For those who are interested in getting a SSD upgrade.
HDD: ST 250G that came with the machine
SSD: OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 240G ($494 with amazon checkout, plus a USB2.0 enclosure kit). The installation was quite easy, particularly with superduper software.
MBP13: OS snow leopard 10.6.5
Ram: 8G (I upgraded about two months ago with 2x4GB kingston ram)
Xbench score improved from about 130 to about 210 (comparable to late 2009 i7 iMac 27), solely due to improved hard drive performance (score from 45 to about 250)
As for the freezing problem from idle sleep, yes I did encounter a few times, but not consistantly. I decided not to disable the default sleeping/hibernating function unless the frequency of freezing gets to irritating.
Times to launch the system reduced from about 45 seconds to about 15s (counting total time starting from pushing the power button).
Detailed xbench score are listed below:
OWC SSD+374
374+OWC SSD
Results 210.70
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.5 (10H574)
Physical RAM 8192 MB
Model MacBookPro7,1
Drive Type OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD
CPU Test 170.58
GCD Loop 281.51 14.84 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 138.54 3.29 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 112.84 3.72 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 261.95 45.61 Mops/sec
Thread Test 308.99
Computation 370.96 7.52 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 264.76 11.39 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 192.87
System 216.71
Allocate 367.51 1.35 Malloc/sec
Fill 179.54 8729.60 MB/sec
Copy 180.09 3719.65 MB/sec
Stream 173.76
Copy 167.02 3449.80 MB/sec
Scale 161.68 3340.33 MB/sec
Add 185.15 3944.18 MB/sec
Triad 183.60 3927.63 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 197.11
Line 160.80 10.71 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 240.30 71.74 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 187.77 15.31 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 202.75 5.11 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 211.51 13.23 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 142.75
Spinning Squares 142.75 181.09 frames/sec
User Interface Test 328.61
Elements 328.61 1.51 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 262.01
Sequential 153.33
Uncached Write 247.47 151.94 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 234.75 132.82 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 66.98 19.60 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 349.84 175.83 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 899.95
Uncached Write 1257.23 133.09 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 480.25 153.74 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 1977.41 14.01 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 942.21 174.83 MB/sec [256K blocks]
374+ST 250G HDD
Results 135.99
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.5 (10H574)
Physical RAM 8192 MB
Model MacBookPro7,1
Drive Type ST9250315ASG
CPU Test 169.49
GCD Loop 281.51 14.84 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 133.90 3.18 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 114.14 3.77 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 261.90 45.61 Mops/sec
Thread Test 308.80
Computation 382.09 7.74 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 259.10 11.15 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 191.35
System 217.49
Allocate 306.14 1.12 Malloc/sec
Fill 179.13 8709.92 MB/sec
Copy 202.22 4176.84 MB/sec
Stream 170.82
Copy 163.69 3380.88 MB/sec
Scale 160.74 3320.82 MB/sec
Add 180.86 3852.70 MB/sec
Triad 179.95 3849.53 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 190.96
Line 162.63 10.83 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 237.73 70.97 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 202.62 16.52 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 188.81 4.76 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 178.67 11.18 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 135.22
Spinning Squares 135.22 171.53 frames/sec
User Interface Test 288.53
Elements 288.53 1.32 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 47.59
Sequential 88.22
Uncached Write 112.82 69.27 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 102.10 57.77 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 58.21 17.03 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 105.24 52.89 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 32.58
Uncached Write 11.48 1.22 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 97.54 31.23 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 62.50 0.44 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 106.29 19.72 MB/sec [256K blocks]
2009 i7 iMac
09 27"iMac
Results 219.03
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.5 (10H574)
Physical RAM 8192 MB
Model iMac11,1
Drive Type ST31000528ASQ
CPU Test 228.37
GCD Loop 356.10 18.77 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 204.71 4.86 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 132.62 4.38 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 438.23 76.31 Mops/sec
Thread Test 772.28
Computation 781.87 15.84 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 762.92 32.82 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 418.60
System 459.52
Allocate 426.42 1.57 Malloc/sec
Fill 398.19 19361.13 MB/sec
Copy 598.05 12352.52 MB/sec
Stream 384.38
Copy 367.21 7584.64 MB/sec
Scale 355.49 7344.34 MB/sec
Add 410.97 8754.47 MB/sec
Triad 410.36 8778.52 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 289.91
Line 257.05 17.11 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 340.20 101.57 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 280.66 22.88 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 284.46 7.17 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 299.54 18.74 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 351.20
Spinning Squares 351.20 445.51 frames/sec
User Interface Test 473.78
Elements 473.78 2.17 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 64.56
Sequential 190.79
Uncached Write 203.26 124.80 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 196.39 111.12 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 147.05 43.04 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 240.77 121.01 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 38.86
Uncached Write 11.66 1.23 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 319.18 102.18 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 112.48 0.80 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 194.50 36.09 MB/sec [256K blocks]
HDD: ST 250G that came with the machine
SSD: OWC Mercury Extreme Pro 240G ($494 with amazon checkout, plus a USB2.0 enclosure kit). The installation was quite easy, particularly with superduper software.
MBP13: OS snow leopard 10.6.5
Ram: 8G (I upgraded about two months ago with 2x4GB kingston ram)
Xbench score improved from about 130 to about 210 (comparable to late 2009 i7 iMac 27), solely due to improved hard drive performance (score from 45 to about 250)
As for the freezing problem from idle sleep, yes I did encounter a few times, but not consistantly. I decided not to disable the default sleeping/hibernating function unless the frequency of freezing gets to irritating.
Times to launch the system reduced from about 45 seconds to about 15s (counting total time starting from pushing the power button).
Detailed xbench score are listed below:
OWC SSD+374
374+OWC SSD
Results 210.70
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.5 (10H574)
Physical RAM 8192 MB
Model MacBookPro7,1
Drive Type OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD
CPU Test 170.58
GCD Loop 281.51 14.84 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 138.54 3.29 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 112.84 3.72 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 261.95 45.61 Mops/sec
Thread Test 308.99
Computation 370.96 7.52 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 264.76 11.39 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 192.87
System 216.71
Allocate 367.51 1.35 Malloc/sec
Fill 179.54 8729.60 MB/sec
Copy 180.09 3719.65 MB/sec
Stream 173.76
Copy 167.02 3449.80 MB/sec
Scale 161.68 3340.33 MB/sec
Add 185.15 3944.18 MB/sec
Triad 183.60 3927.63 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 197.11
Line 160.80 10.71 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 240.30 71.74 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 187.77 15.31 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 202.75 5.11 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 211.51 13.23 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 142.75
Spinning Squares 142.75 181.09 frames/sec
User Interface Test 328.61
Elements 328.61 1.51 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 262.01
Sequential 153.33
Uncached Write 247.47 151.94 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 234.75 132.82 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 66.98 19.60 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 349.84 175.83 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 899.95
Uncached Write 1257.23 133.09 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 480.25 153.74 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 1977.41 14.01 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 942.21 174.83 MB/sec [256K blocks]
374+ST 250G HDD
Results 135.99
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.5 (10H574)
Physical RAM 8192 MB
Model MacBookPro7,1
Drive Type ST9250315ASG
CPU Test 169.49
GCD Loop 281.51 14.84 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 133.90 3.18 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 114.14 3.77 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 261.90 45.61 Mops/sec
Thread Test 308.80
Computation 382.09 7.74 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 259.10 11.15 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 191.35
System 217.49
Allocate 306.14 1.12 Malloc/sec
Fill 179.13 8709.92 MB/sec
Copy 202.22 4176.84 MB/sec
Stream 170.82
Copy 163.69 3380.88 MB/sec
Scale 160.74 3320.82 MB/sec
Add 180.86 3852.70 MB/sec
Triad 179.95 3849.53 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 190.96
Line 162.63 10.83 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 237.73 70.97 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 202.62 16.52 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 188.81 4.76 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 178.67 11.18 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 135.22
Spinning Squares 135.22 171.53 frames/sec
User Interface Test 288.53
Elements 288.53 1.32 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 47.59
Sequential 88.22
Uncached Write 112.82 69.27 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 102.10 57.77 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 58.21 17.03 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 105.24 52.89 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 32.58
Uncached Write 11.48 1.22 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 97.54 31.23 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 62.50 0.44 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 106.29 19.72 MB/sec [256K blocks]
2009 i7 iMac
09 27"iMac
Results 219.03
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.6.5 (10H574)
Physical RAM 8192 MB
Model iMac11,1
Drive Type ST31000528ASQ
CPU Test 228.37
GCD Loop 356.10 18.77 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 204.71 4.86 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 132.62 4.38 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 438.23 76.31 Mops/sec
Thread Test 772.28
Computation 781.87 15.84 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 762.92 32.82 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 418.60
System 459.52
Allocate 426.42 1.57 Malloc/sec
Fill 398.19 19361.13 MB/sec
Copy 598.05 12352.52 MB/sec
Stream 384.38
Copy 367.21 7584.64 MB/sec
Scale 355.49 7344.34 MB/sec
Add 410.97 8754.47 MB/sec
Triad 410.36 8778.52 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 289.91
Line 257.05 17.11 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 340.20 101.57 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 280.66 22.88 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 284.46 7.17 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 299.54 18.74 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 351.20
Spinning Squares 351.20 445.51 frames/sec
User Interface Test 473.78
Elements 473.78 2.17 Krefresh/sec
Disk Test 64.56
Sequential 190.79
Uncached Write 203.26 124.80 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 196.39 111.12 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 147.05 43.04 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 240.77 121.01 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 38.86
Uncached Write 11.66 1.23 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 319.18 102.18 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 112.48 0.80 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 194.50 36.09 MB/sec [256K blocks]