Three-quarters as fast as a G3/300 is still very, very fast Of our so-called "friends" would loan us one for testing. Despite our best efforts, neither Apple nor any An iMac may or may not be three-quarters as fast as a Power.
To have more memory, and use the Default setting in the MemoryĬontrol Panel to set an optimum disk cache As the MacBench 5.0 disk test shows, it really does pay.To try MacBench 5.0 as well, and got these results. We then ran several benchmarks, underĪlthough we had rejected it earlier, we were curious, and decided (instead of the "fresh out of the box" combination of 32 megabytes of Of memory (for a total of 96 megabytes) and installing Mac OS 8.5 We also decided to retest the iMac after adding 64 megabytes Memory Control Panel), AppleTalk to On, and video to Millions ofĬolors. The disk cache set to Default (by pressing the Default button in the These "Norton settings." We then created another set of settings with Since these are not ideal for an iMac, we dubbed To 128K, that AppleTalk should be off, and that the video should be It does have a few quirks: it suggests the disk cache should be set Recommend it, but the biggest one is that it covers older machines.
Symantec's System Info 4.0, part of Norton Utilities for "standard," making it very difficult to make comparisons with older In Version 5.0, forĮxample, the Power Macintosh G3/300 is given a score of 100 as the Impossible to do longitudinal comparisons. Keeps "renormalizing" the benchmark with every release, making it Pi Mac Bench," Washington Apple Pi Journal, Is more-or-less OK, but Washington Apple Pi Labs prefers our own Macīench (see " Introducing: Washington Apple MacBench 5.0, by Ziff-Davis Publishing Co. The most widely quoted benchmark in the Macintosh world is Standards all the time, even when the standards become outdated or To oranges, do you compare color? Texture? Vitamins? Taste? BallisticĬharacteristics when you throw them at bad mimes? Do you use the same Home About Membership Calendar Events Journal Help Community Resources Whimsy Twitter Facebook iMac Benchmarks: Quick Comparisons © 1998 Washington Apple Pi Labs Washington Apple Pi Journal, January/February 1999,īenchmarks are wishy-washy things.
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