Someones mac mini

I’ve run xbench on my iBook, and this page compares my results with those of a core duo mac mini. I figure that the new mini’s will be more or less similar to the upcoming “macbook” (if that is what they will be called) performance wise, so might make an interesting comparison.

A lot of the tests are crazily faster on the core duo and some scores look impressive, but I doubt would offer anything noticeable to the user. Things like the thread test. Oh and memory speeds, i’ve seen this a lot on the pc world, changing motherboards that use much much faster memory but end up not actually offering any noticeable improvement when doing things. I.E. Going from DDR to DDR2 dual channel, you just don’t feel it.

Of things that do matter, the floating point test is almost twice the speed! I Wonder what “computation” actually measures ‘cos it whips my g4’s ass.

Unfortunately, it looks like i’m right to be pissed that they’re still using wanky HD’s in the mini though. The overall HD performance is basically the same as my iBook, which is so so not good enough. In fact my iBook gets 1 point higher. Thats silly.

UPDATE:
I’ve had a further play with the xbench results site and have come to the conclusion that their HD tests are flawed and completely inaccurate. According to them my ibook’s HD even beats some iMac Core Duo’s, hmm I don’t think so somehow.

lol, here’s an interesting one.