BuBuBac Intel Core i7 testing with a Apple MacBook Air and Intel HD 3000 384MB on OS X 10.8.2 (12C60) via the Phoronix Test Suite. metal: Processor: Intel Core i7 @ 1.80GHz (2 Cores), Motherboard: Apple MacBook Air, Chipset: Intel 6, Memory: 2 x 2048 DDR3-1333MHz, Disk: 251GB APPLE SSD SM256C, Graphics: Intel HD 3000 384MB, Monitor: Color LCD OS: OS X 10.8.2 (12C60), Kernel: 12.2.0 (x86_64), Display Server: X Server 1.13.0, OpenGL: 2.1, Compiler: Clang 4.1 + GCC 4.2.1 + Xcode 4.5.2, File-System: Unknown, Screen Resolution: 1366x768 pls-quad-tools: Processor: Intel Core i7-2677M @ 1.80GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: Parallels Software Virtual, Chipset: Red Hat Virtio + ICH8/R, Memory: 1024MB, Disk: 17GB Tooless-0 SSD, Graphics: Device 1ab8:4005, Audio: Intel 82801BA/BAM, Network: Intel 82545EM Gigabit OS: Ubuntu 12.04, Kernel: 3.2.0-33-generic (x86_64), Display Driver: device, Compiler: GCC 4.6, File-System: ext4 Gzip Compression 2GB File Compression Seconds < Lower Is Better metal .......... 18.88 |==================================================== pls-quad-tools . 19.79 |======================================================= Bork File Encrypter 1.4 File Encryption Time Seconds < Lower Is Better metal .......... 24.99 |======================================== pls-quad-tools . 34.30 |======================================================= Compile Bench 0.6 Test: Read Compiled Tree MB/s > Higher Is Better metal . 231.93 |=============================================================== PostMark 1.51 Disk Transaction Performance TPS > Higher Is Better metal . 1095 |=================================================================