Apple Mac Upgrades - RAM, SSD Flash, External Drives and More

Open and close 1000 windows in the Finder	L2 Cache	L3 Cache	Time, Sec.

Reference Apple Systems

PM G4/466MHz Digital Audio	1MB SPB SRAM	0MB	34
PM G4/2x 533MHz Digital Audio	1MB SPB SRAM x2	0MB	33
PM G4/667MHz Digital Audio	0MB	1MB DDR SDRAM	33
iMac 1GHz (167MHz, 768MB, GF4MX 32MB)	256k	0MB	24
PB G4 17" 1.33GHz (167MHz, 512MB, R9600 64MB)	512k On Chip	0MB	33
PM G4/2x 1.25GHz FW800	256k	2x1MB DDR SDRAM	17
PM G4/2x 1.42GHz FW800	256k	2x2MB DDR SDRAM	17
PM G5/1.6GHz (800MHz Frontside Bus)	512k On Chip	0MB	23
PM G5/1.8GHz (900MHz Frontside Bus)	512k On Chip	0MB	16
PM G5/2x 2.0GHz (1GHz Frontside Bus)	512k On Chip	0MB	16

Acceleration Cards

OWC Mercury Extreme G4/800MHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	32
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/800MHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	28
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	25
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	23
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1.2GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	19
GigaDesigns G-Celerator G4/1.25GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	18
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.25GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	18
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.33GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	17
Sonnet Encore/ST G4/1.4GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	17
GigaDesigns G-Celerator G4/1.25GHz @ 1.467GHz	256k	2MB SPB SRAM	17
OWC Mercury Extreme G4/1.467GHz	256k	2MB DDR SRAM	17
PowerLogix PowerForce Dual G4 2x1.2GHz (7457)	512k x2	2MB SPB SRAM x2	17

Time to open and close 1000 windows in the Finder - Shorter bars are faster. Tests performed using Let 1000 Windows Bloom In previous tests this showed the benfit of both a fast graphics card, and a fast processor. That still holds true, but in direct comparison to previous testing the totally redesigned Finder that Mac OS X 10.3 includes sure has benefitted us all - Some of these scores are substantially faster than what the tests under 10.2 showed. The new Finder is just great!!