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That's not right, no. There are a number of problems with timers on some AMD-based systems. Other operating systems provide mechanisms for working around these problems but since Mac OS X doesn't support AMD-based systems (at least not officially) and doesn't provide said mechanisms, I can't use them and the odd wonky result slips into the result browser.

I've removed the Hackintosh score from the top scores list. Thanks for pointing it out!

According to the link below the top system is a Hackintosh using an AMD proc - scoring double the results of the xserve. Could this be right?

http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/top

Maybe the newer and better technology will be suitable instead of the Duodock systems. I second that opinion for an ultramobile with a "home base station."

@Jason: The DuoDock systems were TERRIBLE performance though. I had a late-1996 Duo 2300c (the last, best one made) with the 100MHz PPC 603e chip. It was a DOG. Terribly slow, was slower than comparable 601-based machines of the era. The "good old days" really weren't. I was so excited to replace that piece of dogmeat with the Powerbook 3400c when it came out....

Ive been playing with my 5160 Mac Pro ( 4 core at 3 Ghz).Any ideas on my bottleneck?

I can not hit 6,000 avg score, yet I see many other peoplae have, with slower processors.

Best i can do is almost hit 6,000.

I notice that the app only uses 100-200 percent CPU utilization for the most part, some times spiking to 300 percent, thats it.

Ive been playing with my 5160 Mac Pro ( 4 core at 3 Ghz).

I also did a bunch of test, running your app while keeping the processor really busy, including compressing a 4.264 video whille running your program. I set the thread for the codec, to Priority 1, and always in front.

To my surprise I still get scores above 5.000, and clost to 5500.

Any Ideas
Vince

Here is what I find odd: If a single core G5 has a base score of 1000, then a dual processor G5 would have a similar performance to dual core Intel at the same speed Where is the benefit in an Intel processor? Considering that I can buy an IBM p5 system (G5 based) that is even faster than the Apple G5 why the switch to Intel

Since you only had that one 8 core Xserve example to go by, I ran GeekBench 2 on my eight core, 2.66 GHz Xserve. Looking forward to getting some 3 GHz eight core systems.

Great site - I just linked it from mine for New Zealand Mac users.
Regards, M

Yeah, the old PowerBook Duo was an amazing system. The full-size dock was feature-packed, with space for a couple of expansion cards, a HD, and, IIRC, some models even had a socket for an FPU. The best part was the form factor. The dock was big enough that you could put a screen on top of it, and use it in all the same ways that you would normally use a desktop machine. Furthermore, it was motorized for the docking/undocking process, which added a definite cool factor.

I had a couple of the Duos in my computing carreer, and I must say that I miss that whole model of computing. I wish I could slap my MacBook in a dock and pick up a high-speed DVD burner, graphics acceleration (ability to drive 2-3 big displays and play games), and storage, along with a ton of USB and firewire ports.

Hmm...I definitely need to replace that G4 Mac mini with a Core Duo Mac mini.

The processor industry has hit the wall in terms of speed and acceptable heat. The new direction is multi-cores and multi-threaded apps. Unfortunatly this also hits a wall in heat acceptance for laptops.

So what now? How about a docking station for laptops that contains more processors a dvd drive and a hard drive?

Now a laptop can be light weight, cool and flashed based for portability uses. When the computing muscle is needed, along with higher power requirements of dvd drives and hard drives, take it home to the laptop docking station.

I see so many people turn laptops into desktops anyway, so go with the trend,

Use USB drive keys for portable storage.