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Testing the iMac G5 vs. Intel video


An enterprising person over at Digg decided to time starting up his own iMac G5 alongside the video that I pointed to earlier, and while he found the Core Duo iMac to be the fastest, he didn't have as much of a gap as the clearly ailing G5 in that video: "The difference in boot times is such that one gets impression that Intel chipped iMac blows the G5 away. Not so, I%u2019m afraid. Whatever the guys did with the G5 it slowed it down considerably. And Intel iMac is actually hardly any faster than G5. How come? Simple, I used stopwatch, that video and then my iMac."

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