I would looks at a refurb early 2011 over the latest just so I didn't have to use lion with the money saved could put 16gb ram or two really big ssd's.
    0
  • nggalai
    Hi Steve,

    I own both a 2010 MBPro i7 (2x2.66 GHz, 15") and a 2011 iMac i7 (4x2.8 GHz) so this is not a direct comparison, but can give you an idea about what to expect performance-wise: The current 2011 MacBook Pros use the same micro-architecture found in the iMac, “Sandy Bridgeâ€. It’s basically the same processor, just with a tad less clock speed and a slower integrated graphics solution (and thus smaller footprint and lower power consumption than the CPU used in the iMac). But architecture, caches etc. are identical.

    As rap_digital said, it’s no comparison, at least when working with Capture One.


    For the purpose of testing performance, I exported the same 10 images (18 MP DNG from a Leica M9) on both machines with version 6.3.2 of Capture One in 64 Bit mode on Lion 10.7.2. I exported these ten photos to 1280x852 JPEG @ 84 % quality, for web use. Results:

    MacBook Pro Mid-2010 (dual-core i7, 2.66 GHz) takes 50 seconds.

    iMac 2011 (quad-core i7, 2.8 GHz) is done in 24 seconds.

    (Both numbers rounded down from the average of three test runs, I used a hand-held stop watch.)

    Both computers are equipped with SSD, the MacBook’s after-market Intel seems faster than the iMac’s shipped Toshiba (?) drive. And in both cases Capture One gobbles up about the same amount of RAM while processing (about 1 GiB, no swapping needed with either computer).

    Hope this helps,

    -Sascha
    0

Post is closed for comments.