Benchmarking results: Is Snow Leopard really any faster than Leopard?

I'm disappointed in Snow Leopard, all hype and no bite sad to say. I run both Windows and Mac machines, the improvements from Leopard to Snow Leopard as far as speed is not "that" noticeable, programs I run regularly on OSX take the same time to start up as before the upgrade ..... so I ask WHERE is this "major" speed improvement that Apple was bragging about? Sure it's faster on startup and shutdown but really that means squat in my life as I only start up once a day and only shut down once a day, so where's the huge benefit in that ??? I could care less that time machine is 80% faster, I don't use it anyway.

Being a user of both Mac and Windows OS's for many years I am more than qualified to say the following:

Microsoft has totally outdone Apple this year with their release of Windows 7, Win7 is the first OS I have seen that "actually" runs much faster on existing hardware, noticeably faster. I think Apple missed the boat this year concentrating more on producing a fancy looking product box. Every single Windows PC we have upgraded to Windows 7 runs faster and better on the same hardware.

Using an old copy of Geekbench 4.0 (to avoid differences in versions between benchmarks I've done on earlier machines), my 2009 Mini's overall score was 228 in 10.5, 235 in 10.6. Not a lot of improvement, but enough to notice some "snap" to things.

Please remove this article.

a response to a few questions in your comments:

why is it slightly faster ?
well, probably because benchmarks aren't reliable on a multitasking computer, unless they are not interrupted at all.

time machine isn't the only factor, a benchmark can be slowed down by spotlight updates, or any other task, even an open window in the Finder.

the author should at least have closed the finder, and all other unnecessary processes, before testing the hardware, at least he would have had a valuable result: that the hardware runs at the same speed as before, what a surprise !

but, comparing OS's with these tests and publishing an article about it is completely misleading, to say the least.

Bullshit, you aren't testing the OS here, there should actually not be a difference at all, or very very marginal.

to test if snow leopard is faster than leopard you should test the OS, the file system, memory management (not just access to ram, but memory allocation)

loading of apps, finder file copies etc !

what a stupid article !

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I'd have paid the $29 upgrade just for the significant decrease in shutdown time. That's the kind of real-world improvement that doesn't make for sexy ad copy, but nearly every day I'm rushing to make the shuttle to the train station, and those seconds seem like hours!

Use Graphs to compare!!! Please!

I can say that in our PowerMac and our MacBook it seems faster. It seems much faster on the PowerMac where applications spring to life faster and functionality also seems faster.