After a public beta test, the freeware Mac OS X benchmarking utility Xbench has made its 1.0 debut. The software enables Mac OS X 10.2 and higher users to check the ...

Spiny Software has announced the release of Xbench 1.1, the latest version of its comprehensive Mac OS X benchmarking application. The new version is optimized for use with the Power Mac G5. It was ...

Snow Leopard is being widely touted as a performance increase, but the OS upgrade resulted in a 10-15% performance DECREASE on both my Mac Pro as well as my MacBook Pro — at least, according to the ...

One of our Wales UK-based members has reported receiving his Power Mac G5 Quad earlier in the week, and has run a preliminary set of Xbench 1.2 benchmarks on it. While full details are in the forum ...

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