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 toshiba-satellite-x200-terry: Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo T9300 @ 2.40GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: TOSHIBA ISRAA v1.00, Chipset: Intel Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 + ICH8M, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 2 x 500GB Seagate ST95005620AS, Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 256MB (475/702MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC268 OS: Fedora release 15 (Lovelock), Kernel: 2.6.38.8-35.fc15.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.0.2, Display Server: X Server 1.10.3, Display Driver: nouveau 0.0.16, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 7.11-devel Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.6.0, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1680x1050 Dell Inspiron 9300 Terry: Processor: Intel Pentium M @ 1.73GHz (1 Core), Motherboard: Dell 0C5668, Chipset: Intel Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML + ICH6M, Memory: 2048MB, Disk: 60GB Hitachi HTS726060M9AT00, Graphics: AMD Mobility Radeon X300 OS: Fedora release 13 (Goddard), Kernel: 2.6.34.7-66.fc13.i686 (i686), Desktop: GNOME 2.30.2, Display Server: X Server 1.8.2, Display Driver: radeon 6.13.0, OpenGL: 1.5 Mesa 7.8.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 Timed Apache Compilation 2.2.17 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better MacBook Pro Terry ............ 9.24 |===== macbook-pro-terry ............ 9.34 |===== toshiba-satellite-x200-terry . 56.92 |=============================== Dell Inspiron 9300 Terry ..... 74.53 |========================================= Dell Inspiron 9300 Terry ..... 59.46 |=================================