New mbp early 2009

does someone have a compare test between the mbp late '08 and early '09

Hi, yoyoskk. Anything we can find, you can find just as easily yourself. Google is your friend.
I just checked the GeekBench results chart:
http://www.primatelabs.ca/blog/2009/01/
(Scroll about 1/4 of the way down the page to the beginning of the Mac results.)
The new version of GeekBench that is compatible with the Early 2009 17" MBPs was just posted today, so there have been no results submitted yet for that model. But watch that page over the next couple of weeks and see what appears. Note that GeekBench only benchmarks CPU and RAM, not graphics performance.

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