I had yesterday the chance to play with a Macbook, Core 2 Duo at 2 GHz, 1 GB RAM. While the machine feels fast, I was really surprised when I launched the included Big Bang Backgammon. I had open the Activity Monitor and I saw both processors hovering at around or a little more 50% each! There were no processes eating up CPU cycles in the background (without the game open CPU usage was about 0.5-1.5%).
Now the same game on my very old Powerbook (867 MHz, 640 MB RAM, Geforce 420), takes from 60 to 70% of processing power and the graphics are fluid. And this is with 7-10% background processes.
Has anyone a reasonable explanation for that? What kind of optimizations this game has? Even if the GMA 950 is so bad (but worse than an old lame dinosaur of a Geforce 420
?!), can this explain the result?
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