Macbook Pro Core i5 and Color

Hi
I've never used Color on a Macbook Pro, only on a Mac Pro
Anyone out there running Color on the new Core i5 Macbook Pros? How does it run? Is there an improvement over the previous generation?
I'm not after stats/benchmarks, I want real world feedback from users please.
Thanks

gtds wrote:
I'm not after stats/benchmarks, I want real world feedback from users please.
Hi g,
If you want feedback from the people who use that model of MBP, you'd do far better posting in the forum for those machines, MBP 2009 and later (this area is for the Original MBP). Good luck.

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