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Support Low End Mac Buy hardware, software from Outpost.com. Buy Mac OS 8.5 Bible, Mac Secrets, Mac OS 8.5 Black Book, Sad Macs, Bombs, and Other Disasters, Mac Upgrade & Repair Bible, or Macs for Dummies from Amazon. Buy CDs from MusicForce, regular discounts and special prices. Benchmarks A lot of benchmarks have been created to compare one computer with another: sometimes one Mac against another, sometimes computers with totally different architectures. And each has generated at least as much heat as light as users debate the pros and cons of each test. In this section I am providing benchmark scores on systems I have tested personally. If I don't have access to a certain Macintosh, I can't test it. Where possible, I'm testing with Speedometer 3.06 and 4.02, two fairly quick benchmarks specifically designed for the Macintosh. Models tested are indexes on the left. I've also begun testing with MacBench 3, which is a time-consuming process. Remember that benchmarks are arbitrary. They measure certain types of performance that may or may not reflect the way you work. Further reading on benchmarks Are iMac/Pentium comparisons fair?, Mac Mania Benchmark wars erupt again, Chicago Tribune The folly of benchmarks, Mac Opinion Understanding CPU Performance, MacKiDo CPU Performance, MacKiDo <back to Low End Mac home page> Member of the Mac Web Network MacPromote Xchange Low End Mac established April 7, 1997. This page, the entire Low End Mac site, and all subsites of <http://lowendmac.net/> copyright ©1997, 1998, 1999 by Dan Knight unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, Macintosh, and iMac are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Additional company and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of the individual companies and are hereby acknowledged.