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Totally depends on what you do: I have a 2.6ghz 2010 MBP with an Intel SSD that has been the screamer at our office for quite a while now. My office mate just g
by jpitz 16y ago
Totally depends on what you do:
I have a 2.6ghz 2010 MBP with an Intel SSD that has been the screamer at our office for quite a while now.
My office mate just got a 2011, and even though he has yet to get an SSD in it yet, he runs our integration test suite ( java JUnit stuff, heavy mix of cpu and disk io ) in half the time I can ( thats 7 minutes vs 14 ), and where my cpus stay at 75-90% the whole time, his never breaks 15. Now, on the compile target that I run 10-20 times a day, my machine is still a second or two faster, but I suspect that advantage will evaporate once he has that SSD.
- nikster 16y agoIn my own tests compiling and building code I found that the OS X disk cache is very efficient and so the SSD advantage disappears after the first run. Still the best bang for the buck upgrade by far but for the purpose of compiling much less difference than I had expected.
- jpitz 16y agoI'll have to get him to run successive compiles and see. The other advantage of this model is that it is upgradable to 16GB RAM, according to OWC and others [1]. The upgrade is a ridiculous cost right now, but it can likely only go down. 1. http://blog.macsales.com/9394-macbook-pro-2011-12gb-and-16gb-memory-upgrades-benchmarked http://blog.macsales.com/9394-macbook-pro-2011-12gb-and-16gb...