loonymonkey Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 Im thinking about getting a MacBook, so I went to Compusa to check them out. I ran Xbench on (5) Macbooks. See the image below. What I dont understand is the cheapest MacBook scored the highest. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44564-how-accurate-is-xbench-i-ran-it-on-5-macbooks-compusa/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
consolation Posted March 8, 2007 Share Posted March 8, 2007 (edited) X-bench is a joke, and has always been one. You could equally well use the laptop's weight as a measure for all the good that it does. For example on my hacky it will rate a 950 higher the a 7600. On my old G4 it'd rate a 4mx higher then a 9800... Honestly chicken guts are more accurate than that bit of malware. Use geekbench to rate the processor and openmark to rate the graphics performance. Then, you will see the true performance.... Edited March 8, 2007 by consolation Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44564-how-accurate-is-xbench-i-ran-it-on-5-macbooks-compusa/#findComment-319176 Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted March 9, 2007 Share Posted March 9, 2007 For real world Macs, go to Macworld and see their Speedmark results. Don't trust any kind of benchmarking tool that says "do this at home." Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44564-how-accurate-is-xbench-i-ran-it-on-5-macbooks-compusa/#findComment-320065 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaco Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 I also discovered that the result in Xbench does not mean anything. Went and test all the mac's at my apple store to compare to my 2 hackies - according to the result, my Dell E1705 with Intel 2.0 GHZ due core integrated videocard 945 on the motherboard, running one core beats the pants off the MacBook Pro 2.33 with a dedicated 256MB video card - how can that be. Another things is that it rates my one computer almost at half the speed than the other one, but yet this computer (Xbench rateing 88) has double the amount of RAM, better processor and crunch mpeg-4 twice as fast than the comptuter that have xbench rating of 156. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44564-how-accurate-is-xbench-i-ran-it-on-5-macbooks-compusa/#findComment-333717 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vipersfate Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 I agree. How can my AMD 3700+ Smack the {censored} out of a Black Macbook? I mean a G5 I could understand. I rated a 98 on XBench, and my friends Macbook rated a 58.?! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/44564-how-accurate-is-xbench-i-ran-it-on-5-macbooks-compusa/#findComment-334248 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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