Benchmarking results: Is Snow Leopard really any faster than Leopard?

September 2 2009, 2:00pm

Filed under: OS, TUAW Labs, Snow LeopardOne of the biggest features of Snow Leopard isn't something apparent to the naked eye: software tweaks and refinements intended to make OS X a leaner, meaner OS for your fighting Apple machine. But is Snow Leopard really any faster? Now that I've successfully upgraded two Macs to Snow Leopard I've got some benchmarking results to share. My Early 2008 MacBook Pro shipped with OS X Leopard 10.5.2 installed. I ran Geekbench on the stock OS X installation after upgrading the RAM to 4 GB to get a baseline for comparison of future performance. 18 months later I ran the same test immediately after updating to 10.6. Both tests were performed with Geekbench testing in 32-bit mode immediately after a restart, with no other programs open except the Finder, nothing loaded in Dashboard, and no Time Machine backup running. Machine specs: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.60 GHz w/ 4GB RAM Average Overall Geekbench score for this model of MacBook Pro: 3304 Read on for the scores.Continue reading Benchmarking results: Is Snow Leopard really any faster than Leopard?TUAWBenchmarking results: Is Snow Leopard really any faster than Leopard? originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 02 Sep 2009 09:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments

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