Intel Mac Benchmark Smorgasbord

I forgot to mention, we just published a XXXX-load of benchmarks on the new Intel-based iMacs and the MacBook Pro, in comparison with the Macologist staff’s machines, from an iMac G4 all the way up to a quadcore PowerMac G5. The article is HOT apparently– we’ve only had it up three days and it has gotten almost 30K (yes 30,000) unique hits. See the secret is quantity = quality =x. Haha, Actually it was such a bear to do all of these benchmarks, and coordinate the staff, I’m happy to have what we have, and just left it at that, but the FUN part is that I’ve tried to provide crystal clear instructions so that you can run all of the benchmarks yourself. I’d like to do an update soon, as Cinebench got updated (for the 3rd time since we began testing for this article: we had started with CB2003, then we had an internal Universal Binary, then they came out with the UB 9.5, and now they have some OpenGL optimizations), we also had some tips on running a compiled SciMark (rather than relying on Java’s JIT– just in time– compiling), heard about an interesting benchmark called GeekBench(MBP results here), and need to finish up some more rigs on the Photoshop benchmark. Man, the iTunes vs. QT player finding was really neat too…

Go take a look: Macologist’s Intel Mac Benchmark Smorgasbord.

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