But to be honest, your older Pro is probably still fine for everyday use, and even those pre-Sandy Bridge models had excellent battery life. This is especially true if your Pro dates from before April 2010, and you have an older Intel Core 2 Duo CPU (note that the 13-inch Pro didn't even get the first-gen Core i-series until this year).
If you have an older MacBook Pro and are eager to upgrade, it's worth considering. If you were thinking of getting the higher-end, $2,199 15-inch Pro back when it was introduced in February, for example, and held off for several months, then you made a decent call go ahead and pick up essentially the same specs for $1,799 with this update. To answer the first question, if you bought a MacBook Pro this year, which means it already has the current generation of Intel Core i-series processors, there's no need to upgrade, even if you're that guy who buys the new iPhone every year, no matter what.
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Put another way, the general theme of this MacBook Pro update is that the previous higher-end base models are the new low-end models (with some minor HDD tweaks in the 13- and 17-inch Pros), and the higher-end models have in turn gotten modest CPU, and in some cases GPU, bumps ( full details here).
The specific updated model we reviewed, the entry-level $1,799 15-inch MacBook Pro configuration, performed admirably in our tests, and offered essentially the same performance as the spring 2011 15-inch Pro we reviewed-which is in itself a victory, as that earlier Pro was the higher-end $2,199 model. To best answer these, it's easiest to start by looking at exactly what's new. Some of these questions were about upgrading from the most recent Pro, others asked about pre-2011 models, and one was from a reader who was considering a MacBook Pro, but wanted to know if a further refresh was coming sometime in the next six months. While last week's MacBook Pro upgrades were mostly minor, and entirely under the hood, I felt it was worth getting my hands on one of the new systems to benchmark and compare with the models we saw earlier in 2011 ( read the full review of the fall 2011 15-inch MacBook Pro).Īlmost as soon as these system refreshes were announced, I started receiving inquiries via Twitter, e-mail, and other forms of electronic communication (sorry, no telegrams) asking if it was worth upgrading to the new MacBook Pro.
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