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Here's the latest MBA with the 1.8 i7.
Check out those memory and disk scores.
Before I start running this on my two machines (1999 G4 PowerMac running Panther and 2008 Mac Pro 3.1 running Snow Leopard), can anyone give me a list of which background processes are safe to switch off?
ADDED LATER:
OK, 4pm and no answers forthcoming, so I went ahead, shut down every application and ran the tests:
PowerMac G4 Graphite (AGP/Sawtooth)
1.4GHz Sonnet CPU
2GB PC100
80GB System drive (65GB free space)
2008 Mac Pro 3,1 Dual Quad-core 2.8GHz
12GB PC2-6400
320GB System drive (170GB free space)
Verdict: to be honest, given that the Mac Pro has 8 x as many processors all running at twice the clock speed of the G4 and 6 x as much RAM running at 8 x the bus speed, I expected a bigger difference. A lot bigger.
ADDED LATER STILL!
OK, now I've seen pigoo3's post about Xbench under-reporting on 8-core Mac Pro machines. That might go some way to explaining things...
I was just on the phone with OWC customer service about my 240gb OWC SSD not performing to spec. When I told them that I used Xbench for my testing, they said that it is not a reliable program for testing, and that a more accurate program is QuickBench. I don't have that, since it cost money, but I would like to know if anyone here does, and how it compares in results. My ssd is getting max read at 179MB/sec and max write at 177MB/sec. I'll be returning this for a refund. My last OCZ ssd was faster
Also, the Negotiated Link Speed is at 3 Gigabits, so I know it's not the issue of it being only 1.5, which is what they first thought was the issue.
I would post some screen shots of everything, but I'm running out of time.
I took a screenshot of my results, then inserted the image above, but it isn't working. Ideas?