Why MacWorld doesn’t Benchmark the new iMac
The new iMac are there for 2 weeks, available and used since more than one week even on foreign countries. So they are here, for real. And as I benchmarked the new Imac quickly using XBench, their performance-level is deceiving and results seems stranges.
MacWorld, that is a reference in the Mac press, haven’t tested them yet. Or put it differently, they doesn’t disclose any benchmark results, pretending to prepare a new set of benchmarks instead of benchmarking the new iMac and offering results.
The problem is that the new iMac have the fastest CPU seen on any iMac, even the entry-level model is ahead of the old high-end iMac for cpu-only computation!
But this come at a price, as many PC, there’s just a fast or faster CPU, but hard-drive is slow, and graphic card is slowest available for XBench UI tests since PowerMac G4!!!
The results is that these 21.5″ Core2 Duo 3.06Ghz with dedicated Radeon 4670 GPU are slower than 2-years old 2.4Ghz 20″ iMac on many tasks, and the 27″ could not compete with last generation entry-level 2.66Ghz 24″ iMac!
Does MacWorld wait to disclose their benchmarks after they will print them on their November’09 issue?
Does MacWorld exchange with Apple to try to hide the deceiving results of new iMac, waiting for magic drivers to come?
Or does MacWorld preparing a new set of bench, CPU-oriented, to mask the inability of new iMac to offer good balanced performance-level?
