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    Macbook Pro Reliability

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by CanadianDude, Aug 11, 2009.

  1. CanadianDude

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    I am looking to buy one of the older models of MBP as a beater to my unibody.

    I have found two:

    one is a 2.0 ghz Core Duo and the other is a 2.16 ghz core 2 duo. THe core duo is cheaper.

    But did the C2D models undergo any internal design changes to the original CD models?

    I used to own a 2.16 ghz C2D so I can attest to their very good heat dissipation, but not sure about the CD.
     
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    C2D is supposedly 10% faster than the same speed CD , other changes like improved power saving and 64 bit as some early CD cpu`s are 32bit only.

    If you can find out exacty what processor is in the 2 notebooks you can look at the benchmark list below.

    http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php
     
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