The minor speed boost, without a similar boost in price, can only be good news. Macworld’s buying adviceĮxcept for a minor boost in processor speed, the new 15-inch 2.66GHz MacBook Pro is identical to the 15-inch 2.53GHz MacBook Pro it replaces. To compare Speedmark 5 scores for various Mac systems, visit our Mac Hardware Guide.-Macworld Lab testing by James Galbraith, Chris Holt, and Helen Williamson. We duplicated a 1GB folder, created a Zip archive in the Finder from the two 1GB files and then Unzipped it. We used Quake’s average-frames-per-second score we tested at a resolution of 1,024 by 768 pixels at the Maximum setting with both audio and graphics enabled. We converted 45 minutes of AAC audio files to MP3 using iTunes’ High Quality setting. In iMovie, we applied the Aged Film effect from the Video FX menu to a one minute movie. We used Compressor to encode a 6minute:26second DV file using the DVD: Fastest Encode 120 minutes – 4:3 setting. We recorded how long it took to render a scene in Cinema 4D XL. 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. The MacBook Pro models and the iMac had 4GB RAM with OSX 10.5.6, the rest were tested with 2GB of RAM and OS X 10.5.5. Adobe Photoshop, Cinema 4D XL, iMovie, iTunes, and Finder scores are in minutes:seconds. Speedmark 5 scores are relative to those of a 1.5GHz Core Solo Mac mini, which is assigned a score of 100. The new 15-inch 2.66GHz MacBook Pro posted about a 10 percent faster Speedmark score than the 2.4GHz MacBook. Unibody MacBooks ( ) hold their own very well against its Pro siblings. The full-sized, faster spinning hard drive in the newĢ.66GHz 24-inch iMac kept that system ahead of the new 2.66GHz 15-inch MacBook Pro in all but the most processor-intensive tasks and our Quake 4 test. The hard drive in the new 15-inch 2.66GHz MacBook Pro appears to be a bit zippier than theġ7-inch 2.66GHz MacBook Pro ( ), with the new 15-inch model beating the 17-inch model by a few seconds in several of our tests. The 2.53GHz model was a touch faster than new 2.66GHz model at Quake, but only by 1.5 frames per second. Our test showed smaller improvements in tasks involving both processor and hard drive, and no difference in strictly storage-related tasks. The biggest improvements were, of course, in processor-intensive tests like our Cinema 4D Render test and Compressor MPEG Encoder test, where the new 2.66GHz MacBook Pro shaved 4 or 5 seconds off the time of the 2.53GHz MacBook Pro.
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