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MPG Table of Contents   Page 1: Introduction to the MacBook Pro Quad-Core Page 2: Choosing which MacBook Pro Model Page 3: How and Why I Configured my MacBook Pro Page 4: Thunderbolt on the MacBook Pro Page 5: Configuration As Tested Page 6: Apple’s 128GB Solid State Drive (SSD) Page 7: Mac OS X Support for SSD TRIM Page 8: SATA Performance With OWC Mercury Extreme Pro SSD Page 9: SSD Performance With Random Data Page 10: MemoryTester SHA1 Performance Page 11: MemoryTester CPU Performance Page 12: MemoryTester Memory Performance Page 13: Results With Photoshop CS5 Page 14: RAW Import with Adobe Lightroom 3 Page 15: RAW Import with Apple Aperture Page 16: RAW to TIF with Bibble Pro Page 17: RAW to TIF With Canon Digital Photo Professional Page 18: RAW to TIF With PhaseOne CaptureONE Pro Page 19: RAW to TIF With RAW Developer Page 20: Focus Stacking with Helicon Focus Page 21: Panorama With PTGui Pro 64-Bit Page 22: Image Scaling With PhotoZoom Pro Page 23: Encoding Video with Handbrake Page 24: 2011 MacBook Pro: Will Apple Fix the 6G SATA BUGS? Page 25: Conclusions on 2011 Apple MacBook Pro

RAW to TIF With RAW Developer

Batch export of 128 Canon 21-megapixel CR2 RAW files to TIF.

RAW Developer version 1.9.0 is very well written to take advantage of multiple CPU cores.

Similar to the Lightroom 3 results, the 2011 MacBook Pro is breathing hot on the heels of the 3.33GHz 6-core Mac Pro, and it easily beats the 2.8GHz Mac Pro.

The 2010 MacBook Pro take 184% longer than the 2011 model. The reason for this disparity is unclear. A 100% difference is plausible, but perhaps the extra cache memory on the 2011 MacBook Pro helps.

Test machines used my preferred SSDs, see the test configuration. Hard drive users will see slightly degraded results over those shown here.