Apple intel iMac definitely faster
This past weekend I had the opportunity to play with the new intel iMac at the Apple store. Comparing performance against my wife’s iMac, the new intel ones are definitely faster. I only had time to do a little playing, but with a bunch of applications opened, iPhoto opened within a second and “scrolled like butter”. This is not the case on my wife’s iMac. Now all we have to do is wait for Adobe to get off its but and release an intel native version of Photoshop.
Have you come across any benchmarks comparing the new iMac to a comparable Intel Pentium M or even a G5.
I have. Here are some links to some benchmarks that have been made.
Just to qualify my very unscientific observations, my wife’s iMac is a 1.8GHz G5 with 512megs of RAM. The machine that I was playing with was the 20 inch 2.0 GHz Duo Core Intel iMac.