The news no one at Apple wants to hear? The new entry level MacBook might be slower than the old one. According to Primate Labs Blog, that might be true. The low power Penryn, was more or less forced on Apple by Intel but does offer significant benefits in terms of power consumption and heat dispacement.
The real culprit, according to the blog (and common sense) is the lowering of the level 2 cache on the entry level Penryn processors from 4mb to 3mb. While the higher end processor also got 1Mb of level 2 cache lopped off, the processor speed makes up the difference.:
Despite having a slightly faster processor, the smaller L2 cache of
