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4-years old MacBook Pro's logic board failed!
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<blockquote data-quote="Lifeisabeach" data-source="post: 1635380" data-attributes="member: 38864"><p>Completely understandable. Knowing the odds are 1 in 100 (or 10,000 or 100,000,000) of getting the short straw is never of consolation to the guy who actually draws it.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Oh well a non-Retina version should be even faster then if it otherwise has the same hardware because it's not pushing as many pixels. Actually there are some differences, but let's spell out some underlying specs of the current low-end MBP:</p><p></p><p>2.5 GHz i5 CPU built on the 22 nm process with Intel Graphics 4000. The RAM is DDR3 clocked at 1600 MHz. There are more details, but let's focus on these for the moment. The closest I can find on EveryMac is this MacBook Air:</p><p><a href="http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook-air/specs/macbook-air-core-i5-1.8-13-mid-2012-specs.html" target="_blank">MacBook Air "Core i5" 1.8 13" (Mid-2012) Specs (Mid-2012, MD231LL/A*, MacBookAir5,2, A1466, 2559) @ EveryMac.com</a></p><p></p><p>That has a 1.8 GHz CPU, but otherwise same class of CPU and same GPU. Here's the benchmarks for this MacBook Air:</p><p></p><p>Geekbench 2 (32): 6029 Geekbench 2 (64): 6757</p><p>Geekbench 3 (32): 2303 Geekbench 3 (32): 4598</p><p>Geekbench 3 (64): 2498 Geekbench 3 (64): 5073</p><p></p><p>That 2012 MacBook Air has easily double the performance of your existing 2010 MacBook Pro. The new low-end MacBook Pro, although it has comparable hardware, it still has a faster CPU and should have other improvements to the hardware (L3 cache, for example) that will help it outperform this still some more. So yes, the new low-end MBP is absolutely a lot better than your existing one.</p><p></p><p>There's always the alternative you haven't mentioned yet: buying a refurbished or used MacBook.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Lifeisabeach, post: 1635380, member: 38864"] Completely understandable. Knowing the odds are 1 in 100 (or 10,000 or 100,000,000) of getting the short straw is never of consolation to the guy who actually draws it. Oh well a non-Retina version should be even faster then if it otherwise has the same hardware because it's not pushing as many pixels. Actually there are some differences, but let's spell out some underlying specs of the current low-end MBP: 2.5 GHz i5 CPU built on the 22 nm process with Intel Graphics 4000. The RAM is DDR3 clocked at 1600 MHz. There are more details, but let's focus on these for the moment. The closest I can find on EveryMac is this MacBook Air: [url=http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook-air/specs/macbook-air-core-i5-1.8-13-mid-2012-specs.html]MacBook Air "Core i5" 1.8 13" (Mid-2012) Specs (Mid-2012, MD231LL/A*, MacBookAir5,2, A1466, 2559) @ EveryMac.com[/url] That has a 1.8 GHz CPU, but otherwise same class of CPU and same GPU. Here's the benchmarks for this MacBook Air: Geekbench 2 (32): 6029 Geekbench 2 (64): 6757 Geekbench 3 (32): 2303 Geekbench 3 (32): 4598 Geekbench 3 (64): 2498 Geekbench 3 (64): 5073 That 2012 MacBook Air has easily double the performance of your existing 2010 MacBook Pro. The new low-end MacBook Pro, although it has comparable hardware, it still has a faster CPU and should have other improvements to the hardware (L3 cache, for example) that will help it outperform this still some more. So yes, the new low-end MBP is absolutely a lot better than your existing one. There's always the alternative you haven't mentioned yet: buying a refurbished or used MacBook. [/QUOTE]
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