| Some early benchmarks of the PowerMac G5 1.6GHz have been posted to Chaosmint.com, thanks to David Marcus and James F. Haw.
 The numbers provide an early look into the low-end PowerMac G5.  A few caveats however:
 
 1) XBench and Cinebench 2003 are not G5-aware applications and as a result may need to be tweaked to accurately measure the performance of the G5.
 
 2) The comparison machine that people will compare it to will most likely be a Dual 1.42GHz machine.  Remember that you are comparing two G4 processors compared to one G5.
 
 3) XBench results seem to vary widely on the same hardware.
 
 4) A better test would be a Photoshop benchmark using the old and G5-aware versions of Photoshop.
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