iMac or Old Mac - What Kind
Of Performance Gain Do You Get From Moving On From That Old
Machine
The iMac is the hottest machine Apple has come out with for
the average user in quite some time. It's unique design, simplicity
and low price make it very attractive. Many of you with
older machines are no doubt contemplating moving up and passing
that old Mac on to nephew, niece or school. We thought we would
provide you with some easy comparisons that will let you conveniently
assess just how much of a performance gain you would get from
an iMac upgrade. Below you will find the iMac's processor, floating
point, hardrive and graphics performance compared to 64 previous
non-G3 Macintoshes from the Quadra on up. Speed tests are based
on MacBench 4.0 results and all scores represent the percentage
of performance of a given machine when compared to the iMac
- which receives a score of 100 in all tests. For an example,
from the charts below we can see that the iMac is 25 times faster
in processor performance than the Quadra 900/25, 50 times faster
in floating point performance, nearly 4 times faster in hardrive
performance and 10 times faster in graphics performance. Feel
free to print out these charts to have when making your presentation
to whoever holds the purse-strings and use the words "productivity"
and "charitable donation" liberally!
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