In our tests, where we loop a movie from the hard drive at full screen, full brightness with AirPort connected to our local network and the volume on (but low), the MacBook was able to run for nearly 5 hours, or 58 minutes longer than the MacBook it replaces.
With the new graphics and some minor changes to the battery, the new MacBook can last longer between charging cycles.
We opened a 500-page Word document in Pages ’09.-Macworld Lab testing by James Galbraith, Chris Holt, Lynn La, and Meghann Myers Battery life We used HandBrake to rip a DVD chapter to the hard drive. We ran WorldBench 6 multitasking test on a Parallels VM. We converted 90 minutes of AAC audio files to MP3 using iTunes’ High Quality setting. In iMovie, we imported a camera archive and exported it to iTunes for Mobile Devices setting. We used Compressor to encode a MOV file to the application’s H.264 for video podcast setting.We timed the import and thumbnail/preview creation time for 150 photos. We recorded how long it took to render a scene with mulitprocessors in CinemaBench. Photoshop’s memory was set to 70 percent and History was set to Minimum. The Photoshop Suite test is a set of 14 scripted tasks using a 50MB file. All systems were tested with 10.6.3 and 4GB RAM. All others are in minutes:seconds (lower is better, except for Battery Life, where higher is better). Speedmark and MathematicaMark are performance scores (higher scores are better). Call of Duty score is in frames per second (higher is better). The new MacBook’s faster processor also helped it post a 10 percent faster Cinebench CPU score.īest results in bold. We found that the new MacBook, with a Speedmark 6 score of 118, was seven percent faster than the 2.26GHz MacBook it replaces.īy far, the biggest gain was in our 3D game tests, in which the new MacBook, with its Nvidia GeForce 320M graphics, was able to display 66 percent more frames per second than the older model with its Nvidia GeForce 9400M graphics. Speedmark 6 suite of overall system tests. To find out how much these enhancements affect performance, we ran the new MacBook through our Macworld Lab testing by James Galbraith, Chris Holt, Chris Holt, Lynn La, and Meghann Myers. Blue bars in italics represent reference systems.
The included warranty and AppleCare won’t cover a MacBook with 8GB of RAM. It’s possible to install 8GB of RAM in a MacBook and it would probably work just fine, but if something goes wrong, you’d be on your own. MacBook Pro line ships with 4GB of RAM standard, with a maximum configuration of 8GB. Like the older system, the new MacBook ships standard with 2GB of RAM, and Apple says that 4GB is the recommended maximum RAM configuration.
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