The graphs below represent a performance comparison between older and discontinued Mac models and Mac clones. Testing was done using MacBench 4.0 with most results supplied by Ziff-Davis Labs. MacBench profiles popular software programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Word 6.0 and QuarkXpress among a variety of others and applies these profiles to the various subsystems being tested . See this description of what MacBench tests and how.
Longer bars equals faster performance.
For detailed information on configurations either download the MacBench software or email me. Performance results for new models will be added to this page as they become available. Keep in mind when comparing results that they can only be accurately compared to results from the same version of MacBench. You cannot compare 4.0 results to 3.0 results etc. It is important to keep Disk Cache setting differences in mind when assessing and comparing Disk Mix and Publishing Disk Mix scores.