MacWorld's iMac Core Duo Benchmarks Debunked?

madgunde writes "Looks like MacWorld magazine was a little premature in reporting that the new Apple iMac Core Duo doesn't live up to Apple's speed claims. The folks over at MacSpeedZone have done some performance testing of their own that debunks MacWorld's results and shows that the new iMac Core Duo DOES live up to the hype. Not only did the new iMac wipe the floor with the old model in their tests, but using MacWorld's own test methodology would allow MacSpeedZone to conclude that the new Intel iMac is almost as fast as a PowerMac Quad G5. " I see only one way to solve this: Give me one. I'll run WoW on it, and decide.

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WoW not such a good benchmarking program...

[eldavojohn]

I see only one way to solve this: Give me one. I'll run WoW on it, and decide.

I hate to break it to you, but the only lag you'll experience from either setup will probably be server side (depending on your realm). I mean, my P4 3.0 Ghz with 2 gigs of RAM and a 6600GT lags sometimes and runs fluid as real life at others.

Many of the users of WoW have done all they can to reduce the lag on their end. It's time for Blizzard to step up to the plate and use the massive amounts of money we give them monthly to get some better servers. I'm not so good with math but 5,000,000 users paying 12 dollars a month is .... $60 million?

Re:Two possible slashdot headlines from next week

[Spazntwich]

I hear they're going to be bundled with Duke Nukem Forever.