User Profile for Tesselator

Haxial Benchmark 1.0 (Mac OS 9, Mac OS X)

Total waste of time to even open the file.  

I think this was someone's first program and was an excersize in opening a custom window. It's usefulness is almost zero. [alert admin]

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Wednesday, September 19 2007 @ 07:27 AM PDT

Geekbench 2.0.6 (Mac OS X)

Much Better Than XBench!!!  

Not only is this benchmarker supported on a plethora of platforms (Not just Mac or PC) but it gives some pretty interesting information about your system and CPU. It doesn't weight it's scores on drive speed that can vary greatly even across otherwise identical systems! Nice! The results can be compared between hundreds of thousands of systems already benchmarked and recorded for your browsing pleasure. Extremely small footpring and absurdly easy to use! Highly recommended over xbench! [alert admin]

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Wednesday, September 19 2007 @ 06:09 AM PDT

Xbench 1.3 (Mac OS X)

1.3 Still featurless and uninformative!!!  

XBench seems to be all that there is for Mac as benchmarking goes.

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? [alert admin]