"Does the 2.7 GHz G5 PowerMac provide twice the per-core performance of the 1.8 GHz X1000?"

reminds me that no one has yet provided Blender 2.62 tests run on G5 Mac.
"112s blender 2.62 PA6T 1.8Ghz Dualcore (LinuxMint)
113s blender 2.62 G4 1.8Ghz DualCPU !
115s blender 2.43 G5 2.3Ghz Dualcore (erroneously reported singlecore?)
117s blender 2.44 G5 2.3Ghz Dualcore
202s blender 2.5a PowerBook 1667Mhz
205s blender latest PowerBook 1667Mhz (Piru)
256s blender 2.42 PowerBook 1667Mhz
305s blender 2.43 PowerBook 1667Mhz
318s blender 2.44 PMac 1600Mhz
368s blender 2.43 MacMini 1420Mhz
"

Untill then. G4 and PA6T is faster than G5.

@Mequa

Mainly the x1000 CPU is in y2006 performance range (modern netbook range), otherwise it's more modern than any PowerPC Mac and as modern as average PC today.

Other than that, most people can see the difference between HW in production vs old HW.

[ Edited by KimmoK 07.06.2012 - 14:32 ]