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got a request to do this over at macnn forums. thought i’d share the results with you here
update: just got some perspective on these results:

Athlon FX-60 (2.8GHz): 692
Intel Pentium 955 EE (3.46GHz): 666
Athlon64 X2-4800+ (2.4GHz): 638
Intel Pentium 840D (3.2GHz): 532
MacBook Pro (2.0GHz): 563

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i just ran a quick xbench on the macbook pro, here are the results. score: 63.56
update: per user comment, i disabled quartz beam sync and reran the test. results are here. new score: 80.16 It should be noted that XBench is not optimized for the intel platform and these numbers should [...]

yup, to my surprise it arrived this morning. i have posted some initial pictures over at flickr. check em out:

very good initial impressions. of course, it smokes everything in my house (all G4s). i tried running coconutbattery to get some indication of the max battery capacity/life, but the app crashed. [...]

am i really ready to switch my mac experience to the intel platform? i compiled a list of my most used applications on osx, and determined whether they were universal binary or rosetta emulation. out of my 24 most used applications, 14 were universal binaries and 10 were rosetta emulation. only one [...]