Xbench 1.3 review

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XBench provides a range of useful tests, and is constantly being improved to offer accurate results that can be compared between different Macintoshes.

License:	Freeware
OS:	Mac OS X
File size:	0K
Developer:	Xbench
Price:	$0.00
Updated:	14 Aug 2006

XBench provides a range of useful tests, and is constantly being improved to offer accurate results that can be compared between different Macintoshes.

Xbench was created to provide a comprehensive benchmarking solution for Mac OS X.

Xbench is useful not only for comparing the relative speeds of two different Macintoshes, but also for optimizing performance on a single machine.

What's New:
Corrected a mistake that caused the altivec test to be turned off on PowerPC machines
Turned off coalesced graphics updates for all platforms on Mac OS 10.4.4 and higher
Switched compiler to GCC 4.0 on PowerPC. This provides some boost to floating point and AltiVec scores, and these have been recalibrated accordingly. This also raises Xbench's system requirements to 10.3.9 or higher.
Revised machine database to include the MacBook, Intel iMac and several other models
Added code to dynamically load machine database on launch from the Xbench website
Added support for temporarily turning off beam sync on Tiger while running graphics tests
Fixed an issue that causes Xbench to fail to launch on Leopard
Built with Xcode 2.4.

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Xbench 1.3 keywords

Xbench 1.3: XBench provides a range of useful tests, and is constantly being improved to offer accurate results that can be compared between different Macintoshes.
Starfish 2.0b5: StarfishX is a Mac OS X-native application which generates cool desktop patterns.
SM2DGraphView 1.3.2: The SM2DGraphView framework provides an NSView subclass which draws pie charts or graphs of lines and/or bars including axis labels.
LabVVIS 1.0: LabVVIS is a vectorised (AltiVec only), machine-vision library for LabVIEW on Mac OS X.
Radius Benchmarking/Testing Tool 1.0: Radius Benchmarking/Testing Tool is an application to send rapid authentication requests to a Radius server.
Lunar Siege 3D 1.1.3: A good shareware game of same years ago but, I don't know why, it can no longer be downloaded from any site and the Aeon Software, the Software House that made the game appears to be vanished.
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