Apple iMac (24-inch, 2.8GHz) review

In this review

Adobe Photoshop CS3 image-processing test (in seconds)
(Shorter bars indicate better performance)
Apple Mac Pro (2x2.66GHz)
120
Apple iMac (24-inch, 2.8GHz)
125
Apple iMac (20-inch, 2.4GHz)
133
Velocity Micro Vector GX Campus Edition
157
HP Pavilion Media Center TV m8120n
178
Sony Vaio TP1 Living Room PC
243

 

Apple iTunes encoding test (in seconds)
(Shorter bars indicate better performance)
Apple iMac (24-inch, 2.8GHz)
139
Velocity Micro Vector GX Campus Edition
139
Apple iMac (20-inch, 2.4GHz)
161
Velocity Micro ProMagix E2035
178
Sony Vaio TP1 Living Room PC
229

 

Multimedia multitasking test (in seconds)
(Shorter bars indicate better performance)
Apple Mac Pro (2x2.66GHz)
248
Apple iMac (24-inch, 2.8GHz)
522
Apple iMac (20-inch, 2.4GHz)
597
HP Pavilion Media Center TV m8120n
612.9
Gateway DX430X
1,059
Sony Vaio TP1 Living Room PC
1,174

 

Cinebench
(Longer bars indicate better performance)
Rendering multiple CPUs
Rendering a single CPU
Apple Mac Pro (2x2.66GHz)
2,052
432
HP Pavilion Media Center TV m8120n
1,241
400
Apple iMac (24-inch, 2.8GHz)
878
465
Apple iMac (20-inch, 2.4GHz)
754
400
Dell Inspiron 531
654
354
Sony Vaio TP1 Living Room PC
546
299

 

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