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Mac Performance In The Raw - Mac Pro Quad Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz versus iMac G4 1.0 GHz 17" - A Performance Comparison

 



Tuesday, September 5, 2006
Request a Comparison between any two Macs
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Hi Norman,

Your comparison follows below ...

Johnny AppleSpeed
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Mac Pro Quad Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz versus iMac G4 1.0 GHz 17"

Mac Pro Quad Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz - MA356LL/A - Aug 2006
iMac G4 1.0 GHz 17" - M8935LL/A - February 2003

Specifications info
Mac Pro Quad Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz
iMac G4 1.0 GHz 17"

Initial price difference:
Mac Pro Quad Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz - $2,499
iMac G4 1.0 GHz 17" - $1,999

Current price difference:
Mac Pro Quad Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz - $2,344
iMac G4 1.0 GHz 17" - $889

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Performance
In Performance the Mac Pro Quad Core Intel Xeon 2.66 GHz is ....

Processor Single - 300% faster ............................. 25% Processor Usage ++
Processor Multiple - 1,158% faster .......................... 100% Processor Usage ++
Copy (many files) - 173% faster
Copy (Single large file) - 228% faster
iMovie Render - 211% faster ................................. 23% Processor Usage
Photoshop Filters Single - 18% faster .................... 25% Processor Usage **
Photoshop Workflow - 83% faster .................... 60% Processor Usage **

** This application does not yet run native on the Intel processor

++The processor scores above are based on CineBench 9.5 (email us to request the actual point scores for these machines)

Processor Usage refers to how much of the machine's processing capacity was used to carry out the task. Thus if there was only 25% processor usage, 3/4 of the processing ability of the machine was sitting around waiting for something to do.

A note on performance. Because of the time distance when we tested these two machines, some of the scores above are estimates based on adjusted, original data

If you have follow up questions about interpreting these results contact us again

 

Also search at MacReviewZone/MacSpeedZone on the following part numbers MA356LL or M8935LL which should turn up additional information
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mac pro quad Xeon 2.66 v 1 GHz 17" iMac.
Norman

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Mac Pro
Basic Stats
Mac Pro: MA356LL/A
Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon 5100
4MB shared L2 cache per processor
1.33GHz dual independent frontside
1GB memory - 16GB max
Eight FB-DIMM slots
NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT
256MB Graphics Memory
250GB HardDrive 7200-rpm
Four independent hard drive bays
16x SuperDrive
(DVD+R DL/DVD±RW/CD-RW)
One open optical drive bay
Three open PCI Express slots
Five USB 2.0 ports
Two FireWire 800 ports
Two FireWire 400 ports
Optical digital audioToslink connectors
Released 8/06
More Stats ...

iMac

October 2005 G5 iMacs

20" 2.1GHz - MA064LL/A
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17" 1.9GHz - MA063L/A
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May 2005 G5 iMacs

20" 2.0GHz - M9845LL/A
vs eMac G4/1.42GHz
vs Power Mac Dual G4/1.0GHz
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17" 2.0GHz - M9844LL/A
17" 1.8GHz - M9843LL/A

September 2004 G5 iMacs

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1.8GHz 17-inch - M9249LL/A
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1.8GHz 20-inch - M9250LL/A
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Sept/Nov 2004 iMac Reviews

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1.6GHz 17-inch

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1.8GHz 17-inch

Boston Globe
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Macworld
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TheMacObserver
Fortune

ZDNet
TidBits
Macworld

1.8GHz 20-inch

Macsimum Closeouts
Boston Globe
Canada.com

G4TechTV
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Macworld

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MacUser
TheMacObserver
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MacOpinion
BareFeats
TidBits
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iMac G4/1.25GHz 20-inch

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This section updated: Monday, November 5, 2007

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