Apple's 13-inch MacBook Pro (Early 2010) Reviewed: Shaking the CPU/GPU Balance
by Anand Lal Shimpi on June 9, 2010 12:15 AM EST- Posted in
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TRIM Support On the Way?
Several readers wrote me once they received their new 13-inch MacBook Pros and told me that System Profiler lists TRIM support as an option for SSDs on these systems. I confirmed:
This appears to be limited to the new 13-inch MacBook Pro. I tried my 2nd gen unibody 15-inch as well as the new 15-inch i5/i7 model and neither of them have TRIM listed as an option with an SSD installed. It appears that the driver for the GeForce 320M chipset in the new 13-inch MBP supports TRIM at some level.
The OS still incorrectly identifies SSDs with TRIM support as not supporting the instruction, but I get the feeling we're close to having TRIM support in OS X. At which point we'll be even closer to Apple shipping some halfway decent SSDs in their systems. It's taken this long but we're getting there.
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damianrobertjones - Wednesday, June 9, 2010 - link
I noticed a real world article with regards to battery life and for the life of me cannot recall the link.Anyhow, the guy grabbed six laptops of various battery life etc and simply played a dvd.
The macbook (Not sure which he used) lasted around 5.5 hours continuous play... the same as the other laptops.
Baffled??
damianrobertjones - Wednesday, June 9, 2010 - link
P.s. I also think that this article gives me nothing that hasn't been said before and wonder why it's been written?BlendMe - Wednesday, June 9, 2010 - link
AT readers have been asking for a review of the new 13" and the 320M, so he delivered.tim851 - Wednesday, June 9, 2010 - link
Seriously, am I getting so old that I am the only one who thinks 1280x800 is sufficient for a 13.3" screen?Ninjahedge - Wednesday, June 9, 2010 - link
Yes./me hands tim a pair of bifocals.
Dennis Travis - Wednesday, June 9, 2010 - link
Do you have a pair for me also? :DNinjahedge - Thursday, June 10, 2010 - link
/me snaps bifocals at bridge.Bifocal Monocles for both!!!!!!!
FATCamaro - Thursday, June 10, 2010 - link
hahahaha. nicerfadream - Wednesday, June 9, 2010 - link
Hey Anand are you sure those temps you measured are in Fahrenheit and not Celsius?jabber - Wednesday, June 9, 2010 - link
Its amazing the type of quality product you can get from using just slave labour to make it.Well done.