“I bought a new MacBook. I couldn’t help it. Three days spent in and out of the press room at the MWC in Barcelona meant three days of seeing the tiny 13” package over and over (these unibody MacBooks seem to be popular). Worse, I was seeing the svelte new carcass alongside my old-model MacBook Pro,” Charlie Sorrel reports for Wired.
“It’s a truism of Apple design that every product looks amazing until the next revision is unveiled. Then, what looked great yesterday suddenly looks old and tired. So I did it. I bought a new laptop to replace one barely eight months old,” Sorrel reports.
“What follows is a comparison of the two in use… First, a few numbers. The old Pro is a 2.4GHz machine with the Santa Rosa chipset. It is loaded with 4GB RAM but is otherwise completely stock. The new, young whippersnapper is also 2.4GHz and is running on just 2GB RAM until four gigs on order from Crucial turns up,” Sorrel reports.
Find out how the new consumer MacBook stacks up against the old Pro, and why you might think twice about buying one if you are a photographer (go for the new Pro), in the full article here.
