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first : i test with all my currents apps opens :
IE - Terminal - iTune playing - CPU monitor - "classic" - photoshop
my result was : 1,75 secs
( only on one processor i think
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The benchmark application only uses one processor, but OSX using both. This means that while one processor was doing the benchmark, the other was playing an iTunes song. One good way to see what your processor is doing is to open up the CPU monitor utility. This just shows total CPU usage. The Process Viewer utility shows in more detail what the processor is being used for. If you change the sampling rate from the default 20 secs to 5, you can get a better idea of what is going on. Run the benchmark while you are watching the Process Viewer, and you will see that every once in a while, the Login process appears. Also you see that at certain times, the Window Manager (Aqua?) jumps up to about 10-15% and then back down to normal 2-3%. I think both of these will be changed in the new version 10.1, and we will be able to see a slight increase in the times for this benchmark.