Permeance Laptops Intel Core i7 testing with a Apple MacBook Pro under Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K540) via the Phoronix Test Suite. MacBook Pro Terry: Processor: Intel Core i7 @ 2.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Chipset: Intel 6, Memory: 2 x 4 GB DDR3-1333MHz, Disk: 500GB ST95005620AS, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 6750M 1024MB OS: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K540), Kernel: 10.8.0 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.4.2-apple56, Display Driver: ati, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: GCC 4.2.1 + Clang 2.0, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 1440x900 macbook-pro-terry: Processor: Intel Core i7 @ 2.20GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Pro, Chipset: Intel 6, Memory: 2 x 4 GB DDR3-1333MHz, Disk: 500GB ST95005620AS, Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 6750M 1024MB OS: Mac OS X 10.6.8 (10K540), Kernel: 10.8.0 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.4.2-apple56, Display Driver: ati, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: GCC 4.2.1 + Clang 2.0, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 1440x900 Timed Apache Compilation 2.2.17 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better MacBook Pro Terry . 9.24 |==================================================== macbook-pro-terry . 9.34 |=====================================================