The base model is better scoring than my old Pro tower from 2006/7. Add Thunderbolt and it's an awesome deal. I can imagine in 3 or 4 years I'll just buy a mini to replace this tower, which is still quite fast and good for all uses still.
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2011 Mac Mini - Geekbench Scores
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It's probably too early for that as these new Minis were only announced two days ago and CTO systems take three business days to get ready plus shipping time on top. I suspect the second half of next week you might start hearing of people receiving them.
ok, this is getting crazy. my 4 core MP 1,1 only scores 5190 on that site.
i've got XEON processors dammit, and 2 of them...
time to move up and save on electricity and home cooling it would seem.
A bit scary huh?
My 1,1 is still plenty fast. When I do replace it in a few years, I'm sure it will be going with a quad mini with a discrete graphics and an external Thunderbolt array. There's a chance I might go iMac if my monitors die, but I think the mini will be it.
I too was curious to see how it would compare, so I searched Geekbench results for "i7-2620M" and found results for the 13-inch MBP with that same CPU.
http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/search?commit=Search&page=2&q=i7-2620m
32-bit: 6935 (5% faster*)
64-bit: 7539 (4% faster*)
*Compared to the 2011 Mac mini (Core i5-2520M) with discrete GPU:
32-bit: 6603
64-bit: 7232
I believe scores might vary more than usual because of Intel Turbo Boost, which is highly dependent on temperature. We'll have to see if the Mac mini is better or worse. Perhaps the Mac mini will score higher since it does not have to run as cool (designed for operation on a desk vs. on a person's lap).
I also started a spreadsheet to compare models:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spr...o7dEtvaHZSWEhVWS1KODNQSHlLcjlMMHc&output=html
(Note: I should average out scores, but I have not yet)
ok, this is getting crazy. my 4 core MP 1,1 only scores 5190 on that site.
i've got XEON processors dammit, and 2 of them...
time to move up and save on electricity and home cooling it would seem.
I don't think that mac pro will do hyper threading. So you system can work on 4 threads where the new mini server will do 8 threads. GeekBench seems to favor systems that do hyper threading.
Does the Quad Core i7 Mini server have Turbo boost like the other minis? If that;s the case it's no wonder that system would crank out such a high score.
Just remember that system has a rather lame video card and even under the best of circumstances you system will probably still be better at gaming
Though bear in mind xbench doesn't work anymore under Lion, it is PowerPC code.
First, try to play one 1080 HD video with video acceleration, and look at the CPU temp to be reasonable... and not 95C.
Then buy... .
The mini does not sweat with 1080p video. Heck on my 2010 mini 1440p video was a slide show. My new i7 dual core plays 1440p video just as smooth as anything else.. the only hthing that makes my my new i7 sweat is playing eve online. But even that is quite stable.
I think you are over focused on heat issues
And don't place all your trust in video playback. Video acceration in the flash player under lion is busted and does not have an ofical non beta fix yet