After four years of trusty service, my 15″ G4 Powerbook was starting to show its age: the 75gb hard drive was pretty much full, the measly 512KB L2 cache and 64MB ATI video card was struggling to keep up with Leopard and iLife. Despite its outdated specs, the Powerbook was still a perfectly functional personal machine, which is one of the main reasons why I’ve put off buying a new machine for so long (if it ain’t broke, don’t replace it?) A recent bonus from work tilted the scales and so yesterday, I made a trip to the Apple store down in Union Square to bring home the new bacon.
I knew that the performance of any new machine was going to blow away the 2004 specs on my Powerbook, but I am super giddy with happiness with my new Macbook Pro.
| Tired Powerbook | Wired Macbook Pro |
| 1.5GHz PPC | 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 |
| 80GB hard drive | 200GB hard drive |
| 512KB L2 Cache | 3MB L2 Cache |
| ATI Radeon 9700, 64MB | GeForce 8600M, 256MB |
| 1280×854 max res | 1400×900 max res |
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