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MacBook Pro i7 vs iMac i7
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I know that someone knows the difference here, but what is the difference between these two chips? I am pretty sure they are not using the same one. I have always been confused by the naming conventions that intel uses. I thought when they went away from ghz, that would solve everything. I think that my iMac has an i7 960...
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Same name, same core architecture, totally different chips.
The iMac's i7 has 4 cores built on a 45nm process on the chip.
The MBP's i7 has 2 cores built on a 32nm process and integrated graphics on the chip.
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Thank you. I am interested to see what the speed comparisons are side by side.
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Blow-out in well threaded apps. Close for single threaded apps.
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Your iMac has Core i7-860. If you want to see performance comparisons, try some PC performance sites like Anandtech or wait until barefeats gets some tests in. The mobile Core i7-600 series is roughly equivalent to the Core i5-600 series on the desktop, except the desktop models are clocked higher.
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The new Mac Pro has up to 30 MB of cache inside the processor itself. That's more than the HD in my first Mac. Somehow I'm still running out of space.
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Originally Posted by mduell 
Blow-out in well threaded apps. Close for single threaded apps.
Thanks, my geeky side continues to open tons of apps, just because and also to geekbench, just for the score 
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Originally Posted by P
Your iMac has Core i7-860. If you want to see performance comparisons, try some PC performance sites like Anandtech or wait until barefeats gets some tests in. The mobile Core i7-600 series is roughly equivalent to the Core i5-600 series on the desktop, except the desktop models are clocked higher.
I did check the number after I wrote that. I did have the model number wrong of course. I have been checking around to see the scores. Nothing concrete yet other than the "New MacBooks Pro's are really fast."
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Now here comes the interesting question. I wonder what the speed comparison is of a current MacBook Pro 17 i7 with a standard HDD vs my current MBP 15 C2D 2.53 with an upgrade to a SSD? hmm...
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Depends what you're doing, of course.
CPU intensive? i7
Disk intensive? SSD
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Originally Posted by mduell
Depends what you're doing, of course.
CPU intensive? i7
Disk intensive? SSD
Probably a mix of both, I keep hearing good things about the right ssd drive and laptops.
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