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So, I've had this shiny new 17 inch MacBook Pro for a month and I am quite the happy camper. My only complaint is that no matter how large the hard drive seems to be, it is never enough. Oh, and 120GB is 111GB - right!?!

Onward, to the benchmarking...

I ran XBench 1.2 (Universal Binary) on both of my Mac systems. I didn't bother killing off services, just applications running in the Dock were closed. So, my MacBook Pro has the advantage there as my G5 is running all sorts of network services.

The G5 is a dual 2.0GHz G5 with 2.5GB of RAM.
The MBP is the 17 inch model with a 2.16GHz Core Duo and 1GB of RAM.
Both systems were running their version of Mac OS X 10.4.6 at the time.

Overall results:
G5: 50.17
MBP: 49.61

That's damn close.

The full G5 output:
Results 50.17
System Info
Xbench Version 1.2
System Version 10.4.6 (8I127)
Physical RAM 2560 MB
Model PowerMac7,3
Processor PowerPC G5x2 @ 2.00 GHz
L1 Cache 64K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 512K @ 2.00 GHz
Bus Frequency 1 GHz
Video Card GeForce 6800 GT
Drive Type Maxtor 7Y250M0
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CPU Test 98.75
GCD Loop 100.04 5.27 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 100.40 2.39 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 101.72 3.36 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 93.29 16.25 Mops/sec
Thread Test 89.58
Computation 92.37 1.87 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 86.95 3.74 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 95.58
System 89.23
Allocate 91.35 335.46 Kalloc/sec
Fill 105.02 5106.21 MB/sec
Copy 76.04 1570.55 MB/sec
Stream 102.90
Copy 102.91 2125.51 MB/sec [G5]
Scale 103.09 2129.90 MB/sec [G5]
Add 102.87 2191.38 MB/sec [G5]
Triad 102.71 2197.29 MB/sec [G5]
Quartz Graphics Test 94.63
Line 103.18 6.87 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 96.70 28.87 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 99.26 8.09 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 93.02 2.35 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 83.48 5.22 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 95.91
Spinning Squares 95.91 121.66 frames/sec
User Interface Test 66.48
Elements 66.48 305.09 refresh/sec
Disk Test 13.94
Sequential 8.17
Uncached Write 61.64 37.85 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 46.38 26.24 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 2.29 0.67 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 65.54 32.94 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 47.43
Uncached Write 19.10 2.02 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 98.32 31.48 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 85.51 0.61 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 98.77 18.33 MB/sec [256K blocks]


And the MacBook Pro
Results 49.61
System Info
Xbench Version 1.2
System Version 10.4.6 (8I2032)
Physical RAM 1024 MB
Model MacBookPro1,2
Drive Type ST9120821AS
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CPU Test 81.32
GCD Loop 278.00 14.65 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 96.69 2.30 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 47.07 1.55 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 71.40 12.43 Mops/sec
Thread Test 202.71
Computation 183.58 3.72 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 226.28 9.73 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads
Memory Test 99.91
System 95.85
Allocate 91.56 336.23 Kalloc/sec
Fill 101.71 4945.53 MB/sec
Copy 94.82 1958.47 MB/sec
Stream 104.33
Copy 99.92 2063.87 MB/sec
Scale 99.49 2055.50 MB/sec
Add 109.15 2325.03 MB/sec
Triad 109.67 2346.14 MB/sec
Quartz Graphics Test 66.85
Line 66.59 4.43 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 63.60 18.99 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 65.13 5.31 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 86.84 2.19 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 58.19 3.64 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 138.22
Spinning Squares 138.22 175.34 frames/sec
User Interface Test 19.26
Elements 19.26 88.40 refresh/sec
Disk Test 25.16
Sequential 42.61
Uncached Write 43.43 26.66 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 36.10 20.43 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 55.99 16.39 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 39.55 19.88 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 17.84
Uncached Write 5.74 0.61 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 47.18 15.10 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 65.53 0.46 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 73.55 13.65 MB/sec [256K blocks]