mac Intel Core 2 Duo testing with a Apple MacBook and NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256MB on Mac OS X 10.6.8 via the Phoronix Test Suite. mac1: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook, Chipset: NVIDIA MCP89, Memory: 2 x 1024 MB DDR3-1067MHz, Disk: 250GB TOSHIBA MK2555GSXF, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256MB, Monitor: Color LCD OS: Mac OS X 10.6.8, Kernel: 10.8.0 (i386), Display Server: X Server 1.4.2-apple56, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: GCC 4.2.1 + Clang 2.0 + Xcode 4.0, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 1280x800 laptop1: Processor: AMD Turion II Ultra Mobile M600 @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Gateway SJV50TR, Chipset: AMD RS880 + SB7x0/SB8x0/SB9x0, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 320GB Western Digital WD3200BEVT-2, Graphics: AMD Mobility Radeon HD 4200 256MB, Audio: Conexant CX20561 (Hermosa), Monitor: LP156WH2-TLE1, Network: Broadcom NetLink BCM5784M Gigabit PCIe + Atheros AR928X Wireless OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-33-generic (x86_64), Desktop: Unity 5.16.0, Display Driver: radeon 6.14.99, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1024x768 BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Dhrystone 2 LPS > Higher Is Better mac1 .... 12130721.93 |======================================================== laptop1 . 6811110.83 |=============================== BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Integer Arithmetic LPS > Higher Is Better mac1 .... 2313558.13 |========================================================= laptop1 . 1.00 | BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Register Arithmetic LPS > Higher Is Better mac1 .... 2310472.17 |========================================================= laptop1 . 1.00 | BYTE Unix Benchmark 3.6 Computational Test: Floating-Point Arithmetic LPS > Higher Is Better mac1 .... 1879975.03 |========================================================= laptop1 . 1.00 |