Test your real-world machine speed...

[Greystroke]

well here are my Xbench results:

http://ladd.dyndns.org/xbench/merge.xhtml?doc1=15701&doc2=1&setCookie=true

anyone care to explain half of those tests....

 

[aaike]

Real world... so I got Finder, Menu Meters, Virtual Desktop, Konfabulator, Tablet Driver, Dock Extender, Mail, iCal, ITunes (playing) Excel, Terminal, Tekxteditor, OmniOutliner, Periodic Table X and Speed X running and I only got

Typical 233,1
and Fast-Int 949,4 Mips on my G4...

 

[Ricky]

I agree, Xbench is much better.
http://ladd.dyndns.org/xbench/merge.xhtml?doc1=15702&doc2=1&setCookie=true My results. My machine is SO SLOW :\

 

[davidflas]

Typical Instructions: 749.1 MIPS
Fast Integer: 2.8 BIPS

Running on battery and airport