To really bust on the processor more specifically we fired up some Flash video, pitting our new Core i7 Pro against an "old" MacBook Pro with a 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo processor and 4GB of RAM.

The 15" MacBook Pro is available in three variations, with 2.4GHz or 2.53GHz Core i5 processors or a 2.66GHz Core i7 processor. A 320GB or 500GB 5400RPM hard drive is standard, as is 4GB of DDR3 RAM.

Looking at the outside of the computer, it is very easy to think that the new 15-inch MacBook Pro with Core i7 processor is unchanged from last year's model. However, there are a surprising amount ...

While the new 15- and 17-inch MacBook Pros each kick off with Core i5 processors, our review unit has the 2.66GHz Core i7 with 4MB of shared L3 cache; 4GB of DDR3 is standard (8GB an option) as is ...

The MacBook Air is again available with an i7 processor. We've benchmarked the base 2020 MacBook Air with i3 processor, and the high-end quad-core i7 MacBook Air to see how much of a performance ...

The 17-inch 2.2 Core i7 MacBook Pro also showed an impressive improvement, lasting 48 minutes longer than the 4 hours, 51 minutes posted by the old 17-inch 2.53GHz Core i7 MacBook Pro.

In benchmark tests, the Core i7 CPU in Apple's latest 17-inch Macbook Pro showed that it's capable of hitting a whopping 100°C/212°F.

At 19:54 vs. 32:19, the Core i7 MacBook pro—even though it’s 2.66GHz vs. 2.8GHz—is just about 50% faster. So there ya go, the Core i7 CPUs make a pretty damn big difference in performance.

In 2012, I bought the most powerful model of the 15-inch MacBook Pro because I knew its Core i7 processor would keep up for several more years than a MacBook Pro with a less powerful Core i5 ...

On the Apple side, I turned to a $2,400 MacBook Pro 15 with a quad-core Core i7-6700HQ, 16GB of LPDDR/2133, and a 256GB SSD. I also had partial access to two MacBook Pro 13’s.

We are about to order a second batch of Macbooks and already have two mid 2017 m5 16gb models hooked up to 4k monitors here. Those have fared well for our requirements (office-stuff, some ...