New Macbook vs. Old Macbook benchmarks in OS X?

Did anyone find some OS X benchmarks yet, comparing the new Macbook with the old models?

For those who did not see it yet, here are the Windows benchmarks by PCMag:
http://www.pcmag.com/image_popup/0,1871,iid=219447,00.asp

 

Nice link thanks.phil!

 

those look really good!and i think that with l2g drivers and some optimization it will be even better

 

Did anyone find some OS X benchmarks?

 

Here are some CPU benches: http://www.primatelabs.ca/blog/2008/10/macbook-and-macbook-pro-performance-october-2008/

 

Very interesting link. Thanks.

 

so Phil,are you going to buy one?

 

Not sure yet. I saw it today for the first time. Quite nice but not as special as I expected. Screen quality was good though (viewing angles are not important to me). I might get one in two weeks.

What about you?

 

If you let me know some OS X benchmarks, I can run them for you. I don't know any since this is my first Mac.

I actually need some benchmarks for the review I'm writing for this site, so I could really use some suggestions.

 

Ok, really quickly, I ran Xbench on my Macbook. With the disk test on, I got about 127.

However, with it turned off, the score shot up to 169.41. The hard drive random access times were not so good through the first run, but much better the second time. They still forced the average of the first run down quite a bit.

 

I personally like real life benchmarks like booting, zipping, copying files, launching applications and opening documents.

Laptopmag are very good at benchmarking in my opinion:

http://www.laptopmag.com/review/storage/intel-x25-m.aspx?page=4

 

Well, to be honest, the laptop feels a bit sluggish sometimes in normal usage. Applications take longer to open than I'm used to on my Vista PC. Also, I have the dock set to auto-hide, and it takes it a second to pop up when I move my mouse to the bottom of the screen. Then it feels like the magnification effect is chugging. On top of that, going to full screen with movies takes a couple seconds, and I've noticed several flash videos dropping frames.

I'm thinking I may just have to wait a few days for the system to cache everything into memory like Vista does. I'll let you know in a few days.

 

Ha i am not the only one experiencing this ...

 

Why don't you cry a little bit more.

 

Wow that sounds bad. Yes please let us know if it gets better. I do not like waiting.

What harddrive do you have on your Vista PC?

 

The new macbook did rather poorly in the cpu-intenive tests considering its a 2.4GHz.

 

Any more new MB owners that can share their experience on the perceived sluggishness by Paul and tyronne?

 

Don't those PC Mag results indicate that the older Penryn Macbook performed significantly better than the new Aluminum Macbook in all non-gpu focused applications?

 

I wouldn't say significantly better, but definitely better. The reason behind this is believed to be the nVidia chipset, which is not as good with Intel CPUs as Intel's chipsets found on previous Intel Macbooks. However, the nVidia chipsets does allow for much better graphics. So, it's a trade off.

 

Some Windows Vista WEI benchmarks for new MB 2.4 here:
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=584510

Good scores.

 

Gyah, I don't know whether to buy the new 2.0 MB, or go for the old 2.4 MBP. They are the same price now, just have to decide if I want size or screen res/8600GT.

 

Just a quick update. The MacBook is definitely performing much better after a few days of settling. I'm not surprised, considering Vista is the same way. It appears that caching played a big part early on, as my memory usage has gone from over 1GB on idle to 900MB with about five programs open.

Applications are opening much more quickly (though still not quite as quickly as my Vista PC due to the 5400rpm drive), the dock is much smoother, and going to fullscreen is much better. Fullscreen is still a little weird in iTunes, but I blame this on the program as VLC and Quicktime are perfectly fine.

Either way, performance has noticeably improved after a few days usage. As I said, I'm not surprised, as Vista is the same way. And to answer the original question as to the hard drive in my Vista PC, it's a Seagate 100GB 7200rpm drive, so it is quicker than the 5400rpm Fujitsu in the MacBook.

 

Thanks for the update Paul. will you be upgrading to 7200rpm?

 

I think it might be the 4GB DDR3 RAM but my Macbook is lightning fast, no slowdowns, no time for even HD access and everything just sits in memory. Only had it for a day and it's been super snappy since day 1. Glad OSX can use all 4GB and not just 3GB like Vista 32.

Interesting you mentioned your HD is a Fujitsu, the 2.4ghz I have has a Toshiba HD.