If it’s the youngest and most loved sibling in the MacBook family you’re interested in, you’ll be glad to know that Macworld has taken these new Penryn-powered beauties for a test ride and has now published the benchmark results.
As with the newly released MacBook Pros, these MacBooks also enjoy a performance boost, thanks to Intel’s latest processors and more onboard memory. The upgraded notebooks now ship with 2.1GHz and 2.4GHz processors and, compared to the previous generation, are about 10-15% faster in various tests.
The mothership also notes that apart from the obvious advantage the MacBook Pros enjoy in graphics intensive tasks due to the significantly more capable dedicated graphics card, the higher-end MacBook comes pretty close to the lowest configured MacBook Pro in terms of overall performance.
So if you don’t intend to run demanding games or other applications that require a dedicated graphics card and are willing to compromise on the screen size, you might find the MacBook to be a better fit for you, while being lighter on your wallet.
A full-fledged review for both the MacBooks and MacBook Pros will be published soon, along with the results of some hardcore battery life testing of all the upgraded notebooks. We’re told that the ones that survive this test are then fully prepared to face all the challenges life throws at them.
