I wanted to see how 10.6 compared to 10.9, when both were running 4 GB of RAM. I then imported the original MOV into iMovie HD, and the 4 GB made a big improvement, cutting nearly two minutes of the processing time. Exporting a high definition MOV which was created on my iPhone 4s down to an m4v took around the same time. In terms of processing video files, the 4 GB made a smaller difference. ITunes encoded the same AIFF to an 192kb/s at around the same time. Audacity opened in half the time, importing the MP3 was 20% quicker, and exporting that same MP3 to AIFF was nearly twice as quick. Upping from 2 GB to 4 GB in Snow Leopard did make a difference when it came to processing large files. Snow Leopardįirst lets compare Snow Leopard running 2 GB and Snow Leopard 4 GB. This took some time as I had to perform the tests in Mavericks, reboot in to Snow Leopard and perform the tests with 4 GB RAM installed and then shutdown and take it down to 2 GB RAM and once again performed the tests. Import that 655 MB video in to iMovie HD.Copy that original 655 MB video to another partition.Export 655 MB high def video created from my iPhone 4s to m4v in QuickTime.Exported that MP3 from Audacity to an AIFF file.Imported an 83 MB, 86 minute 128kb/s MP3 in to Audacity.
So for further testing I did the following: Some readers have suggested a simple boot up and shut down, along with loading a couple of small apps, doesn’t show true performance, and I needed to stress the processor, RAM, and hard drive, via some audio and video editing to give a true indication of speed. Then I compared my MacBook running OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard with 2 GB RAM, Snow Leopard with 4 GB RAM, and finally OS X 10.9 Mavericks running 4 GB RAM. I started off comparing my wife’s 2006 Core Duo iMac with my Early 2009 MacBook. Following on from my previous two articles, I ran further tests on my MacBook to see how it performs under different RAM and different versions of OS X and against an original Intel iMac.īefore you read this, you should check out my previous articles, Intel iMac vs MacBook: The Snow Leopard Challenger and MacBook Test: 2 GB vs 4 GB RAM, OS X 10.6 vs 10.9.
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