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Just put 8Gb Ram and a 256GB ssd in my 17", so this one will have to wait for a while! To be honest, it's quick enough anyway.I want one trying to find money. I want quad core.
My existing MBP is just over a year old. I usually try and run them at least 2 or even 3 before upgrading, so I'm a ways off. Guy always is the first to move on anything new that promises to be faster, so suspect he'll have one of the first. A year from now we'll have 4x2.66 or 4x2.8 i7's that will be even faster, and by then the whole thunderbolt I/O will be more common-place...Guy, Jack are your orders in yet? LOL Who will be the first to report on these beauties. David
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And what happened to the 1680x1050 15"? Seems the 15" only comes with 1440x900. I have the hi-res anti-glare and the extra resolution makes a big difference.
David
It appears they are 6gb, so I assume a device as you mentioned would be supported. Here's the spec from system profiler on my new one that arrived todayAnyone know if these new MBP use SATA 3 with 6GB/s vs. the current 3GB/s? The new crop of SSDs based on the SandForce 2500 controller like the Vertex 3 Pro are much faster than current SATA buses can support. Instead of Thunderbolt, I'd rather have an internal SSD that can read/write 500MB/s.
i look forward to your updates, Wayne (and anybody else's)!I'll get a better feel for Photoshop, LR, and C1 tomorrow when I put it through some tests, but I'd be surprised not to see a noticeable improvement. Photoshop actually scales pretty good up to 4 cores then falls off pretty fast, so the two extra cores should help despite the slower clock speed.
No, not really. This was discussed heavily on the macrumors forum. Real world testing seems to show that it is limited to 3Gb/s even though it is SATA 3, however it seems to be a software/firmware issue. In theory your should be able to get 6Gb/s from the main drive (SATA port 0) and probably 3Gb/s from the optical drive bay (SATA port 1). SATA plugs 2-5 are disabled. There is also some speculation that the early machines are using the defective SATA controllers, but that they are not an issue since the MBP doesn't use ports 2-5.Anyone know if these new MBP use SATA 3 with 6GB/s vs. the current 3GB/s? The new crop of SSDs based on the SandForce 2500 controller like the Vertex 3 Pro are much faster than current SATA buses can support. Instead of Thunderbolt, I'd rather have an internal SSD that can read/write 500MB/s.
David