If, however, you want the fastest MacBook Pro available then go ahead and get an i7 you are paying a premium for the performance but at least it's not a steep premium!

Granted, it's got less drive space and less video card memory but it's still zippy. Personally, I think the low-end i5 is more than sufficient for most tasks (it's about 15% slower but costs 25% less). What people have been asking me, though, is whether they should get the i5 or the i7 MacBook Pro. Memory scores (especially Stream scores which measure raw memory bandwidth) are higher due to the integrated memory controller#Technology) on the i5 and i7. Turbo Boost and Hyper-Threading provide a nice boost to processor scores single-threaded workloads benefit from higher processor frequencies while multi-threaded workloads benefit from extra hardware threads. This is a result of the architecture improvements in the i5 and the i7. It's interesting to note, though, that the slowest Core i5 is faster than the fastest Core 2 Duo processor despite running at a much lower frequency (2.40GHz vs 3.06GHz).

It's no surprise the new laptops are faster. Results Overall Performance MacBook Pro (17-inch 2010) Interested in seeing how your current machine compares? Download Geekbench here and run it on your own system. Keep in mind Geekbench only measures processor and memory performance systems with the same processor but different video cards will score the same in Geekbench! Also, with Geekbench, higher scores are better.

Each MacBook Pro listed below was running Geekbench 2.1.5 on Mac OS X 10.6.3 and had at least 4GB of 1067 MHz DDR3 RAM installed.

Performance results were gathered from user submissions to the Geekbench Browser. Now people are asking how does this new lineup perform compared to the previous lineup? I've gathered some Geekbench results to find out! Setup It turns out the result was real! When Apple released the updated MacBook Pro lineup on Tuesday the lineup included a Core i7 MacBook Pro. This result generated a lot of discussion and excitement (as most Mac rumors do) people wanted to know if this result was real or not. A couple of months ago an interesting result appeared in the Geekbench Browser that appeared to be from an unreleased MacBook Pro with a Core i7 processor.

2010 macbook white core 2 duo 2.4 ghz