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2012 MacBook Pro 13 Inch Performance Review: Boot up, Benchmarks & Speed Tests!

2012-06-21
hey guys john here with TLD with the performance results of the 2012 13 inch 2.5 gigahertz macbook pro this is the baseline 1199 model just like you get it from Apple no upgrades whatsoever and due to the fact that it has a 5400 rpm hard drive it's going to boot up a little slower compared to a MacBook Air or the retina MacBook Pro for example but if you guys want to see a video on how to upgrade it to an SSD it's actually pretty easy so let me know by hitting that like button and I'll put that video together for you guys so we're going to wrap it up I think it boots up just under 30 seconds and there we go so it's not horrible but it's definitely not the fastest so next we're going to hop on to disk speed test to see how fast the hard drive operates that you can see it's not amazing results we're getting nearly 70 megabytes a second if that was bumped up to a 7200 rpm hard drive you'd probably get around a hundred two hundred ten megabytes a second if you bumped that up to an SSD were probably talking around three to four hundred to even five hundred megabytes a second so again if you guys want to see that video let me know and we'll make it happen captain next up we were hopping on to Geekbench and this is the 64 bit version what this does is test the entire system performance and we're able to obtain a score seven thousand four hundred and eighty two which is not bad by any means for the next test we are using nova bench which isn't as accurate as Geekbench but it is free in the Mac App Store so if you guys want to download this yourself let me know your results compared to mine shoot me a comment down below and for this system we got a score of 596 but if you look towards the bottom you can see the right speed is kind of slow so I bet you if we upgrade this to an SSD those scores will improve as well for the next set of tests we are using Cinebench 11.5 which not only tests the CPU but the GPU as well so we're testing out the intel HD 4000 graphics we got a score of nearly 19 frames per second which isn't too bad for integrated graphics for the CPU we got a score of two point nine zero and below that you can see there are two cores four threads what that means is there are two physical cores on the CPU but the Mac OS will actually see and utilize it as a virtual quad-core machine which is actually pretty cool next up we got Final Cut Pro 10 and what I did was use the exact same project as I did for the retina MacBook Pro test if you guys missed that video I have it as a video response down below so it is a 30 second 1080p clip export to h.264 and it exported it in just under 56 seconds and I believe the retina MacBook Pro did the exact same task in 29 seconds now for those of you guys who saw the retina performance video I close the video out with an SSD dress test where I open up every single application on the computer that won't handle that no problem this one not so much and again that is due to the slower 5400 rpm hard drives like to talk about at the beginning of this video if you guys would like to see an upgrade video on this machine upgrading the RAM as well as an SSD let me know by hitting that like button and I will make that video happen for you guys so as always thank you guys for watching if you guys are brand new to the channel and you're watching for the first time make sure the subscribe suitum is any more coverage I got a conveniently placed annotation right here go and click that and aside from that I will see you guys later you
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