Apple Mac Upgrades - RAM, SSD Flash, External Drives and More

Open and close 1000 windows in the Finder	L2 Cache	L3 Cache	Time, Sec.

Reference Apple Systems

PM G4/400 Gigabit Ethernet	1MB SPB SRAM	0MB	42
PM 2x G4/450 Gigabit Ethernet	1MB SPB SRAM x2	0MB	35
Apple eMac G4/700	256k On Chip	0MB	34
Apple iMac G4/700 15"	256k On Chip	0MB	34
iMac 1GHz (167MHz Bus, 768MB RAM, GF4MX 32MB)	256k	0MB	24
PB G4 17" 1.33GHz (167MHz Bus, 512MB RAM, R9600 64MB)	512k On Chip	0MB	33
PM G5/1.6GHz (800MHz Frontside Bus)	512k On Chip	0MB	23
PM G5/1.8GHz (900MHz Frontside Bus)	512k On Chip	0MB	16
PM G5/2x 2.0GHz (1GHz Frontside Bus)	512k On Chip	0MB	16

Acceleration Cards

OWC Mercury Extreme G4/700MHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	33
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/800MHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	33
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/800MHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	32
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	25
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	25
GigaDesigns G-Celerator G4/1.25GHz (@ 1.2GHz)	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	24
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.25GHz (@ 1.2GHz)	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	23
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1.2GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	20
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.33GHz (@ 1.3GHz)	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	18
GigaDesigns G-Celerator G4/1.25GHz (@ 1.4GHz)	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	17
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.467GHz (@ 1.4GHz)	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	17
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1.4GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	17
GigaDesigns G-Celerator Dual G4/1.0GHz @ 1.2GHz	256k x 2	2MB SPB SRAM x2	25
GigaDesigns G-Celerator Dual G4/1.2GHz @ 1.3GHz	256k x 2	2MB SPB SRAM x2	25
GigaDesigns G-Celerator Dual G4/1.2GHz @ 1.4GHz	256k x 2	2MB SPB SRAM x2	24

Time to open and close 1000 windows in the Finder - Shorter bars are faster. Tests performed using Let 1000 Windows Bloom In previous tests this showed the benfit of both a fast graphics card, and a fast processor. That still holds true, but in direct comparison to previous testing the totally redesigned Finder that Mac OS X 10.3 includes sure has benefitted us all - Some of these scores are substantially faster than what the tests under 10.2 showed. The new Finder is just great!!