Is there any reason to be excited about the new CPUs? I'd say that the high-res display on 15" and better battery life are more interesting.
Also, any info if the graphic cards switch automagically or you have to log out?
Also, any info if the graphic cards switch automagically or you have to log out?
Unfortunately, it's the i5 that has crypto acceleration. The i7 does about 80MB/s/core, and the i5 does something like 2000MB/s. But is slower otherwise.
Fucking Intel....
On the media apps, the i5 beats the equivalently clocked i7 on most of the benches. On the productivity section, the i5 is equal to the i7 on 2 of the 5, and beaten by 10-20% on the others (those that seem to feed heavily on the hyperthreading and extra cache of the i7). Notably, though, the i5 and i7 are a wash in the Photoshop test (a key benchmark for the sort of things I do).
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/clarkdale-aes-ni-encrypt...
Core i5 2.53GHz: http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=43544 Core i7 2.66GHz: http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=43560
I think the only real difference is clock speed and that the i7 has an extra megabyte of cache.
www.apple.com/macbookpro/performance.html