[Eyenovation]

Just got my 1.33 GHz Powerbook. No white spots (thank god).
Startup from button press to dock rise:
51.10 Seconds
Here's the XBench Scores of it, RIGHT out of the box.

System Info
Xbench Version 1.1.3
System Version 10.3.3 (7G43)
Physical RAM 256 MB
Model PowerBook5,4
Processor PowerPC G4 @ 1.33 GHz
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 512K @ 1.33 GHz
Bus Frequency 167 MHz
Video Card ATY,RV360M11
Drive Type FUJITSU MHT2060AT

CPU Test 84.90
GCD Loop 79.15 3.09 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 78.79 284.94 Mflop/sec
AltiVec Basic 81.84 2.38 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 81.67 1.27 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 109.83 4.40 Mops/sec

Thread Test 74.76
Computation 60.40 815.43 Kops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 98.06 1.23 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 114.48
System 120.47
Allocate 630.46 411.25 Kalloc/sec
Fill 104.48 831.64 MB/sec
Copy 72.76 363.78 MB/sec
Stream 109.05
Copy 122.43 894.95 MB/sec [altivec]
Scale 118.07 871.34 MB/sec [altivec]
Add 98.02 627.31 MB/sec [altivec]
Triad 101.63 620.93 MB/sec [altivec]

Quartz Graphics Test 138.04
Line 138.45 3.52 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 113.01 7.95 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 109.86 2.53 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 138.32 1.50 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 261.99 4.27 Kchars/sec

OpenGL Graphics Test 97.27
Spinning Squares 97.27 68.07 frames/sec

User Interface Test 195.70
Elements 195.70 62.95 refresh/sec

Disk Test 54.55
Sequential 50.68
Uncached Write 31.42 13.10 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 46.60 19.08 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 121.61 19.25 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 57.41 23.20 MB/sec [256K blocks]

Random 59.06
Uncached Write 68.80 1.03 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 52.82 11.91 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 57.62 0.38 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 59.14 12.17 MB/sec [256K blocks]

I don't really know what all that stuff means, but I figured others might want to know who are debating between the 1.5GHz and 1.33 GHz. So far, I love my new PowerBook.

[NYCFarmboy]

what are your impressions of the LCD screen?

Congratulations by the way!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Eyenovation]

It seems slightly less bright compared to the 15" 1Ghz I'm replacing. That aside, it's great. I have one dead pixel, but such is life. I've tried rubbing it, etc. But I don't think she's gonna budge. Perhaps if I try some Shiatsu massage techniques with sacred digital oils or something..

(kidding).
Overall I'm impressed. I'll run the XBench again when I pump it full of RAM.

[Toyin]

Your xbench results seem off. Were you running at reduced processor? Those results are slower than my 12"PB Rev A in most parts. Congratulations on the new purchase though.

[Eyenovation]

Originally posted by Toyin:
Your xbench results seem off. Were you running at reduced processor? Those results are slower than my 12"PB Rev A in most parts. Congratulations on the new purchase though.

I have not tweaked anything, it's literally run right out of the box.
how do you speed up the processor?

[Justin216]

He is asking about your power profile in the preferences. There, you can set your PB to maximum speed, automatic, or reduced.

[Eyenovation]

Originally posted by Justin216:
He is asking about your power profile in the preferences. There, you can set your PB to maximum speed, automatic, or reduced.

Never knew that. Right now, it's set at however it left Cupertino.

[Eyenovation]

Results 118.33
System Info
Xbench Version 1.1.3
System Version 10.3.3 (7G43)
Physical RAM 256 MB
Model PowerBook5,4
Processor PowerPC G4 @ 1.33 GHz
L1 Cache 32K (instruction), 32K (data)
L2 Cache 512K @ 1.33 GHz
Bus Frequency 167 MHz
Video Card ATY,RV360M11
Drive Type FUJITSU MHT2060AT

CPU Test 161.44
GCD Loop 156.39 6.11 Mops/sec
Floating Point Basic 164.88 596.27 Mflop/sec
AltiVec Basic 161.77 4.70 Gflop/sec
vecLib FFT 166.00 2.58 Gflop/sec
Floating Point Library 158.57 6.35 Mops/sec

Thread Test 118.30
Computation 85.41 1.15 Mops/sec, 4 threads
Lock Contention 192.36 2.41 Mlocks/sec, 4 threads

Memory Test 124.05
System 141.92
Allocate 871.74 568.63 Kalloc/sec
Fill 149.76 1192.06 MB/sec
Copy 75.11 375.55 MB/sec
Stream 110.17
Copy 109.87 803.14 MB/sec [altivec]
Scale 121.88 899.48 MB/sec [altivec]
Add 110.22 705.40 MB/sec [altivec]
Triad 100.73 615.46 MB/sec [altivec]

Quartz Graphics Test 168.25
Line 135.96 3.46 Klines/sec [50% alpha]
Rectangle 151.74 10.68 Krects/sec [50% alpha]
Circle 161.46 3.72 Kcircles/sec [50% alpha]
Bezier 170.00 1.85 Kbeziers/sec [50% alpha]
Text 270.52 4.41 Kchars/sec
OpenGL Graphics Test 101.43
Spinning Squares 101.43 70.98 frames/sec
User Interface Test 215.92
Elements 215.92 69.45 refresh/sec

Disk Test 62.45
Sequential 66.81
Uncached Write 60.95 25.41 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 54.51 22.32 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 129.82 20.55 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 57.41 23.19 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Random 58.63
Uncached Write 65.94 0.99 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Write 52.25 11.78 MB/sec [256K blocks]
Uncached Read 58.20 0.38 MB/sec [4K blocks]
Uncached Read 59.76 12.30 MB/sec [256K blocks]

[El Magnificante]

Damn that's slow

[Eyenovation]

Slow compared to... ?

[CheesePuff]

No, the total on the second Xbench post is 118, and most other 1.33 GHz 12"ers are 118-121.

[Eyenovation]

Mine's actually a 15" ??

[funkboy]

Originally posted by Eyenovation:
Mine's actually a 15" ??

Yours is a 12" PowerBook, correct?

If you took it out of the box and ran it off battery, then that XBench score will be with "Reduced Processor Performance" checked. That's the default when running on battery power.

Is your other score how it ran when you had it plugged into the AC adapter? Because that sounds about right.

And makes my iMac seem slow in comparison...

[iREZ]

No his is a 15" just look at the video card line of the xbench results.

[SplijinX]

Your CPU test store about doubled in your second posting which seems about right. They have 12" and 15" with the 1.33GHz processor, the 15" with the Superdrive is the one with a 1.5Ghz processor. No need to be alarmed there.

[MilkmanDan]

Man, my brand spanking new 12in Powerbook with 768 RAM comes in with a score of 124 with xBench. I compared it to my friend's 1.25 MD G4 Tower, which has just about the exact same specs, and his came in at 126. We both restarted our computers, and had nothing running in the background. All in all, I'm very happy with the speed of my 12in while doing photo and video editing. Sure, I'm not doing major stuff, just iMovie and iPhoto stuff in my spare time, but its very speedy when trying to edit down half an hours worth of dancing Chinese guys in Lion outfits.

For random Chinese guys being musical, check this out.

http://www.seenoevil.org/~joshua/media/tangdynasty.mov