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March 22, 2006

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The Fastest PC is a Mac?

Posted Mar. 22, ’06, 2:47 PM PT by Cyrus Farivar
Category | Windows

xpinmac.png Yes, yes, booting XP on a Mac is now possible. It’s old news.

What’s not old news, however, is the fact that our buddies over at Gearlog ran a few tests on their new XPMacs.

The two Mac desktops outran even blazing-fast single core systems, which typically do the Windows Media Encoder test in 10-13 minutes. We haven’t tested any other Intel Core Duo desktops, but the iMac competes well against a Polywell machine with a dual-core Athlon 64 X2 3800+, while the Mini and MacBook Pro are held back a little by their slower laptop hard drives. Predictably, all the Macs blow away the Shuttle XPC M1000, which has the previous generation single-core Pentium M processor. That system scored 16 minutes on Windows Media Encoder, and took 2:52 to complete the Photoshop script.

In other words, Apple makes fast Windows PCs.

Awesome.

[Hat tip: Peter Cohen]


2 Comments

Cirrus (cyrus) said:

the fastest computers are not macs, understand, the core duo i mac is 1500

for that i could build an AMD Opteron dual core with dedicated graphics that outdo the X1600 (think only FOUR PIPELINES?!?!?!)
2 GB ram and a LCD

thats sure to destroy the imac core duo

March 22, 2006 4:23 PM
jeff tan said:

dont lie like i used a mac before is it faster than an amd processor they are not boasting is the true.

March 28, 2006 5:36 PM

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