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Macbook Pro performance test result

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:12 pm
by jimmynitcher
Using Adamjay's test (see elsewhere on this forum).

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % - 43%
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model - Apple Intel Core Duo 15"
3) Operating System - OSX 10.4.5
4) CPU Make Model and Speed - 2 ghz Toshiba
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram (if you know) - 1 GB / DDR2 SDRAM
6) Soundcard (Stock or add on?, usb/firewire/pci ?) - RME Fireface
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know) - 5400rpm

cheers

J :)

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:16 pm
by hoffman2k
jimmynitcher wrote:Using Adamjay's test (see elsewhere on this forum).

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % - 43%
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model - Apple Intel Core Duo 15"
3) Operating System - OSX 10.4.5
4) CPU Make Model and Speed - 2 ghz Toshiba
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram (if you know) - 1 GB / DDR2 SDRAM
6) Soundcard (Stock or add on?, usb/firewire/pci ?) - RME Fireface
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know) - 5400rpm

cheers

J :)
how do you get a 2ghz toshiba in an intel mac? :wink:

Re: Macbook Pro performance test result

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:19 pm
by gregmcnichol
jimmynitcher wrote:Using Adamjay's test (see elsewhere on this forum).

1) Ableton Live CPU Meter % - 43%
2) Laptop/Desktop? Make/Model - Apple Intel Core Duo 15"
3) Operating System - OSX 10.4.5
4) CPU Make Model and Speed - 2 ghz Toshiba
5) Amount of Ram / Speed of Ram (if you know) - 1 GB / DDR2 SDRAM
6) Soundcard (Stock or add on?, usb/firewire/pci ?) - RME Fireface
7) Hard Disk Drive Speed (if you know) - 5400rpm

cheers

J :)
43%?! something sounds wrong what version of live are you using?

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:49 pm
by jimmynitcher
Apple use Toshiba drives and Live 5.2b4.

Doesn't exactly blow me away either...it would be great if I could discover I was doing something wrong.

J

Re: Macbook Pro performance test result

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:10 pm
by gomi
gregmcnichol wrote:43%?! something sounds wrong what version of live are you using?
i got that on my test box single core 47%ish..
p4 2.8ghz 10.4.4

nudge nudge wink wink..

sounds like something is wrong didn't i read that the dual core imac
was getting 20-29% or something?

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:22 pm
by gregmcnichol
yeah i thought someone already posted performence test of 25-30% was that fake? if it really does take it to 40's that sucks

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:38 pm
by Groovecake
Was this live 5.2 or Live running on Rosetta?

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:13 pm
by kenn michael
No, not Rosetta... it's the 5.2 beta. I got between 34-39% on my 2.0GHz MacBook Pro. Are the iMacs really that much faster to get a 26-29% score?

Other than that, I do have to say that I am ECSTATIC about the MacBook Pro. The graphics are sooo smooth and the GUI is so responsive even when doing intensive music work. Live runs a million times better than my old Powerbook, and feels just about the same as my Dual 2.5 G5.

Logic is simply amazing on this machine because of its optimized usage of dual procs.

When Live 6 comes out, it'll be bananas!

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:17 pm
by Groovecake
Hmmm...this is somewhat disappointing...though an upgrade to a MBP 1.83 would be quite a step up from my iBook 933 that won't even run AdamJay's test! 8O :lol:

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:28 pm
by Digi V
kenn michael wrote:No, not Rosetta... it's the 5.2 beta. I got between 34-39% on my 2.0GHz MacBook Pro. Are the iMacs really that much faster to get a 26-29% score?

Other than that, I do have to say that I am ECSTATIC about the MacBook Pro. The graphics are sooo smooth and the GUI is so responsive even when doing intensive music work. Live runs a million times better than my old Powerbook, and feels just about the same as my Dual 2.5 G5.

Logic is simply amazing on this machine because of its optimized usage of dual procs.

When Live 6 comes out, it'll be bananas!
i decided to download the beta because of this.

i'm getting about the same rates as the imacs.


i haven't seen it spike to 39 percent at all.

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:30 pm
by Groovecake
Digi - what are the specs of your MBP?

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:10 pm
by sweetjesus
can someone try Live out on this model computer and tell me how well it performs using AdamJay's test?

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/ ... 6000c.html

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:16 pm
by band-x
sweetjesus wrote:can someone try Live out on this model computer and tell me how well it performs using AdamJay's test?

http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/ ... 6000c.html
Lol

Not as fast as a Powerbook or imac if Mr Jobs has anything to do with it

:wink:

Re: Macbook Pro performance test result

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:30 pm
by mikHATz
gomi wrote:43%?! something sounds wrong what version of live are you using?
i got that on my test box single core 47%ish..
p4 2.8ghz 10.4.4

nudge nudge wink wink..
[/quote]

yeah, i got similar on my "test box single core" mine is a P4 2.4Ghz with 10.4.3.

MIK

Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:31 pm
by zfigz
woah, don't tell me the macbook pros are slower than the imacs...