i5 macbook 4gb of ram

eurotrotter

hi guys

just wondering if any of ye are out this spec are happy with it?

i bought it with this spec and was not happy with it.

I guess its important to show where you came from, since expectation levels are always strongly dependant on where u came from, my former machine was a 2007 whit macbook with 4gb of ram running the Lion

i am just a little dissappointed in my new macbook, i was over the moon with my white macbook, and it still outperforms my new macbook pro.

just wondering if anyone out there is feeling the same way?

ZENER

On paper the new MBP should run rings around the White MB. What aspects are you disappointed with ?

I know the C2D Macbooks were a nippy enough machine, I've seen one running Quartz Composer videos through a projector along with several audio synths in Reason which were then run through Rax at a gig and still have enough horsepower to record the gig via mixing console !! It would be nearing the 100% CPU usage at this stage with 4GB. Anyone who knows this software will know it's heavy on CPU so quite an impressive feat.

The same guy who did the above now has an i7 MBP with 8GB and runs all the above with just 30% CPU across it's 4 cores. You can only really tell in real world situations how much more powerful your machine is I think.

If I was to buy a new MBP it would definitely be an i7 model though. Twice the cores and 4 times the threads !

Ken

opinion guy

OP if its slow consider investing in an SSD.

I put one in my old 2009 coreduo MBP and it made it lightning fast for everday tasks

acous

I'd second the SSD idea. New CPUs are way faster than old ones. New hard drives are only marginally faster though, so they end up being the bottleneck.