iMac Benchmark

Well, I was asked for it and here it is. I used a program called Xbench and these are the results:

Results 108.89
System Info
Xbench Version 1.3
System Version 10.4.8 (8L2127)
Physical RAM 2048 MB
Model iMac6,1
Drive Type ST3750640AS Q
CPU Test 121.04
GCD Loop 275.00 14.50 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 132.50 3.15 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 97.12 3.20 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 86.46 15.06 Mops/sec
Thread Test 233.19
Computation 213.73 4.33 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 256.54 11.04 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 130.23
System 134.16
Allocate 128.54 472.03 …

Published:
February 1st, 2007
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6

MacHeist Unlocks TextMate

Previously I posted an article discussing all of the apps in the MacHeist Final Bundle. Towards the bottom of that article I mentioned that there were two locked applications, NewsFire and TextMate. These two were going to be unlocked only when the money donated to charity reached $50,000 and …

Published:
December 15th, 2006
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0

Heist #2

After a lovely, yet short, heist I got a couple of brand new apps to play with! What am I on about? MacHeist, of course! As I’m sure many of you in the Mac community will already know, this is an online ‘game’ created by the Mac entrepreneur …

Published:
November 20th, 2006
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2

macZOT’s Myztery MegaZOT

Well, it’s passed the fourty eight hours that macZOT asked me to wait, but I’ve finally got all of my serial numbers for the applications.

For those interested, the final bundle of applications were:

Pzizz Sleep
iClip
Connoisseur
PhotoPrinto
X-Words Deluxe
RadioLover
Ancient Hearts and Spades
FolderBrander
EasyCrop + SnapNDrag
ScreenSaver …

Published:
May 30th, 2006
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0