X1000 benchmarks

[bbond007]

I can't decide...

Should I buy 10 mac mini G4 computers with MorphOS licences (assuming I can get a mini with 512K and Morphos license for $300) or should I purchase one X1000?

What would be faster?

[bbond007]

I think it would be interesting to run some sort of 68K based benchmark.

I could provide results for

UAE on a i7 740QM which is a 1.7 (i think)
MorphOS 2.6 on 1.42 mini
A1200/060/FastATA IV

if so, what benchmark application?

[bbond007]

apart from multicore support i dont see how 64bit operation would speed up anything. in fact my 64bit version of lightwave9 was marhinally slower than a 32bit on my then 64bit capable system. 64bit operation enabled amounts of memory are anyway marginally useful under amiga-like applications. so thats imho not a point.

I think it depends a great deal on the CPU architecture.

For example, the original netburst P4 and the Itanic took a huge performance hit running legacy code.