hey,

i have a new aluminium macbook with 2 gig ram, 2.0 ghz, Geforce 9400 and 160 gig hd
i have an extremely low xbench score! 57!
and that's because my user interface test gives me only 15.73 points.
i actually noticed that my laptop is much slower than my alu imac (2 gig ram, 2.4 ghz, 320 gig hd, ATI 2600 HD ) and my gui is not so responsive, especially when multiple (light) programs are running

any suggestions? maybe a reinstall of leopard?

Why dont you post all your result page?

^^

try to create a new user and test from there before reinstalling leopard
also look at the activity monitor/console log wtf is happening/loading

i guess that you have qe/ci enabled?

system profiler says:

CI: Hardware Acceleration
QE: supported

And i'll post my whole system test after school

Results 120.11
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.5.5 (9F2114)
Physical RAM 2048 MB
Model MacBook5,1
Drive Type FUJITSU MHZ2160BH FFS G1
CPU Test 128.29
GCD Loop 226.88 11.96 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 107.46 2.55 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 88.20 2.91 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 163.19 28.42 Mops/sec
Thread Test 217.18
Computation 363.70 7.37 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 154.81 6.66 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 176.95
System 195.36
Allocate 233.00 855.65 Kalloc/sec
Fill 165.91 8067.04 MB/sec
Copy 198.53 4100.50 MB/sec
Stream 161.71
Copy 154.33 3187.62 MB/sec
Scale 154.53 3192.62 MB/sec
Add 170.51 3632.22 MB/sec
Triad 168.92 3613.64 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 148.70
Line 138.04 9.19 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 176.02 52.55 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 143.23 11.67 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 146.06 3.68 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 145.51 9.10 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 132.62
Spinning Squares 132.62 168.24 frames/sec
User Interface Test 206.59
Elements 206.59 948.13 refresh/sec
Disk Test 47.34
Sequential 60.43
Uncached Write 84.81 52.07 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 78.76 44.56 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 32.60 9.54 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 90.69 45.58 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 38.91
Uncached Write 14.78 1.57 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 90.60 29.00 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 68.28 0.48 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 105.55 19.59 MB/sec [256K blocks]


now i have good scores on the user interface test, but yesterday, i kept getting those insane low scores. But the laptop is still slow... (the read an write scores are low i think)

Is the sluggishness always present? Or does it occur after the macbook is on for a while? If it happens after you've been running the macbook for a while, you may be having an overheat issue. I've read about some heat issues with the aluminum macbook, and also about severe slowdowns after overheating on the new macbooks (All of them, including the Pro and Air). It's entirely possible that the macbook's speed is due to heat.

I don't trust XBench. It's a load of crap, in my opinion, especially the disk test part, which usually throws the whole test off. In fact many people just disregard the disk tests. If you do that, your Macbook seems fine.

For a good, CPU-only test, try Geekbench, or benchmark your favourite apps/games.

It's definitely not an overheating issue because the macbook stays very cold! (it's not like the firs macbook pro's ) but i hear the fans quite good... (better than when it was one day old)

But i got very low GUI scores in the first 5 bench marks and the gui still feels a bit sluggish (like when you do expose, the windows move a bit laggy...