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Putting aside the ports discussion, the stagnant performance of the Macbook Pro is just kind of where the market's at - Apple uses Intel chips and Intel slammed
by JohnBooty 10y ago
Putting aside the ports discussion, the stagnant performance of the Macbook Pro is just kind of where the market's at - Apple uses Intel chips and Intel slammed up against Moore's Law quite a few years ago. Looking at current ThinkPad offerings, it looks like I can get a $4,000 7.5-pound luggable with a mobile Xeon CPU (Thinkpad P70) but I'm not sure how much extra performance that buys me.
The lack of 32GB options on Macbook Pros is definitely frustrating, though.
- hellofunk 10y agoYou are only looking at CPU, though. What about memory, and why does Apple not care about a "Pro" having more than 16GB RAM?
- denzil_correa 10y agoApparently, the lack of a higher capacity RAM was due to the performance/energy ratio. https://twitter.com/DanFrakes/status/791754757404626944 https://twitter.com/DanFrakes/status/791754757404626944
- FireBeyond 10y agoThat's a pretty cherry-picked comparison. "Ultra expensive, ultra heavy". Or you could get a Dell Precision 7510, 6.2lb (versus 5.5lb), Xeon CPU... for $2300.