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Macintosh SE

Dan Knight - 1998.10.06 - Tip Jar

SE/30 The SE uses an 8 MHz 68000 CPU. Drive is a 40 MB Apple-branded Quantum LP40S formatted with Apple HD SC Setup. (This was not the original hard drive, which was a much slower 20 MB mechanism.)

Remember that benchmarks are arbitrary. They measure certain types of performance that may or may not reflect the way you work.

Speedometer 3.06

The system was tested on 5 and 6 October 1998 using System 7.5.5 with inessential extensions off. Results are relative to a Mac Classic, which rates 1.0. Numbers rounded off to two decimal places.

The first set of numbers compares performance at different cache settings.

cache  CPU  graphics  disk   math
 32KB  0.98   0.98    1.13   0.99
 64KB  0.98   0.98    1.12   0.99
128KB  0.98   0.98    1.13   0.99
256KB  0.98   0.98    0.91   0.99

The cache setting should have little influence on non-disk tests, which these numbers bear out. With this particular setup, cache size makes no appreciable difference.

Speedometer 4.02

Speedometer 4 doesn't run on 68000-based Macs.

Go to the SE profile.

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