![]() ![]() ![]() The newly open-source Siri, for instance, has been ported over with a few notable differences from its mobile counterpart. MacOS Sierra comes decorated with a handful of improvements that rethink the way you use your MacBook Pro. The announcement was subsequently followed up by a beta released to the public on July 7, 2016. The new operating system will be supported by these systems. At WWDC 2016, Apple revealed macOS Sierra, the Siri-enhanced successor to OS X 10.11 El Capitan of yesteryear. ![]() On the other hand, if you would prefer to stick with your current MacBook Pro setup, support certainly isn't slowing down. Apple's new professional-grade laptops will come fully stocked with more powerful 6th-generation Skylake processors, USB 3.1 Gen 2 ports and potentially even TouchID. The MacBook Pro 2016 is rumored to be announced at Apple's September 7 event with a hard release shortly thereafter. Personally, if I were to buy a new MacBook Pro today, I’d get one with an i5 processor and spend the money I saved on upgrading the RAM to 8GB.Nearly a year and a half after its initial release, the MacBook Pro 13-inch with Retina display (early 2015) is finally due for an upgrade. If, however, you want the fastest MacBook Pro available then go ahead and get an i7 you are paying a premium for the performance but at least it’s not a steep premium! Granted, it’s got less drive space and less video card memory but it’s still zippy. Personally, I think the low-end i5 is more than sufficient for most tasks (it’s about 15% slower but costs 25% less). What people have been asking me, though, is whether they should get the i5 or the i7 MacBook Pro. Memory scores (especially Stream scores which measure raw memory bandwidth) are higher due to the integrated memory controller on the i5 and i7. Turbo Boost and Hyper-Threading provide a nice boost to processor scores single-threaded workloads benefit from higher processor frequencies while multi-threaded workloads benefit from extra hardware threads. This is a result of the architecture improvements in the i5 and the i7. It’s interesting to note, though, that the slowest Core i5 is faster than the fastest Core 2 Duo processor despite running at a much lower frequency (2.40GHz vs 3.06GHz). It’s no surprise the new laptops are faster. Results Overall Performance MacBook Pro (17-inch 2010) Interested in seeing how your current machine compares? Download Geekbench here and run it on your own system. Keep in mind Geekbench only measures processor and memory performance systems with the same processor but different video cards will score the same in Geekbench! Also, with Geekbench, higher scores are better. Each MacBook Pro listed below was running Geekbench 2.1.5 on Mac OS X 10.6.3 and had at least 4GB of 1067 MHz DDR3 RAM installed. Performance results were gathered from user submissions to the Geekbench Browser. Now people are asking how does this new lineup perform compared to the previous lineup? I’ve gathered some Geekbench results to find out! Setup It turns out the result was real! When Apple released the updated MacBook Pro lineup on Tuesday the lineup included a Core i7 MacBook Pro. This result generated a lot of discussion and excitement (as most Mac rumors do) people wanted to know if this result was real or not. A couple of months ago an interesting result appeared in the Geekbench Browser that appeared to be from an unreleased MacBook Pro with a Core i7 processor. ![]()
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