Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

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M_V in reply to @aggi

once you start looking at ones with similar designs to the Mac (slim, metal case, etc)

See, I use it quite a bit every day so I'd rather be using something that feels and looks nice and I am willing to pay a (certain amout of) premium for that.

I tried using cpuboss to compare the performance of the processors but pple seem to be quite vague about what the processor actually is.

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JonD in reply to @M_V

See here http://browser.primatelabs.com/mac-benchmarks

Your 2008 iMac gets 1654 single core and 2976 multi core (32 bit)
The 2016 15" MacBook Pro (2.5) gets 3180 and 11959 on the same tests.

The new chips are way faster. The ghz numbers mean nothing when comparing between different chip generations. This link may be useful for explaining i5 vs i7 etc. http://www.trustedreviews.com/opinions/best-intel-processor-core-i3-i5-i7

My main thought would be decide if you need a laptop or not first. You get way more performance for your money if you don't need portability.

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M_V in reply to @JonD

Cheers for that link.

Aye I guess deciding if I need the portability is the big decision to be made.

Would the mbp having a flash drive and the iMac a standard hard drive (unless I fork out for the upgrade) sort of cancel out the difference in processor speed?

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