Snow Leopard - What Improvement?

[lloyd709]

I just installed Snow Leopard on my MacBook Pro, but before I installed it I ran a few of my own benchmarks such as start up time, time to copy a large number of images, time to run a number of photoshop actions (all the general stuff I do).

After installing Snow Leopard I noticed that the computer started up about 30 percent faster (which is nice) but there's absolutely no difference in the speed of anything else. Also, not that I have much faith in it anyway, but the xBench score went from 141 to 122 - mainly do to a large drop in it's performance on the OpenGL Graphics Test.

Well that was £25 worth spent (I save 15 seconds every time I start my computer). If anyone can give a little insight that might me feel better about my purchase it would be nice.

Thanks

 

[nOw2]

My personal impression: I'd pay 25 quid just for the Mail.app speed improvements.

Make sure you have no incompatible apps bogging the machine down. In general SL has provided a big day-to-day performance improvement here.

 

[ttopp]

try repairing permissions and resetting the pram

Repairing Permissions: start up from SL disc and use disc utility.

Reset PRAM: shut down then restart holding the CMD ALT P R keys down.

Then try your tests again..

these might help there again they might no..

 

[Winni]

If anyone can give a little insight that might me feel better about my purchase it would be nice.

Well, your Airport wireless connection won't work properly anymore with Snow Leopard - which means you will receive a lot less spam emails and you won't be wasting so much time on the Internet anymore, because the connection will always fail...

But besides the "improvements" for Apple's Airport cards, I still haven't found anything worth noticing about Snow Leopard. It was a pay-for service pack for Leopard, but one that made things actually worse.