Existing users, 
It's clearly the worst benchmarking application I've ever used on ANY platform. Even ancient Amiga or Windows 2 benchmarking utilities kick the crud out of this. It supplies you with no interesting information and only runs stupidly simple non-real-world tests. It doesn't know and can't test multiple CPU cores (single core tests ONLY) so it's not even good for that really. It might be ok for testing various drive configurations but that would be about it.
XBench 1.3 is just another in a series of let-downs. When will Mac users get a REAL benchmarking suite?
XBench, SpeedTools, Power Fractal - hernandezpvd
While you might find Xbench useless... I find it quite informative. It allows be to both compare my many Macs to one another with the same benchmark tool, as well as check status of one machine to see where the slow-down areas are.However, there are BETTER apps out nowadays... If you don't like Xbench, maybe look at Power Fractal 1.4.1 which was recently updated in March of 2008. It's better in my opinion than Xbench, and still FREE! Also look into SpeedTools Utilities 2.8.1.
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Saturday, May 24 2008 @ 12:15 AM PDT