The name of this post was actually intended to be shortened to something comical yet meaningful but I found it slightly funny being longer, so I’ve kept it. I was going to do an ordered list counting down from ten to one, however I’ve decided to do this list slightly …
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 …
With my recent purchase of an iMac, I finally managed to dump my old ADVENT 3.2Ghz Pentium IV PC on my mum. She needed a new computer and was quite happy to have that one when I upgraded. Now, I’m not saying having only Macs is a bad thing, …
Finally! After the long, hard wait since the 9th of January, my iMac finally arrived! I was in an exam at the time but fortunately for me, there was someone in the house to accept the package.
Just a few minor points here - my exam was at 9am and I’m …
Was it just me or were the announcements at the keynote not all that fantastic? Just for a quick big feature round-up…
Apple tv released today, to be shipping in February (and renamed from the internal codename of iTV)
iPhone, to be released in the fourth quarter of this year (I’m …
If you’ve stumbled on to the Apple website recently, you’ll have noticed the new banner advert. I only found it myself because I accidentally clicked their logo after visiting the Higher Education Apple Store (pricing the Mac Pro versus the iMac). Despite, as some people believe, me living and …
This is the second fault to occur with this laptop of mine over the last three months. First my hard-drive completely failed and I had to fit a new one myself and now my backspace key doesn’t work. I’m using a two year old PowerBook G4, which has been solid …
