Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 23rd Feb 2006 18:33 UTC, submitted by jfpoole
Geek Patrol benchmarked a MacBook Pro and a PowerBook G4. Not surprisingly, they concluded: "The MacBook Pro outperformed the PowerBook G4 in almost every benchmark. Since all of the MacBook Pro's baseline scores are over 100, it even outperformed our baseline system, a Power Mac G5 1.6GHz! The only benchmark where the PowerBook G4 outperformed the MacBook Pro, Stdlib Allocate, depends more on library performance than raw hardware performance. If you're upgrading from a PowerBook G4 (or even an early Power Mac G5), you'll certainly notice how much faster the MacBook Pro is, especially with multi-threaded applications."
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2005-07-17
Sure, that's more informative, thanks. I don't doubt that new Intel processors are faster but I'd like to know how much faster they are. Syntetic benchmarks are not that great for showing exactly performance in Photoshop.