Go to the Mac store and find out the difference. I'm hopping on one of the 2.6 refurbs though.

*posted in off-topic too, so don't flame me* haha

Will 256mb VRAM work better or is it worth going for 512MB???

The Macbook I have now has the Intel GMA 950 with 64mb shared memory and that works fine. Most people with a MBP right now have the 256mb and don't have any problems. I don't know if it would be that much more of a performance boost with SL-V though. Where are the Graphic nerds??

256mb of vram is fine, but if you got the money, might as well get the 512mb. $500 gets you an extra 100mhz of speed, 256mb of video ram and 50gb of hard drive space. it's really not worth it since you can get a brand new dell for $500, but if you got the extra cash doing nothing, then go for it.

my imac has 128MB video and mixes videos like butter.

Just ordered a 15" 2.5Ghz with 7200rpm hard drive to suppliment my 12" Powerbook. Video-SL here I come. Now I just need to figure out how this shtuff works.

Ya i think im gonna go with the new Baseline MacBook Pro. I have the ORIGINAL Base line Macbook pro with 128Vram and 2gb.....just isnt cutting it. This new one i will use exclusively for DJing....Plus with the Educational discount, i can pick it up for 1799.....Verrry nice

woot

wow 2.4 refurbs for 1649 or 1699. now i want another one.

Damn apple and their new shit every couple of months. The iMac should be next.
Ill wait for a refurb on those pups.

Apple also lowered the prices.

Smells like a MacBook Quad.

Waiting for an iMac to drop.

Or for apple to make a desktop without a monitor but half the price or less of a mac pro. They could sweep the market if they sold $900 desktop towers without a built in screen.

i couldnt pass up the refurb.

I could not run the 2-week-old MacBook (2.0gHz) with Video-SL at a buffer of "2", had to raise it to 5 or higher to avoid USB dropouts.

The new 2.4gHz Penryn MacBook I got today in exchange for the 2-week-old model does seem to play videos reliably with the buffer on 2.

Nice of Apple to put out the new models exactly 14 days after I first bought the new MacBook (last day of the return period). They were waiving restocking fees as well.

Nice come up DJMark.

i have a 2 week old 2.0Ghz macbook pro too. Only thing was i bought it used. i got a refurb 2.4 yesterday though. now i have two. a gigable and a backupable.

seriously swift, why do you need all them damn computers??

lol, he's addicted to buying computers. the refurb is a pretty good deal tho, i got one too. i just need to upgrade the internal hd now.

talking about addiction:...I have a dell xps & dell 1200, ibook g3 , mackbook pro. I was planning to get me another mackbook pro but I have to paid a few bills..Lol

i only need two dub., a gig computer and a backup.

the dell laptops, i bought them when i didnt know that pcs sucked for doing this stuff. so i have them, not much i can do about that. i paid over $1000 for each of them (1 was $1700, 1 was around $1200, one i got free) so i'm not selling them since you can buy new ones that are faster for $500 or less. i'm not selling them for a couple hundred bucks.

but seriously, i only need two gig computers.

I must say im a little upset considering I bought a brand new 2.33ghz MBP last month, but I only paid $1,750 for it. But im not really missing out since the base model is 2.4ghz and only has 50gb more space for the hd. The video card is the same 256. I don't think I would have bought the $2,500 model, that's just too much for me, I felt sick paying the $2,000 for mine (after taxes)

i know the feeling dub, just go grind and get those video gigs. charge more and don't look back.

I'm thinking of selling my Macbook Pro (17", 2.33 dual) to get the new one, but it works SO WELL with video. The ATI graphics cards never have let me down. I can run it in OS X or Winblows XP with no problems. Plus I upgraded the ram to 3 gb and the hardrive to 320 gb (internal). hmmm...Might be a good deal for someone looking to get a great computer for cheap.

See mine runs great as long as I have the quality in the middle, it even works at 75% but when I put quality all the way up I start to get stutters. I would love to be able to rock that all the way up, but then im thinking last month the fastest ones were only 2.4ghz, when they made this program did they really make it so you can go all the way up on quality?? Is anyone doing that? and if so how fast is your computer??

Also im only doing videos on wednesdays at my resident spot and im not charging anymore since it was basically my idea to start doing videos for my own enjoyment so I haven't "officially" booked a video gig yet and my MBP runs regular serato perfectly.

I don't get it...if what you have works so perfectly, what would be the reason to sell it?

Your post reads like a not-all-that-subtle "for sale" ad.

i dont get it either charlie, you have a laptop that works awesome? why would you want to sell it?

Noooo....

Well I would bet that the new ones run a little BETTER, thats why. I do alot more than DJ with my computer. Graphics, Video Editing, Flash, ect... More power is always better when using 'power' applications. I didn't say perfectly, I said SO WELL. I've been doing video for 8 months, 3 days a week with it and have had very minimal problems but I'm an electronics horror (is that how you spell that?) so I would love to blow another $3,500 on a new computer. Damn Apple, always draining my pockets.

I know. I have a prob with electronics like my girlfriend has with shoes. I need every new piece of electronics the day it comes out. I mean I'm typing this on my wireless keyboard viewing it on my 80" projector watching TV on my 50" plasma in my bedroom. A new Macbook Pro is just to tempting for me.

I believe it's WHORE, lol.
Charlie, When are you gonna fly me over to rock the hell out of Chicago? :)

F**k graduated on the deans list and couldn't think how to spell WHORE...$80,000 education. To lazy for google. All this converting has made me crazy.

Soon friend. The new club is opening in like 2 weeks. Its going to be called HEAT. Its quite the venue. Its in the F'in suburbs though but the crowd is still ok. It used to be called bamboo room. Check the current webby for pictures (its in the process of getting updated). www.bambooroomschaumburg.com, click on photo tour for an idea of the club. Twiz PM me with your email. I know we chatted on myspace a few times but I never check or update my page anymore.

Maybe you need a Mac Pro for home use then. That would give you way more CPU horsepower than you can get with any MacBook Pro.

Dean's list up.

Im an electronics whore too. That's why i have 3 mac laptops and they all are intel cpu's.

Now, im searching for an iMac.

he had it right the first time. I'm an electronics horror.

little dissapointed on the processors... i was hoping for a bigger one to drop, but instead they just have the 2.5 and 2.6 question is, is the extra .1ghz worth the $250?

It's not the processor speed that's important it's the L2 cache

... and sse4 instruction set. serato could optimize their code to run better thru sse4 and will have better performance

Think im getting the old 2.4 today....my school has them priced at 1500....thats a grand off!!!!

struggled with that one...went cheap...which is funny considering the larger picture. lol

So is there more of a difference between the 2.5 and the 2.6 than just the ghz, is the 2.6 the sse4? bigger l2 cache? i didnt see it specified on there, and havent really dug around on it yet.

The 2.4GHz has 3MB L2 cache the 2.5 and the 2.6 have 6MB all the new processors will support SSE4.

I'm pissed. I just coped a MPB 2 months ago. F@#%!

there's also the 256mb to 512mb gfx card bump

they should really list that stuff....

multitouch pad

I read everything on the apple store website and the only difference I found between the 2.5 & the 2.6 was the processor. I may have missed something, but I don't think so.

the 2.6 has a 512mb graphics card, a larger cache, and the sse4 support. Once again, those are the differences.

ya I picked up the top of the line 15" yesterday (last generation) new for $1,500...$1,000 off......

I don't see anywhere in the information online that these specs are different between the 2.5 & 2.6. If thats the case, I'd get the 2.6 instead. Where did you find that?

www.apple.com

Do you guys think there is going to be such a difference to justify the extra $500 for the 15 inch. I'm getting ready to purchase one soon and I was just going to get the base version. I'm going to get into video but I haven't tried it just yet.