ZDNet: Benchmarking the Psystar Open Computer

May 14th, 2008 | Category: Apple Desktops

It’s a big day for the Psystar Open Computer — the quasi-Mac clone based on PC hardware and a cracked version of Mac OS X. ZDNet today published their comparison of the Open Computer with a Mac mini, and all three flavors of MacBook.

The results? The Open Computer fares pretty well against all of its Mac cousins. It scored nearly 147 with Xbench 1.3.

It beats the

Mac mini, its closest price competitor, by nearly 50 percent. The Open Computer outperforms even a MacBook Pro (with a 2.4GHz Penryn processor) by 10 points. Not too shabby at all, whether you can stand the sound of a jet airplane on your desk (Just kidding. Apparently the noise isn’t too bad).

ZDNet promises results using GeekBench soon.

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