Geekbench Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

New iMacs 25 percent faster than previous generation

by Michael Grothaus (May 7th, 2011)

A few days ago, we reported on Macworld's benchmark results for the new Sandy Bridge-equipped iMacs. Macworld found them to be, on average, about 16 percent faster in the Speedmark 6.5 test than the previous generation. Now Primate Labs has put together a report detailing the iMac's speed ...

Found Footage: Browsing speed compared on the iPhone 4 and 3GS

by David Winograd (Jul 6th, 2010)

Thanks to Obama Pacman, here's a neat (audio muted) video comparison of web browsing speed over 3G on an iPhone 4 (shown on the left) and an iPhone 3GS (shown on the right). The test was done using only mobile 3G with Wi-Fi turned off, and it shows a variety of sites using Safari in a head to ...

Rumor: Geekbench hints at a Core i7 MacBook Pro

by Michael Rose (Feb 6th, 2010)

A quick couple of tips from readers Ken and Jack, and this thread over at the MacRumors forums, point us towards an interesting results page at the Geekbench site (Google cached version, in case they get hammered), which aggregates benchmark results from thousands of users all over the globe. This ...

Benchmarking results: Is Snow Leopard really any faster than Leopard?

by Chris Rawson (Sep 2nd, 2009)

Be sure to check all of our ongoing Snow Leopard coverage right here. One of the biggest features of Snow Leopard isn't something apparent to the naked eye: software tweaks and refinements intended to make OS X a leaner, meaner OS for your fighting Apple machine. But is Snow Leopard really any ...

MacBook Pro vs PowerBook benchmarks

by Fabienne Serriere (Feb 24th, 2006)

If you are like me and enjoy a good clean fight, check out these benchmarks at Geek Patrol using their own pre-production software: Geekbench, a multi-platform benchmarking utility. These numbers reflect benchmarking on a 1.5GHz PowerBook G4 with 1.25GB RAM vs a 2.0GHz MacBook Pro with 1GB RAM (the ...

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