January 14, 2006
Intel iMac Benchmarks
The initial Intel based iMac are being shipped and people are posting benchmarks. Generally the numbers aren't that great. It could be the software is not yet optimized to run on the x86 processors. Time will tell, but till then it probably doesn't pay to be one of the first guinea pigs. Wait if you can.
Actually, it felt clunky and more like being on a PC the way that it seemed to hesitate for just a moment when doing things. But I was the most disappointed with the render speeds, which were only slightly faster than single processor iMac G5 1.8 Ghz on most test, and half the speed on anything with h264. The h264 export result was so suprising that I tried it a couple of different times with a few different setting, all with the same result - all very slow - about half the speed of the iMac G5.
