XBench figures for Fall 2009 Mac lineup

I'm shopping for a new mac, not sure what I want. The other day I went to the Apple Store and ran XBench on a number of models. Figures are below. Note that I ran these one time only, so some results may be an outlier.

With the exception of the Air, all the laptop drives were 5400 RPM. The Air had an SSD drive. Also, I'm pretty sure the tower was the Quad core, not the 8-core, but I'm not certain. Finally, I didn't run benchmarks on the Macbook or the mini. Sorry!

I didn't reproduce all the results here, just the category ones (I did break down the Disk Test to its two sub-categories). I still have the full results and can provide additional numbers for the curious.

For XBench, the higher number is better. I have no idea how they're weighted for the total score, but here we are:

	MacPro 2.66GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon	iMac 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo	MacBook Pro 2.26GHz Intel Core 2 Duo	MacBook Pro 2.53GHz Intel Core 2 Duo	MacBook Air 2.13GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, SSD
RAM, gig	3	4	2	4	2
Overall Score	196.45	123.33	116.60	128.33	131.29
CPU	197.83	217.22	160.58	181.45	151.83
Thread	875.92	367.74	244.86	309.72	218.52
Memory	399.97	210.98	183.66	190.57	177.25
Quartz Graphics	254.35	243.05	177.97	197.14	157.63
OpenGL Graphics	126.66	173.48	82.69	90.44	70.70
User Interface	367.85	51.245	241.03	278.42	217.89
Disk, Overall	80.70	65.08	44.61	47.99	87.94
Disk, Sequential	159.01	170.75	83.58	95.06	76.62
Disk, Random	54.07	40.20	30.42	32.09	103.17

XBench version: 1.3