MACBOOK PRO 5 1 INTEL CORE 2 DUO WINDOWS

MACBOOK PRO 5 1 INTEL CORE 2 DUO WINDOWS

There are two ways you can look at this you can say that at this point, anything with a Core 2 (even an old Merom) is more than powerful enough to run Windows and handle any reasonable task a thin and light notebook might be asked to. We’ve never tested a Core i5 ULV, but we'll see the Core i3 ULV in a review shortly and it's in the same ballpark as Core 2-and the overclocked Core i3-330UM in the ASUS UL80Jt is basically on par with the MBP. I have none of these complaints for the Core i5/i7 sporting 15” and 17” models, however.Īt this juncture, any notebook with a Core i3 can outrun the MBP. People expect Macs to cost more almost by default, but after a couple of years of the MBP13 being a decent value for a premium quality notebook (look at the old Envy 13 for comparison), it’s particularly jarring now to see it be so far behind the competition. Quite frankly, it’s almost pathetic that Apple decided they could get away with a Core 2-based processor for another year at a price point that can get you a 14” aluminum unibody notebook with a quad core i7-720QM (HP, we’d still like to test an Envy 14, thanks). The G50V and dv5t were $1200 notebooks back then, and they’re basically on par with the current MBP13.

Here’s why it’s really sad: the MBP13 results would fit pretty well in our old Core 2 Duo notebook roundups, like this one from two years ago.

It’s not that evident in day to day use, and in most games performance is more dependant on the graphics card, but application performance benchmarks are where the Core 2 Duo really makes itself felt (and not in a good way). It’s kind of embarrassing to be reviewing a $1200 computer with a two year old processor and application performance to match. Apple MacBook Pro 13-Core 2 Duo Performance

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