[X4U] Negligible speed bumps...

[Zane H. Healy]

At 5:02 PM -0800 3/4/09, Randy B. Singer wrote:
>On Mar 4, 2009, at 4:29 PM, zapcat wrote:
>
>>Although Apple is touting the performance of its new iMac and Mac 
>>mini desktops, a new test shows that newer processors from Intel 
>>have had little impact on the computers' true speed.
>>...
>>I'm no expert but I don't think we've all been waiting this long 
>>for that kind of lackluster improvement.
>
>I don't know anything about the benchmarking program referred to in 
>the article you cited, but I personally will reserve judgement until 
>I see more real-world type benchmarking tests done by Macintouch and 
>Macworld.

I'm rather leery of those "results" myself.  I also see that they 
don't show any benchmarks on the systems that *I* am interested in. 
Namely the new 8-core Mac Pro.  I am determined to replace my G5 2x2 
with one of those, now I just need to figure out how to pay for it. 
:-(

Zane


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