Geekbench: Speed test your Mac against Windows and Linux PCs

LPZ:

Your relatively low result of 161.1 and the fact that your CPU is identified as

Genuine Intel(R) CPU 1500

suggests that you a missing a recent firmware update. Get it, and run the test again!

Jack Cox:

"Shame your PC-using friends (maybe)."

Given that, in the scores listed in the above graphic, the PCs* absolutely whipped the arse of every Mac tested, this would seem unlikely.

A more accurate line would have been: "Be ashamed by your inferior choice of platform, but then turn and petulantly point to how ugly the other guy's laptop is."

*Except the AMD K6 - kudos to Mac users for beating a CPU from 10 years ago.

Julian Huff:

Hey Jack,


Are you new, or just 12? Note that the Mac tested was a LAPTOP against desktops on the PC side and didn't really get "whipped' (not that much of a margin). Also consider not running the same apps.

Also, sorry to point out but the new Macs use Intel standard logic boards, etc. so the Macs will no longer even subjectively be incomparable to PC's. Let's try a MBP running WINDOWS against the same machines or better yet, other PC laptops. I've already done some benchmarks at work and the MBP 2.16 dual core beats the new Lenovo Thinkpad T60 by a good bit. Not a HUGE difference again, but how do you PC bigots like seeing an APPLE that can run Windows as fast or faster than your mainstream brand PC's? :) Get used to it buddy, the old days of saying 'well they're just faster in Photoshop" or Pentiums are better than PPC no matter what are long gone and OVER! :)

Julian Huff:

Oh yeah, one more thing. How many of these PC's can run TWO real and USEFUL mainstream OS'es in an dead easy to configure dual boot config or better yet, from within the host OS and not sacrifice anything saving 3D graphic support? (for now).

Heck, I can have my mac and still secure it as a Windows PC for my work's DOD secure network. Try THAT on any other brand box! Oh yeah...you CAN'T. :)

Larry:

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Jack Cox:

"Are you new, or just 12? Note that the Mac tested was a LAPTOP against desktops on the PC side and didn’t really get “whipped’ (not that much of a margin)."

Same CPU mate. Core Duo is derived from Pentium M architecture. One of the big achievements of the CPU is that it's almost exactly the same CPU in a desktop or a notebook, due to great leaps forward in power consumption.

The only way your statement would make sense is if the MacBook benchmarks were run on battery power. Educate yourself before spouting drivel.

By the way - no, I'm not new around here. You may not have noticed, given the lame stories lately, but this isn't a Mac site. Go back to Digg where you can talk out of your arse about things you know nothing about - and get modded up for it.

"Also consider not running the same apps."

Then this benchmark is pointless and tells you nothing.

"Also, sorry to point out but the new Macs use Intel standard logic boards, etc. so the Macs will no longer even subjectively be incomparable to PC’s."

Exactly. So stop gloating. For years we were told that Macs were better because of teh ZOMG PPC!!! Then Apple does an about face, and all of a sudden Intel x86 is the way to go.

Feel free to point out that they're the same architecture, but it just proves that your choice of platform is unrelated to superior performance.

So why buy a Mac? Oh right - OS X. 'The most advanced OS in the world' - even says so on the Apple site... LOL

"I’ve already done some benchmarks at work and the MBP 2.16 dual core beats the new Lenovo Thinkpad T60 by a good bit."

Yeah, T60 is a 2.0ghz CPU. Little equation for you guys who are new to having real CPUs in your systems:

same CPU + lower clock = less performance

See how that works? I wouldn't expect a Mac user to know how to determine the CPU frequency. After all, one of them read in a press release that Geekbench is real benchmarking software, and wrote this piece.

"Oh yeah, one more thing. How many of these PC’s can run TWO real and USEFUL mainstream OS’es in an dead easy to configure dual boot config or better yet, from within the host OS and not sacrifice anything saving 3D graphic support? (for now)."

If I can't, then you can't. OS X is neither useful nor mainstream. I'd characterise it as a toy built on top of Unix.

"Heck, I can have my mac and still secure it as a Windows PC for my work’s DOD secure network. Try THAT on any other brand box! Oh yeah…you CAN’T. :)"

READ MY LIPS: OS X is for lamewads who can't work their VCR let alone a computer. I DON'T WANT TO USE IT SO IT ISN'T AN ADVANTAGE.

In other words, STFU then go DIAF.

Dan Warne:

Jack Cox wrote: "By the way - no, I'm not new around here. You may not have noticed, given the lame stories lately, but this isn't a Mac site."

It's a Mac site as much as any other operating system or PC architecture Jack.

APC is a personal computing site, which includes PC, Mac, Windows, Linux and OS X.

CandTsmac:

This Mac vs. Windows stuff is lame. Save it for another forum. This is 4 benchmarking not flaming. Each to their own and let it be. Sheesh.

Renegade:

HA mac hardware is over priced, over rated hardware for degenerates. Software wise I dont care if OSX is better or worse. All I want to say about software is that next time you use your argument about not having as many viruses is check your market share. People who write viruses want to create an impact and not leave three people crying that their garage band project got ruined.

But dont ever tell me who has the better hardware. The only way you buys can match my specs is with a power PC that has been upgraded. Which will set you back a heck of alot.

Renegade:

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Chargrilled:

I am sick of the Mac vs. PC argument. I am sick of all of you Mac freaks! Please do not say your Mac is some piece of technologically advanced machine. You Mac people suck. You are an extreme minority. Macs don't get viruses because people don’t care about Macs. If Macs were popular yeah they'd get viruses but the fact is no one cares about them.

Macs are based on hype. You see Steve Jobs (apple ceo) rave on in Apple's web casts and how they are coming out with new hardware etc. It's just plain boring. You people are a crappy little minority and you always will be, and hopefully one day I won't have to keep reading about Macs because they will be discontinued.