> Mac G4/400 (AGP graphics) .... 61
> Mac G4/ with sonnet 1.2 ...........128 (those cards go for
> $265 now) Mac G5/dual 1.8........................185 (disappointing)
My iMac came in at 65.53
Which imac? The original 233 mhz g3, or the 1.6 ghz g5?
Why do you consider 185 disappointing?
As the other fellow said, these things are to be taken with a grain of salt.. or even a good sized hill of salt. But I was disappointed that $265 gives me a 100% increase, but $1800 only gives me 50% additional improvement. The benchmarks are clearly not taking into account the dual processors.
One tidbit that I learned from inspecting the reports was that the g4/400 had a level 1 and 2 caches, but the g4/1.2 7455 had three caches of different sizes. So its not just a matter of cranking the speed up on these chips, within the G4 family, there were evidently archetecture changes.
Hey Kamm, you're a good programmer. Maybe you can write a Kbench that will do audio tests ... read from 20-40 audio tracks in real time, do some heavy real time computations like done by soft synths, etc.