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New iMac, Mac Mini Benchmarks Show Changes Are Slight

Posted by timothy on from the increment-weather dept.

jfpoole writes "Primate Labs has posted some preliminary benchmarks of the new iMacs and Mac minis. They found that processor speed is virtually unchanged between the older and newer models. Clearly these new Macs are minor updates rather than the major upgrades many Mac users were hoping for." As reader olddotter points out, there are changes, also slight, to the new Mini's case.

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  1. Video bench? by Drizzt+Do'Urden · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What about a video benchmark between the old 2Ghz MacMini and the new one? The main change in this machine was chipset/video related.

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  2. Re:test the video in the $1,199.00 $1,499.00 ones by kTag · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You'll have to look for a while as the Mac Pro is the only PC available today on the market with a Nehalem processor. But keep shouting, somebody might believe you.

  3. Benchmarks without an app in mind are useless. by lancejjj · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They found that processor speed is virtually unchanged between the older and newer models.

    I recently bought some Sun servers. My colleagues told me they were "very slow", but since I had a loaner pair in-house, I decided to benchmark them just for a "baseline".

    I benchmarked them, and found that these new machines were the fastest I could buy in class.

    Were my colleagues wrong? The answer is no - its just that their benchmarks were useless for my application. Their application's needs were quite different than mine. Their app was FP intense, and mine was memory i/o intense.

    I ended up buying the machine they didn't buy. They passed them up because they were slow. But I bought them because they were fast.