Instead, I’ll share some general insights revealed by the testing results, and borne out by my experience with each system. Because I ran these tests myself, and my testing setup is far from ideal, I’m not going to report on the exact benchmark results. On the MacBook Pro, this wasn’t possible, so I went ahead and tested in my user account, with my usual suite of login items but without any other applications running. On the Mac Pro, I used a separate partition with a totally stock OS X 10.5.5 installation. To the extent I could, I made the OS X side of the test setup as clean as possible. So yes, I’m tired of installing and updating Windows! If you’re counting at home, that’s two versions of Windows on two machines in three different virtualization applications, or a total of 12 Windows installations (on which I ran multiple benchmark tests, multiple times). On each machine, I installed (as new virtual machines) versions of XP Pro and Vista Business (as well as Ubuntu Linux, though I didn’t run any Linux benchmarks) in Fusion, Parallels, and VirtualBox. I tested on both a 2.66GHz Mac Pro quad core with 4GB of RAM and a 2.5GHz 15-inch MacBook Pro with 2GB of RAM.
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