The Real Snow Leopard Speed Tests →

Hardware benchmarks can only tell so much about what something feels like in real world usage. Perry over at AppleSource DevBlog has done some real world speed tests, on freshly installed Macs. The results are pretty astonishing. He adds

As you can see, Snow Leopard is A LOT faster in just about every basic task. Some tasks, such as waking heavy apps from being open but inactive for 12+ hours, are just insanely quicker. Other tasks are just a smidgeon faster, but multiplied by a few times each day over a couple of years, the time saved adds up quickly. Getting info on a big folder to figure out its size, searching within Mail.app, Spotlight indexes and searches, everything feels genuinely snappier.

I haven’t installed Snow Leopard yet because Apple India thinks we Indians use Macs just to look at the shiny casing. Four weeks couldn’t go by sooner.