Intel iMac VS iMac G5 Bootup time (with video)
Published January 17th, 2006 in Apple, Noteworthy, PC, Technology
This is a video showing the amazingly fast bootup time of the new Intel iMac. As you an see from the image above the Intel iMac on the left is already loaded while the iMac G5 is still on the Apple logo screen. This looks all and good for the ones who have never used a Mac before, but if you have, then you will certainly notice that that G5 iMac’s screen is black for a good 5/10 seconds before it shows the Apple screen; This is not normal. The people who filmed this had to have done something, even like turning the power off suddenly while the iMac was on, to make it force a longer system check. This is highly irregular and my Mac Mini (with a G4 processor) boots faster than this.
One person who also found this highly suspicious, conducted a test of his own.
Event v G5 Intel My G5 Mac sound 4.5 4.5 3.5 Apple logo 25.5 6.7 15.6 Mac OS X 1:21.6 31.9 34.4 Ready to use 1:38.0 37.9 40.8
The results, can be seen above, clearly show that the G5 (labelled v G5) in the video has something wrong with it. This just shows someone trying to exagerate the bootup time of OS X on Intel. I have no idea why someone would do this, but you can still see that the Intel iMac is faster. But, (yes, another but), the calculations for the non Intel and Intel iMac are from the video, and the other G5 is live timing, so these can cause errors. Nothing is perfect at all, and mistakes could be made anywhere.
So what is the conclusion: The Intel iMac is faster than the G5 iMac, but by how much, we’ll never know until someone conducts a proper and fair test (that is actually unbiased).
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