“Apple quietly released new MacBooks last week which feature (among other things) the Santa Rosa chipset and, for some models, a slightly faster processor,” reports Primate Labs, developer of Geekbench, a cross-platform benchmark for Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows.
“While the new MacBooks have only modest processor performance gains over the previous MacBooks, the Santa Rosa chipset helps the new MacBooks achieve much more impressive performance gains over the previous MacBooks; memory performance is up almost 15% while stream performance (which relies heavily on memory) is up almost 25%,” Primate Labs reports.
The comparison pits the following systems against each other:
MacBook (Mid 2007)
• Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.00GHz
• 1.00 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
• Mac OS X 10.5 (Build 9A581)
MacBook (Late 2007)
• Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.20GHz
• 1.00 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
• Mac OS X 10.5 (Build 9A3110)
Full article with benchmarks here.