Time to rip a 7:27 192kbps MP3 file using iTunes3. Shorter bars are better.

I was astounded at the rate that the PowerLogix cards extracted audio. And, considering this is with the factory stock internal CD drive, I am anxious to try a speedy OWC Mercury FireWire CD-RW drive as the reading source - it should be even faster!

Time to manipulate a 100MB test image using Adobe Photoshop 7.0. Shorter bars are better.

Test was performed as follows -

• Automatic script set up to open a 1600x1200 72 dpi image and perform the following functions-
• Increase resolution to 600 dpi.
• Convert from RGB to CMYK.
• Rotate canvas 180 Degrees.
• Apply a Gaussian Blur filter at 3.0 pixels.

This yeilds an approximately 100 MB test file.

Quake 3 testing - Frames Per Second. Longer bars are better.

Set Quake's settings to HIGH QUALITY and only adjust the resolution - nothing fancy, but repeatable honest scores. :>) If you want to tweak your config file for even more performance, you can tweak your config file to get faster framerates (at the loss of some detail).

Note - some scores are blank becaue either it is not the video display's native resolution (iMac scores) or the video card could not drive the monitor at the specified resolution (RAGE 128)