Interesting idea...

[PowerFullMac]

Hi, as you can tell from my capital bold signature, I am getting a MacBook on Sunday, I am very excited to get it and behold its greatness :D

Now, here is the idea, I will be getting a brand new (so latest rev.) base model MacBook (the differences between all of them are small anyway) and when I plan to do it benchmark it and post the results up on here, I will then post the results after the 4GB RAM upgrade I will do.

What will make this really interesting is people can post up there own benchmarks from their own Macs, specify what Mac it is, what revision, and what the specs are, of course, and we can all compare them. It would be very interesting to find out that my maxed-out MacBook is faster than a BlackBook :D

So, post away!

Oh yeah, ONE VERY IMPORTANT RULE: To make the test fair, you all have to use Geekbench! (http://www.primatelabs.ca/geekbench/)

[msheldrick]

Platform: Mac OS X x86 (32-bit)
Compiler: GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5.2 (Build 9C7010)
Model: MacBook (Early 2008)
Motherboard: Apple Inc. Mac-F22788A9 PVT
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T8300 @ 2.40GHz
Processor ID: GenuineIntel Family 6 Model 23 Stepping 6
Logical Processors: 2
Physical Processors: 1
Processor Frequency: 2.40 GHz
L1 Instruction Cache: 32.0 KB
L1 Data Cache: 32.0 KB
L2 Cache: 3.00 MB
L3 Cache: 0.00 B
Bus Frequency: 800 MHz
Memory: 2.00 GB
Memory Type: 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
SIMD: 1
BIOS: Apple Inc. MB41.88Z.00C1.B00.0802091535
Processor Model: Intel Core 2 Duo T8300

Integer (Score: 2787)
Blowfish single-threaded scalar -- 1972, 1.0, 86.6 MB/sec
Blowfish multi-threaded scalar -- 4172, 2.0, 171.0 MB/sec
Text Compress single-threaded scalar -- 1859, 1.0, 5.95 MB/sec
Text Compress multi-threaded scalar -- 3347, 1.8, 11.0 MB/sec
Text Decompress single-threaded scalar -- 1667, 1.0, 6.85 MB/sec
Text Decompress multi-threaded scalar -- 3275, 1.9, 13.1 MB/sec
Image Compress single-threaded scalar -- 1708, 1.0, 14.1 Mpixels/sec
Image Compress multi-threaded scalar -- 3302, 2.0, 27.8 Mpixels/sec
Image Decompress single-threaded scalar -- 1404, 1.0, 23.6 Mpixels/sec
Image Decompress multi-threaded scalar -- 2800, 1.9, 45.7 Mpixels/sec
Crafty Chess single-threaded scalar -- 2064, 1.0, 1.04 Mnodes/sec
Crafty Chess multi-threaded scalar -- 3537, 1.6, 1.72 Mnodes/sec
Lua single-threaded scalar -- 2739, 1.0, 1.05 Mnodes/sec
Lua multi-threaded scalar -- 5176, 1.9, 1.99 Mnodes/sec

Floating Point (Score: 4383)
Mandelbrot single-threaded scalar -- 1790, 1.0, 1.19 Gflops
Mandelbrot multi-threaded scalar -- 3597, 2.0, 2.35 Gflops
Dot Product single-threaded scalar -- 2230, 1.0, 1.08 Gflops
Dot Product multi-threaded scalar -- 5552, 2.3, 2.53 Gflops
Dot Product single-threaded vector -- 1325, 1.5, 1.59 Gflops
Dot Product multi-threaded vector -- 3933, 3.8, 4.09 Gflops
LU Decomposition single-threaded scalar -- 690, 1.0, 614.5 Mflops
LU Decomposition multi-threaded scalar -- 1404, 2.0, 1.23 Gflops
Primality Test single-threaded scalar -- 3425, 1.0, 511.6 Mflops
Primality Test multi-threaded scalar -- 5068, 1.8, 940.7 Mflops
Sharpen Image single-threaded scalar -- 4797, 1.0, 11.2 Mpixels/sec
Sharpen Image multi-threaded scalar -- 9462, 1.9, 21.8 Mpixels/sec
Blur Image single-threaded scalar -- 6205, 1.0, 4.91 Mpixels/sec
Blur Image multi-threaded scalar -- 11895, 1.9, 9.35 Mpixels/sec

Memory (Score: 2383)
Read Sequential single-threaded scalar -- 3296, 1.0, 4.04 GB/sec
Write Sequential single-threaded scalar -- 2688, 1.0, 1.84 GB/sec
Stdlib Allocate single-threaded scalar -- 2011, 1.0, 7.50 Mallocs/sec
Stdlib Write single-threaded scalar -- 1873, 1.0, 3.88 GB/sec
Stdlib Copy single-threaded scalar -- 2051, 1.0, 2.11 GB/sec

Stream (Score: 1884)
Stream Copy single-threaded scalar -- 1784, 1.0, 2.44 GB/sec
Stream Copy single-threaded vector -- 1959, 1.0, 2.54 GB/sec
Stream Scale single-threaded scalar -- 2094, 1.0, 2.72 GB/sec
Stream Scale single-threaded vector -- 2118, 1.1, 2.86 GB/sec
Stream Add single-threaded scalar -- 1670, 1.0, 2.52 GB/sec
Stream Add single-threaded vector -- 2120, 1.2, 2.95 GB/sec
Stream Triad single-threaded scalar -- 1831, 1.0, 2.53 GB/sec
Stream Triad single-threaded vector -- 1501, 1.1, 2.81 GB/sec

[DaBrain]

I think I'll pass on spending 20 bucks just to show my stats. Besides many have already done this.;)

[krye]

Who cares? Why do people still get wet over these useless benchmarks? All that means nothing when you spend half your time in this forum. No one uses their machine 100% all the time.

[Kalafut]

i really dont care about benchmarks, but geekbench is free
and my overall score was 4236

[wordy]

What kind of cheapskate buys a base model then worries about benchmarks? Or better yet, is worrying about benchmarks even before they have the machine.

[DaBrain]

i really dont care about benchmarks, but geekbench is free
and my overall score was 4236

Well thats odd! Here's a paragraph copied from the above web link:

Purchase

Geekbench costs $19.95 and you'll receive your serial number immediately after purchase. How can you say no? Head on over to the Primate Labs Store and purchase your copy today!

Doesn't look free to me! Either way I could care less about bench marks etc.... I judge the computer on what it does and the way it looks/performs on my desk---))) ;)

[PowerFullMac]

There is a trial...

If you dont want to do it then dont conplain!

I am also not a "cheapskate", I dont need a big hard drive because I barley used a 40GB HD, the only difference in the CPU speeds is .3GHz which is very insignificant and as for RAM I am upgrading it.

[SFStateStudent]

What will make this really interesting is people can post up there own benchmarks from their own Macs, specify what Mac it is, what revision, and what the specs are, of course, and we can all compare them. It would be very interesting to find out that my maxed-out MacBook is faster than a BlackBook :D

Oh yeah, ONE VERY IMPORTANT RULE: To make the test fair, you all have to use Geekbench! (http://www.primatelabs.ca/geekbench/)

Dude, wait until you get the MB, and don't waste your time with "benchmarks" b/c each of us use our MB for different tasks, and there's no way your baby MB can "tango" with my "maxed-out" BlackBook 2.4 Penryn; 'cause mine is "BIGGER" than yours! LOL :eek::p