Mac OS X 10.8 Performance Intel Core i5 testing with a Apple Mac mini and Intel HD 3000 288MB on OS X 10.8 (12A128p) via the Phoronix Test Suite. Mountain Lion: Processor: Intel Core i5 @ 2.30GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac mini, Chipset: Intel 6, Memory: 2 x 1 GB DDR3-1333MHz, Disk: 500GB Hitachi HTS545050B9A302, Graphics: Intel HD 3000 288MB, Monitor: Acer P243W OS: OS X 10.8 (12A128p), Kernel: 12.0.0 (x86_64), Display Driver: intel, Compiler: Xcode 4.2.1, File-System: Journaled HFS+, Screen Resolution: 1920x1200 Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Initial Create MB/s > Higher Is Better Mountain Lion . 27.94 |======================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Compile MB/s > Higher Is Better Mountain Lion . 32.41 |======================================================== Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better Mountain Lion . 34.26 |======================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Composite Mflops > Higher Is Better Mountain Lion . 943.31 |======================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Fast Fourier Transform Mflops > Higher Is Better Mountain Lion . 186.56 |======================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Jacobi Successive Over-Relaxation Mflops > Higher Is Better Mountain Lion . 1124.04 |====================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Monte Carlo Mflops > Higher Is Better Mountain Lion . 381.78 |======================================================= SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Sparse Matrix Multiply Mflops > Higher Is Better Mountain Lion . 1367.92 |====================================================== SciMark 2.0 Computational Test: Dense LU Matrix Factorization Mflops > Higher Is Better Mountain Lion . 1656.23 |====================================================== 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Mountain Lion . 6072 |========================================================= John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Traditional DES Real C/S > Higher Is Better Mountain Lion . 3937000 |====================================================== John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: MD5 Real C/S > Higher Is Better Mountain Lion . 6066 |========================================================= John The Ripper 1.7.9 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better Mountain Lion . 413 |========================================================== PyBench 2008-08-14 Total For Average Test Times Milliseconds < Lower Is Better Mountain Lion . 4424 |========================================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Mountain Lion . 128.03 |======================================================= Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better Mountain Lion . 28.54 |======================================================== dcraw RAW To PPM Image Conversion Seconds < Lower Is Better Mountain Lion . 29.63 |======================================================== Timed MAFFT Alignment 6.864 Multiple Sequence Alignment Seconds < Lower Is Better Mountain Lion . 32.19 |======================================================== Sudokut 0.4 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Mountain Lion . 51.69 |========================================================