We opened a 500-page Word document in Pages ’09.-Macworld Lab testing by James Galbraith, Chris Holt, Lynn La, and Meghann Myers We used HandBrake to rip a DVD chapter to the hard drive. We ran WorldBench 6 multitasking test on a Parallels VM. We converted 90 minutes of AAC audio files to MP3 using iTunes’ High Quality setting.
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In iMovie, we imported a camera archive and exported it to iTunes for Mobile Devices setting. We used Compressor to encode a MOV file to the application’s H.264 for video podcast setting.We timed the import and thumbnail/preview creation time for 150 photos. We recorded how long it took to render a scene with mulitprocessors in CinemaBench. Photoshop’s memory was set to 70 percent and History was set to Minimum. The Photoshop Suite test is a set of 14 scripted tasks using a 50MB file. All systems were tested with 10.6.3 and 4GB RAM. All others are in minutes:seconds (lower is better, except for Battery Life, where higher is better). Speedmark and MathematicaMark are performance scores (higher scores are better).
Call of Duty score is in frames per second (higher is better). The 15-inch MacBook Pro’s discreet graphics was able to display nearly twice the number of frames per second as the new MacBook with only integrated graphics.īest results in bold.
The Core i5 MacBook Pro, with its Hyper-Threading and Turbo Boost technologies, was 32 percent faster than the MacBook in the Cinebench CPU test, 45 percent faster in MathematicaMark and 34 percent faster in our Aperture test. Looking at the performance differences between the MacBook and the low-end 15-inch MacBook Pro ( ), a $1799 model with 4GB of RAM, both integrated and discreet graphics, and a 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 processor, we see a much bigger gap-24 percent overall, according to Speedmark 6 results. So why go Pro? There are a couple of advantages to the MacBook Pro, namely FireWire 800 and an SD card slot. I ran Speedmark on the 2.26GHz MacBook with 4GB of RAM for our recent review of the 13-inch MacBook Pros and found only a 2-point increase in Speedmark scores with the additional memory. And though the $1199 MacBook Pro, with 4GB of RAM, includes twice the memory of the MacBook, our Speedmark tests (run one at a time) show very little benefit from the additional RAM. With the same hard drives, processors, and integrated graphics, this should come as little surprise. Interestingly, some of the hard drive tests (file duplication and unzipping a 2GB file) were a couple of seconds faster on the older model.Ĭomparing the new $999 MacBook to the entry-level $1199 13-inch 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro ( ), we see identical Speedmark scores. The new system was also faster in our Photoshop and iTunes tests, but only by a few seconds. The new MacBook’s faster processor also helped it post a 10 percent faster Cinebench CPU score. We found that the new MacBook, with a Speedmark 6 score of 118, was seven percent faster than the 2.26GHz MacBook it replaces.īy far, the biggest gain was in our 3D game tests, in which the new MacBook, with its Nvidia GeForce 320M graphics, was able to display 66 percent more frames per second than the older model with its Nvidia GeForce 9400M graphics. To find out how much these enhancements affect performance, we ran the new MacBook through our Speedmark 6 suite of overall system tests.
Macworld Lab testing by James Galbraith, Chris Holt, Chris Holt, Lynn La, and Meghann Myers. Blue bars in italics represent reference systems. The included warranty and AppleCare won’t cover a MacBook with 8GB of RAM.
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It’s possible to install 8GB of RAM in a MacBook and it would probably work just fine, but if something goes wrong, you’d be on your own. In case you are wondering, the entire MacBook Pro line ships with 4GB of RAM standard, with a maximum configuration of 8GB. Like the older system, the new MacBook ships standard with 2GB of RAM, and Apple says that 4GB is the recommended maximum RAM configuration.
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