Macintosh Performance Guide: Virtual Memory on Apple MacBook Pro — Conclusions:
- Use the 64-bit kernel, because performance is far better;
- The MacBook Pro Core i7 is a lot faster than its predecessor, the Core 2 Duo;
- Fast solid state drives hugely outperform the fastest laptop hard drive, even when that hard drive is nearly empty;
- A RAID-0 stripe yields a significant boost in performance, with a 16K or 32K stripe size best
