MacBook Pro Fedora 17 Intel Core i5 520M testing with a Apple Mac-F22586C8 and Intel Core IGP 256MB on Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle) via the Phoronix Test Suite. Apple MacBook Pro: Processor: Intel Core i5 520M @ 2.40GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Apple Mac-F22586C8, Chipset: Intel Core DRAM, Memory: 4096MB, Disk: 120GB OCZ ILITY2, Graphics: Intel Core IGP 256MB, Audio: Cirrus Logic CS4206, Monitor: Color LCD, Network: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5764M Gigabit PCIe + Broadcom BCM43224 802.11a/b/g/n OS: Fedora 17 (Beefy Miracle), Kernel: 3.5.2-3.fc17.x86_64 (x86_64), Desktop: GNOME Shell 3.4.1, Display Server: X Server 1.12.3, Display Driver: vesa 2.3.1, OpenGL: 2.1 Mesa 8.0.3 Gallium 0.4, Compiler: GCC 4.7.0 20120507, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1440x900 7-Zip Compression 9.20.1 Compress Speed Test MIPS > Higher Is Better Apple MacBook Pro . 6516 |===================================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.1 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better Apple MacBook Pro . 242.20 |=================================================== C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Apple MacBook Pro . 102.24 |=================================================== Smallpt 1.0 Global Illumination Renderer; 100 Samples Seconds < Lower Is Better Apple MacBook Pro . 341 |====================================================== Crafty 23.4 Elapsed Time Seconds < Lower Is Better Apple MacBook Pro . 107.77 |=================================================== Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Bibd Seconds < Lower Is Better Apple MacBook Pro . 200.45 |=================================================== Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Graceful Seconds < Lower Is Better Apple MacBook Pro . 118.98 |=================================================== Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Solitaire Seconds < Lower Is Better Apple MacBook Pro . 205.24 |=================================================== Minion 0.12 Benchmark: Quasigroup Seconds < Lower Is Better Apple MacBook Pro . 236.34 |=================================================== OpenSSL 1.0.0e RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better Apple MacBook Pro . 44.78 |==================================================== PostgreSQL pgbench 8.4.11 TPC-B Transactions Per Second TPS > Higher Is Better Apple MacBook Pro . 2321.93 |==================================================