Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
What is your Mac's WEI?
- Thread starter amin
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Peace said:
Does your iMac have the 7300GT or 7600GT? Graphics card weighs heavily on the benchmark.
br0adband
macrumors 6502a
Peace said:
It's not a 1 to 10 scale/score type of thing. Everything relates to accumulate the score, similar to the way Xbench creates a composite score for OSX machines.
As for people wanting to run Windows, if you've got an issue with them doing it on Apples, call Apple - they created BootCamp.
bb
br0adband
macrumors 6502a
"A chain is only as strong as its weakest link..." or so the saying goes. I find issues with the WinSAT scores because of how the different composites are weighed against one another, but it's better than nothing I guess.
The true test of a machine has yet to be made, really. I prefer something like PCMark because it runs relatively fast and doesn't focus primarily on the 3D aspects, which is what 3DMark and most other major benchmarks that anyone can use care about.
The big mother of benchmarks, the BAPCO SysMark, simply isn't available for most anyone out there to use and it's ridiculously complicated to set up; the requirements are just too odd in most respects.
I want a benchmark I can install, run, and get results, with no system modifications necessary. Under Windows, that's PCMark for me - under OSX, it's Xbench. Both are fast to complete, do a thorough runthrough of all the major components and that's all she wrote.
bb
The true test of a machine has yet to be made, really. I prefer something like PCMark because it runs relatively fast and doesn't focus primarily on the 3D aspects, which is what 3DMark and most other major benchmarks that anyone can use care about.
The big mother of benchmarks, the BAPCO SysMark, simply isn't available for most anyone out there to use and it's ridiculously complicated to set up; the requirements are just too odd in most respects.
I want a benchmark I can install, run, and get results, with no system modifications necessary. Under Windows, that's PCMark for me - under OSX, it's Xbench. Both are fast to complete, do a thorough runthrough of all the major components and that's all she wrote.
bb
br0adband said:
In the case of the WEI, the overall score is not really a composite since it is determined solely by the lowest subscore. For example, if one had a Conroe Extreme processor, ATI 1950 XTX, a couple Raptors, but only 512MB RAM, your overall score would be based only on the low RAM.
br0adband
macrumors 6502a
amin said:
In other words it's a weakest link composite score. 😀 But I understand what you're saying, and you're absolutely correct, and that's why I think it's a crappy way to judge the performance with a "number" for the most part.
I'll stick with PCMark05 for the time being until something better comes along. Can't wait to see how my 24" iMac does on PCMark05 when I get it home next week.
Have fun, always...
bb
