So I got an Intel Mac

[Si Veteran]

Today my newest toy arrived, the 20" iMac Core Duo.

I am loving it so far, the universal binary apps are indeed way fast as we have been told. Apps under Rosetta are usable but it's not anything like the native ones.

Having owned a Mac in the past, the switch to OS X was not a huge surprise for me, but I am still looking for ways to do things that were so easy in Windows (thumbnails in finder? right click -> set as wallpaper?).

Just waiting for that hack to get XP installed on here now...

Now, a question I have for you guys is this - can I get the display to be blanked when the machine is being accessed via vnc? I've tried the built in server and osxvnc, and I can't seem to do it?

Here are a couple of pics, sorry for the poor quality :D

[tony-inpo]

Nice one mate looks great

[KeeperOfThePizza]

sweet, how much did you pay for that?

[AppleDave Veteran]

Can we get some benchmarks for it please?

[SolidSapphire]

nice, but why does the back of the stand look like that? plastic or something?

[Si Veteran]

sweet, how much did you pay for that?

It's the standard one on the store, ?1229

Can we get some benchmarks for it please?

Tell me what I need to do please, I know nothing about Mac benchmarks:DD

nice, but why does the back of the stand look like that? plastic or something?

Yeah I took the pic before I removed the cover.

[chisss]

it looks nice.. one uestion though... if you wanted to run windows xp on it then why didnt ou just buy a regular machine??? :wacko:

[Slimy]

Looks very slick on that glass table. Congrats on the buy.

[AppleDave Veteran]

Tell me what I need to do please, I know nothing about Mac benchmarks :D

Go here and download Xbench - run it - copy and paste the results and post!

[G4M3R]

Very nice.

[theyarecomingforyou]

Surely you'd need to clean the glass quite often with your arms resting on it? :unsure: Still, it looks amazing.

[DjmUK]

One thing I still don't understand. Why are people trying hard to get XP on the Mac system?

My Opinion

1.) It's cheaper to build your own custom system with higher specs;

2.) The hardware will be outdated very quickly and (1) seems like a cheaper option to upgrade;

3.) If I buy a mac (I will one day), then it will be exclusively for the Operating System (Mac 'greater than' XP);

4.) It's annoying that Mac OS X x86 isn't available, which is why the Mac Mini (Intel) system is what I'm looking for.

P.S.

That's a nice iMac you have their (20" too) :)

[Si Veteran]

Go here and download Xbench - run it - copy and paste the results and post!

Here you go :)

Results 56.51

System Info

Xbench Version 1.2

System Version 10.4.4 (8G1165)

Physical RAM 512 MB

Model iMac4,1

Drive Type WDC WD2500JS-40NGB2

CPU Test 76.77

GCD Loop 259.80 13.69 Mops/sec

Floating Point Basic 90.91 2.16 Gflop/sec

vecLib FFT 44.61 1.47 Gflop/sec

Floating Point Library 67.40 11.74 Mops/sec

Thread Test 200.07

Computation 181.25 3.67 Mops/sec, 4 threads

Lock Contention 223.26 9.60 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 96.96

System 111.85

Allocate 117.89 432.93 Kalloc/sec

Fill 108.27 5264.21 MB/sec

Copy 109.86 2269.07 MB/sec

Stream 85.57

Copy 73.24 1512.72 MB/sec

Scale 72.32 1494.13 MB/sec

Add 104.18 2219.23 MB/sec

Triad 103.47 2213.50 MB/sec

Quartz Graphics Test 68.46

Line 66.50 4.43 Klines/sec [50% alpha]

Rectangle 62.79 18.75 Krects/sec [50% alpha]

Circle 65.17 5.31 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]

Bezier 87.54 2.21 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]

Text 65.36 4.09 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 140.15

Spinning Squares 140.15 177.78 frames/sec

User Interface Test 17.16

Elements 17.16 78.75 refresh/sec

Disk Test 64.46

Sequential 90.47

Uncached Write 107.54 66.03 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 95.50 54.03 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 65.56 19.19 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 108.82 54.69 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 50.07

Uncached Write 18.75 1.99 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Write 121.87 39.02 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Uncached Read 93.06 0.66 MB/sec [4K blocks]

Uncached Read 131.36 24.37 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Thanks guys, yeah I do need to clean the desk a lot, once every couple of days it seems. Not that much of a biggie though :p

I don't need to have XP running on here, I have a machine running x64 too. It would be nice to not need to turn it on when I need a specific Windows app though :)

[crazzy88ss]

hmm... interesting. My eMac's bench marks are similar or greater than yours for the disc/video tests... But anything processor related is destroyed :)

[Rudy]

lucky you, i cant wait to get my macbook

[NienorGT]

look TOO NICE on a glass table O_O

[craybox]

nice purchase Simon, I am hopefully gonna sell my G4 Dual 800 & ACD20" this week so that i can buy one.

could you let us know what it's like at loading an office app or loading UNISON just some idea how quick it is in Rosetta

something that i could compare to my current Mac so i know its worth the money ? TIA

[AppleDave Veteran]

I am running an iMac G5.....my test results were a lot higher than the intel one...

Results	77.37	
	System Info		
		Xbench Version		1.2
		System Version		10.4.4 (8G32)
		Physical RAM		1536 MB
		Model		PowerMac12,1
		Processor		PowerPC G5 @ 1.90 GHz
			L1 Cache		64K (instruction), 32K (data)
			L2 Cache		512K @ 1.90 GHz
			Bus Frequency		634 MHz
		Drive Type		Maxtor 6L160M0
	CPU Test	75.16	
		GCD Loop	46.47	2.45 Mops/sec
		Floating Point Basic	95.51	2.27 Gflop/sec
		vecLib FFT	97.67	3.22 Gflop/sec
		Floating Point Library	91.01	15.85 Mops/sec
	Thread Test	53.01	
		Computation	49.30	998.71 Kops/sec, 4 threads
		Lock Contention	57.32	2.47 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
	Memory Test	76.30	
		System	71.35	
			Allocate	99.52	365.47 Kalloc/sec
			Fill	66.12	3214.89 MB/sec
			Copy	59.26	1223.92 MB/sec
		Stream	81.99	
			Copy	81.43	1681.91 MB/sec [G5]
			Scale	81.70	1687.95 MB/sec [G5]
			Add	82.65	1760.62 MB/sec [G5]
			Triad	82.19	1758.25 MB/sec [G5]
	Quartz Graphics Test	101.19	
		Line	93.36	6.22 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
		Rectangle	88.17	26.32 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
		Circle	89.53	7.30 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
		Bezier	90.54	2.28 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
		Text	194.42	12.16 Kchars/sec
	OpenGL Graphics Test	112.67	
		Spinning Squares	112.67	142.93 frames/sec
	User Interface Test	62.14	
		Elements	62.14	285.18 refresh/sec
	Disk Test	96.64	
		Sequential	119.08	
			Uncached Write	122.35	75.12 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	121.61	68.80 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	104.10	30.47 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	131.78	66.23 MB/sec [256K blocks]
		Random	81.32	
			Uncached Write	45.02	4.77 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Write	117.69	37.68 MB/sec [256K blocks]
			Uncached Read	94.26	0.67 MB/sec [4K blocks]
			Uncached Read	127.05	23.57 MB/sec [256K blocks]

[Max Veteran]

We need Xbench for Intel chips! Pronto! :p

[Rudy]

We need Xbench for Intel chips! Pronto!:p:p

it's been compiled for intel but i dont think the results are accurate

[AppleDave Veteran]

We need Xbench for Intel chips! Pronto!:p:p

Simon posted his

[Si Veteran]

I am running an iMac G5.....my test results were a lot higher than the intel one...

Interesting :s

[AppleDave Veteran]

Interesting :s

Try closing all programs and run it again....thats what I did.

[Si Veteran]

I did that :|

[Rudy]

Try closing all programs and run it again....thats what I did.

it wont be much different, the benchmarks done with xbench are all showing around the same score, but if you do realy life benchmarks then the intel is faster