MacBook performance boost

When might Apple release new MacBooks (not Pro) with the Santa Rosa chip? I've been dying to know for months!! O.o

sam said, "Okay, if two books with the same specs test differently, it means there is something wrong with your test."

• No it doesn't. There can be variances in hardware manufacturing or software configurations. But the black and white 2.0GHz MacBooks DO NOT HAVE all the same components.



Jon said, "Am I the only one on the internets who notced the 8x Dual-Layer SuperDrive???"

• No. This was one thing some people complained about as the 15" MacBook Pro has only a 6x speed SuperDrive. This screams new MacBook Pros at WWDC next month.

Am I the only one on the internets who notced the 8x Dual-Layer SuperDrive???

Okay, if two books with the same specs test differently, it means there is something wrong with your test. Black is not a faster color than white. Black and white aren't even colors, come to think of it.

• ≥ 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo chips have a 4MB L2 cache, ≤ 1.83GHz C2D chips have a 2MB L2 cache.

• Previous test results of the black and white MacBooks of equal processor and RAM configuration showed a slightly higher performance from the white model. This discrepancy is due to the black MacBook having a larger HDD.

Newsflash 2.16ghz is faster than 2.0ghz. Thanks for staying on top of the hard news, TUAW.

The older Core 2 MacBooks only had 2MB of L2 cache on the low end (1.83 GHz) model. The 2.0 GHz models always had 4MB of L2 cache...

How can it be an increase, I bought my core 2 macbook in december last year and it has 4mb of level 2 cache

About time. The cache increase will be nice as well as any sort of improvement Apple can make for the Mercedes of their laptop line.

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