This produces more agile action from the iMac's innards. The Santa Rosa platform was only launched in May by Intel and has fatter pipes feeding data to the cores and better power handling than the older board. Some of the raw computation improvement was down to Intel's brand new Santa Rosa platform and the faster processor.
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The Mac Pro only showed its bigger muscles under very heavy workloads that could flex the extra cores and really work the stronger graphics card. In Xbench it scored 40% higher than a 15-inch 2.2GHz MacBook Pro with 2GB RAM, and was virtually neck and neck with a 2 x 2.66GHz Mac Pro 1GB in all but the raw computation tasks. Overall we recorded an average 18% increase in general performance for the aluminium 20-inch 2.4GHz iMac with 1GB of RAM compared with a white 24-inch 2.16GHz iMac with 2GB. The iMac can take 4GB of RAM and comes with 1GB as standard. Some benchmarking tests are RAM-dependent, so if you opt for more RAM than us the results will change. We then used Cinebench R10 and LCDtest to look closely at the graphics card and screen quality. We used Xbench 1.4 and Geekbench 2 to run general system benchmarking tests, and added in our own speed tests, such as copying a 1GB folder, iTunes encoding and startup and shutdown times. Changing the default colour settings in System Preferences from iMac to Wide Gamut RGB helped reduce this problem, though. We used LCDtest to drop the screen to solid colours and then swivelled the display to get different angles on the reds and blues and so on.Ĭolour distortion happens: this won't affect how any prints or designs output, and it doesn't occur when you sit directly in front of the screen, but if you frequently show off a design to colleagues crowded around your desktop then it may be a problem. We did find that some colours wash out on the iMac if you look at it from outside the direct viewing angle. Fortunately the screen is very bright indeed, which goes a long way to combating the reflection. Our view is that the displays do take some getting used to and a matte option would have been nice. Unlike the MacBook Pro, which you can buy with either a matte or glossy option, all iMacs only come with glossy displays, which has irked some. Because it's made of glass, it can act like a mirror when the display is dark or a uniform colour. The one occasional complaint was the reflectiveness of the new glossy screen. With it the family can make websites, movies and music with the latest Mac tools. More than anything, it was the inclusion of iLife '08 that appealed most. The family man was less bothered by the looks and found the iMac attractive for more practical reasons, such as the glass screen being easier to clean and more robust. There wasn't much love for the old white plastic of the iMac among the professionals, and the new aluminium and glass design struck them as more business-like.
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