I purchased a MacBook 2.4/250 GB a few days ago. I ordered 4 GB of memory from Crucial ($142) and a Seagate Momentus 7200.3 ST9320421ASG ($98.99). I was curious to see how this would affect my system so I ran XBench 3 times with each setup. In between each test run I rebooted. After running the test three times, I shutdown and timed my system startup from the time I pressed the power button until I saw the login screen. In between each startup test I shutdown the system and waited about 10 seconds.
The test scores will be listed in the order of 250/2, 250/4, 320/2, 320/4 and will be the average of all three tests.
Startup: 30.6, 33.02, 25.29, 28.65
CPU Test: 139.34, 149.6, 144.24, 145.24
Thread Test: 289.82, 258.51, 306.59, 299.84
Memory Test: 179.83, 187.15, 169.74, 178.62
Quartz Graphics: 166.59, 166.37, 174.1, 170.11
OpenGL Graphics: 155.98, 148.09, 146.58, 150.7
User Interface: 270.6, 275.29, 258.13, 250.76
Disk Test Total: 45.6, 46.08, 45.26, 55.16
Disk Sequential: 75.95, 75.69, 100.02, 115.67
Disk Random: 32.63, 33.13, 29.27, 36.26
Final Score:185.15, 188.3, 165.38, 188.8
What I noticed during my testing is that the Seagate drive did noticeably boot faster than the standard drive. I included the sub test results for the drive test (sequential & random) because the difference was pretty significant. I've attached my original test results as a csv text file.
I must say, overall I am very impressed with this computer. This is my 6th mac (my first being a Performa 575) and it definitely is my favorite so far.
The test scores will be listed in the order of 250/2, 250/4, 320/2, 320/4 and will be the average of all three tests.
Startup: 30.6, 33.02, 25.29, 28.65
CPU Test: 139.34, 149.6, 144.24, 145.24
Thread Test: 289.82, 258.51, 306.59, 299.84
Memory Test: 179.83, 187.15, 169.74, 178.62
Quartz Graphics: 166.59, 166.37, 174.1, 170.11
OpenGL Graphics: 155.98, 148.09, 146.58, 150.7
User Interface: 270.6, 275.29, 258.13, 250.76
Disk Test Total: 45.6, 46.08, 45.26, 55.16
Disk Sequential: 75.95, 75.69, 100.02, 115.67
Disk Random: 32.63, 33.13, 29.27, 36.26
Final Score:185.15, 188.3, 165.38, 188.8
What I noticed during my testing is that the Seagate drive did noticeably boot faster than the standard drive. I included the sub test results for the drive test (sequential & random) because the difference was pretty significant. I've attached my original test results as a csv text file.
I must say, overall I am very impressed with this computer. This is my 6th mac (my first being a Performa 575) and it definitely is my favorite so far.
I will get RAM as soon as the price is below 100$