It's on a par with comparing the horsepower of your car with that of the boy racer down the street, but I found XBench and decided to see just how fast (or slow) my seemingly-plenty-fast-enough-for-me PowerBook really is.
Mac Mini figures all stolen from this great article.
| Xbench 1.2 | |||
| Test | Mac mini 1.42GHz G4 | Mac mini 1.66GHz Core Duo | PowerBook G4 17" 1.67GHz |
| CPU | 54.43 | 63.74 | 64.60 |
| Thread | 64.22 | 164.66 | 70.23 |
| Memory | 29.53 | 100.41 | 29.89 |
| Quartz | 57.19 | 64.96 | 59.61 |
| OpenGL | 75.29 | 184.24 | 82.07 |
| Disk Test | 26.67 | 32.67 | 37.98 |
| Overall Score | 42.23 | 63.08 | 47.04 |
I'm kinda happy that my 1.67GHz G4 manages to trounce a 1.66GHz Core Duo in the CPU stakes, but with thread, memory, and quartz benchmarks on a par with the old Mac Mini.. not good. The 100GB 7200rpm drive option (versus the default 120GB 5400rpm drive) seems to have paid off though! What surprises me is how the new Mac Mini with the supposedly nasty integrated video kicks butt on the OpenGL test, when my PowerBook has a Radeon 9700!
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