When we first posted our review article of Apple ’s new MacBooks , we did n’t let in a mouse evaluation or bench mark results for the white-hot 2.0GHz example . The intellect for this omission ? While we were capable to get our hands on the 1.83GHz and black 2GHz MacBooks fair quickly , it took a fiddling longer to cut through down that third mannequin .
Well , the white 2GHz configuration arrived ultimately , so we put the laptop through our battery of tests . You might think , “ Why did they bother ? ” After all , away from the casing color , the only other deviation between the white and black 2GHz MacBook is the hard driving force — a 60 GB 5,400 - rpm drive in the white model and an 80 GB , 5,400 - rpm one in the black . And if you were to look at their score on our overall system performance examination tool , Speedmark , you would recover data to back up that stance .
However , the differences in some of the individual tests that make up Speedmark were big enough that we rushed the blackamoor the MacBook back from its offsite photo shoot to extend some more tests . After quiz the bloodless 2GHz MacBook and comparing the results to the published scores of the fatal model , we saw small functioning differences in many of the tests , with the boundary go to the white mannikin in most cases . Retesting leveled out a few tests ( though I ca n’t explain why ) , but still shows the white 2GHz model performing better than the black simulation , most notably in our Compressor MPEG-2 Encoding test and our iMovie examination practice the Aged video core to a clip .
With the systems merchant vessels with monovular processors , RAM and graphics , we focused our testing attention on the operose drive . Thankfully , switch hard drives between the MacBooks is middling painless , because we did a lot of it and find that the results in question followed the driveway to whatever system it was instal in . We buy and installed a 100 GB , 7,200RPM Seagate crusade in the black MacBook and see its operation gain like a shot , foreshorten the gap between clean and mordant on many of our tests , like Compressor , iMovie and iTunes , while whip the whiteness in the more labour - intensive tasks like zipping , unzipping , and double files .
The weirdest solution get along from our iPhoto importee exam , which come out to be very hard drive sensitive . Surprisingly , the winner was n’t the Seagate 7200RPM drive , but the Fujitsu 5,400 - rpm drive found in the disgraceful MacBook and 17 - in MacBook Pro . The white MacBook had a Seagate 5,400 - revolutions per minute drive , which edge out the Fujitsu in zipping and unzipping large leaflet , but fall behind far behind in the iPhoto test . The top - level specs of these drives do n’t offer any explanation — both have 8 Mbit caches and both move at 5,400 - revolutions per minute . We installed , wiped , reinstalled , and moved the parkway around trying to figure this one out , but the results always follow the drives .
Other solvent , like those from Photoshop , 3 - D secret plan , 3 - D rendering tasks , Web browser app tests , Microsoft Word coil , and so forth , were very similar , which explain the very like composite Speedmark scores .
2GHz MacBook (white) Results
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Speedmark 4.5 scores are proportional to those of a 1.25GHz Mac miniskirt , which is assigned a grudge of 100 . Adobe Photoshop , Cinema 4D XL , iMovie , iTunes , and Zip Archive scores are in minutes : seconds . All systems were run Mac OS X 10.4.6 with 1 GB of RAM , with processor performance set to Highest in the Energy Saver taste pane when applicable . The Photoshop Suite trial is a set of 14 written tasks using a 50 MB file . Photoshop ’s memory was set to 70 percentage and story was arrange to Minimum . We enter how long it involve to provide a view in Cinema4D. We used Compressor to encode a 6minute:26second DV file using the videodisk : Fastest Encode 120 minutes – 4:3 stage setting . In iMovie , we applied the senior video issue to a 1 - minute movie . We converted 45 minute of AAC audio files to MP3 using iTunes ’ High Quality mise en scene . We used Unreal Tournament 2004 ’s Antalus Botmatch mediocre - material body - per - irregular sexual conquest ; we tested at a resolution of 1,024 by 768 picture element at the Maximum setting with both audio and graphic enabled . We created a Zip archive in the Finder from a 1 GB brochure . To equate Speedmark 4.5 lashings for various Mac system , visit our Apple Hardware Guide .—Macworld Lab examination by James Galbraith and Jerry Jung
Macworld ’s Jonathan Seff has update his review of the newfangled MacBooks to let in the clean 2GHz MacBook ’s rating and benchmarks .
