Macbook Pro Santa Rosa Performance

pribeh_tom · Post by **pribeh_tom** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:18 am

Mammalux,

You know. I 'd like to see our test scores after using a firewire interface. Nightrider just scored 47% with a new santa rosa (2.6GHz) mbp using a motu ultralite.

I wish my fireface still worked. I'm going to try and get my hands on one soon and share the test results.

majestic · Post by **majestic** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:47 am

Machinate wrote:
dango wrote:i don't get how there can be such a harmless and expensive 3rd party solution to this problem; i mean, why wouldn't apple just implement something like this into the computer?
my wife wanted to change the icon of iCal in Leopard... can't be done without a bunch of hacking, either.

Hmmm...I just tried it under Leopard and it still works the way it has since OSX 10.1 - just do a get info and paste the new icon over the existing one. Worked fine on iCal.

Haven't noticed any performance issues on my MBP SR but then I usually use my desktop for music. Will do the test and post the numbers...

bleepsnbreaks · Post by **bleepsnbreaks** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 2:06 am

downloaded and will isntall tonight.
Dude, if this fixes my problem, you can have my first born.
I dont want it anyway

Lo-Fi Massahkah · Post by **Lo-Fi Massahkah** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:08 am

pribeh_tom wrote:
Lo-Fi Massahkah wrote:Does any of you know if the speed stepping sets in with the Mac Mini as well? I tried Coolbook last night and the CPU freq jumped between 2004 & 1002 mhz.

Didn't do the new performance test yet, though.

-M
Try coolbook. It will answer all your questions. Just download the demo. Once you have it running it should show you whether or not your processor is steppin'.

Is the "jumping" up & down an indicator that it might be? I'd think that the CPU would "land" on a lower frequenzy while not having a large load.

-M

thumperjack · Post by **thumperjack** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:27 am

what does it mean if you have the CPU set at 5 and the frequency jumps between 800mhz and 2400mhz really really fast?

pribeh_tom · Post by **pribeh_tom** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:44 am

thumperjack wrote:what does it mean if you have the CPU set at 5 and the frequency jumps between 800mhz and 2400mhz really really fast?

You should try throttling (high) or using only a single frequency setting (your highest).

zeropoint · Post by **zeropoint** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:51 am

Settings here are 2400Mhz at 1.1500v,
Medium Throttling and temp limit of
75 degrees C.

I haven't needed to touch anything else

Processor steps nicely between 1200Mhz and 2400Mhz as and when required.

timothyallan · Post by **timothyallan** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:13 am

Is there an alternative to coolbook? Sure enough, running it in demo mode gives me get a visual of why i get crackles and cpu jumps... and why my bootcamp performs 40% better

I don't really like his policy of only one re-activation as I love formatting and mucking with this thing.

I guess I could keep dishing out 10 bucks, but I'd also like something that didn't affect battery live negatively on my SR.

bigbadotis · Post by **bigbadotis** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:18 am

majestic wrote:
Machinate wrote:
dango wrote:i don't get how there can be such a harmless and expensive 3rd party solution to this problem; i mean, why wouldn't apple just implement something like this into the computer?
my wife wanted to change the icon of iCal in Leopard... can't be done without a bunch of hacking, either.
Hmmm...I just tried it under Leopard and it still works the way it has since OSX 10.1 - just do a get info and paste the new icon over the existing one. Worked fine on iCal.

Haven't noticed any performance issues on my MBP SR but then I usually use my desktop for music. Will do the test and post the numbers...

Hah. Can't believe people want to change the icon after all the hacking Apple had to do to get the correct date to show up in the dock when iCal wasn't loaded.

timothyallan · Post by **timothyallan** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:44 am

timothyallan wrote:Is there an alternative to coolbook? Sure enough, running it in demo mode gives me get a visual of why i get crackles and cpu jumps... and why my bootcamp performs 40% better

I don't really like his policy of only one re-activation as I love formatting and mucking with this thing.

I guess I could keep dishing out 10 bucks, but I'd also like something that didn't affect battery live negatively on my SR.

nvr mind, i bought the damn thing. Too frustrated to fak around.

thumperjack · Post by **thumperjack** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:22 pm

well i did the performance test without coolbook, and it read 63%-71%.
installed and payed for coolbook.
did the performance test and it reads a steady 46% after the initial jump to 53% on hitting play.
changed all the reverbs to high quality with 120% stereo and got a steady 53%.

Xbench went from 112 score (without coolbook) to 115.49 (with coolbook) with everything still running, 119.28 with all apps closed. i feel like my MBP just got a boob job.

timothyallan · Post by **timothyallan** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:25 pm

yeah, now osx is on par with my bootcamp partition. Lovin it!

Zerobae · Post by **Zerobae** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:28 pm

are you guys running santa rosa macbook pros? i do, and on installing coolbook i get the error "can't load coolbook driver". after that, the app opens, but the "control window" is just empty.

timothyallan · Post by **timothyallan** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:30 pm

yup SR 2.4ghz

Coolbook + leopard didnt work for me, but tiger does.

thumperjack · Post by **thumperjack** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 12:32 pm

Zerobae wrote:are you guys running santa rosa macbook pros? i do, and on installing coolbook i get the error "can't load coolbook driver". after that, the app opens, but the "control window" is just empty.

im on santa rosa and leopard.