New MacBook Pro 17″
August 10th, 2009
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Yes I changed my old 15″ MacBook Pro (early 2008 2×2.4Ghz/4GB/500GB/256MB VRAM) by a brand new 17″ unibody (2×2.8Ghz/4GB/500GB/512MB VRAM) that is 20% to 30% faster, mainly due to magic of DDR3 bandwidth!
Naturally I choose the 17″ for three reasons:
- The screen displays 1.8X more informations
- The 17″ is the only one to keep a ExpressCard slot
- It’s just 10% more expensive than the 15″ equivalent, and I may get ride of my 24″ monitor
In fact my MacBook Pro 17″ is faster than the original Mac Pro for many tasks including CS3, according to macWorld SpeedMark 5! It’s impressive to have it’s power on it’s lap 
Sadly, the 2×4GB DDR3-1066 memory kit are not just expensive, they are sold at the price of gold! less than 130$ for 2×2GB DDR3-1066 and instead around 260$ for 2×4GB DDR3-1066 it’s over $800!
I want to run Windows in VM with 4GB to spare, or be able to launch 3 or 4 real linux servers! Pleeassseeeee