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I can't understand the results

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Contributed by: davidasta1 Wednesday, June 27 2007 @ 01:50 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: YES

If you take a look in the "Results Comparison Site" (http://db.xbench.com/) and you order by "Average Score", the results are a bit unbelievable.

How is possible that a Mac mini (Intel) is more powerful than a MacBook Pro and MacBook?

How is possible that an AppleTV is more powerful than a iMac G5 and a Mac mini (PPC)?

And looking inside the models, how is possible that a MacBook with similar results than mine, even worse in some cases, have a better performance, more than 30.68%?

Compare, for example "Macbook" MacBook vs "DAG Computer" MacBook.

Are the results absolutely trustworthy?

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If you look at the individual tests and software versions, you'll see why - xapplimatic soft

There are lots of reasons for that now.. Particular items to note are look at which OS versions are running. Some are massively more optimized for graphics like Open GL than others and graphics power more heavily weights than anything it seems with XBench. I find now running OS 10.6 on a MacBook Core Duo (only 32-bit) I get astronomically higher scores due to the Open GL test running at an insane 270 frames per second now!

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