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This is a questionable review, bordering on dishonest. It makes no mention that the new machines provide almost no performance improvement over last year's mod

by akamaka 10y ago

This is a questionable review, bordering on dishonest. It makes no mention that the new machines provide almost no performance improvement over last year's models, despite the significant price hike: http://www.digitaltrends.com/apple/apples-newest-macbook-pro-slightly-faster-previous-models/ http://www.digitaltrends.com/apple/apples-newest-macbook-pro... Edit: If the folks downvoting me would like to dispute the benchmarks, please feel free to contribute some new data to the conversation.

kayoone 10y ago
SSD and GPU are quite a bit faster, the CPU isn't, but it got more power efficient and is more of an Intel problem at the moment as they are focusing on that.
- akamaka 10y ago
  There are already PC laptops shipping with a newer generation chip 15W chip than the one in the low end Macbook Pro, so I consider this more of an Apple problem.
grzm 10y ago
I get the impression from the review that the reviewer is reporting his experience with using the MacBook under real-world conditions. He's not performing benchmarks. Whether or not there's a performance improvement wouldn't really need to be included in that, would it? Indeed, he specifically mentions that he didn't have the opportunity to perform speed tests: "Being on the road, I haven’t been able to do methodical speed or battery tests, but I can say that the battery life on this laptop seems to be a lot more than on the MacBook Air. It also handled some more intense work—editing multi-track audio in Logic Pro and removing noise from audio with iZotope RX 5—with aplomb. Some of that may be the result of the faster SSD in this model, but some of it is at least the responsibility of the processor." Do you get the impression that he's trying to hide something? Do you have other criticisms besides this point?
- akamaka 10y ago
  It's hard to tell if he's ignorant or deceptive, but he claims some of the speed-up is from the processor. Real benchmarks show otherwise. It certainly feels like he's trying to promote the product rather than give an objective review. It's fine for him to have his opinion, but I just want to point out that this is not a trustworthy review.

by akamaka 10y ago

kayoone 10y ago

SSD and GPU are quite a bit faster, the CPU isn't, but it got more power efficient and is more of an Intel problem at the moment as they are focusing on that.

akamaka 10y ago
There are already PC laptops shipping with a newer generation chip 15W chip than the one in the low end Macbook Pro, so I consider this more of an Apple problem.

grzm 10y ago

I get the impression from the review that the reviewer is reporting his experience with using the MacBook under real-world conditions. He's not performing benchmarks. Whether or not there's a performance improvement wouldn't really need to be included in that, would it? Indeed, he specifically mentions that he didn't have the opportunity to perform speed tests: "Being on the road, I haven’t been able to do methodical speed or battery tests, but I can say that the battery life on this laptop seems to be a lot more than on the MacBook Air. It also handled some more intense work—editing multi-track audio in Logic Pro and removing noise from audio with iZotope RX 5—with aplomb. Some of that may be the result of the faster SSD in this model, but some of it is at least the responsibility of the processor." Do you get the impression that he's trying to hide something? Do you have other criticisms besides this point?

akamaka 10y ago
It's hard to tell if he's ignorant or deceptive, but he claims some of the speed-up is from the processor. Real benchmarks show otherwise. It certainly feels like he's trying to promote the product rather than give an objective review. It's fine for him to have his opinion, but I just want to point out that this is not a trustworthy review.