I'd be able to answer that if iTunes hadn't hosed my entire library last night. Grrrrrrr.

32. Maybe half of those are smart.

15, 7 smart

Intel Dual Core Macs only about 20% faster than the old ones:

Macworld Lab’s tests do show that the new Intel-based iMac is faster than the iMac G5 when running native applications. However, we found that those improvements are generally much less than what Apple claims is a 2x improvement in speed.

Instead, our tests found the new 2.0GHz Core Duo iMac takes rougly 10 to 25 percent less time than the G5 iMac to perform the same native application tasks, albeit with some notable exceptions. (If you'd prefer, that makes the Core Duo iMac 1.1 to 1.3 times as fast.) And we also found that applications that aren’t yet Intel-native—which must run using Apple’s Rosetta code-translation technology—tend to run half as fast as the same applications running natively on the iMac G5.

I was under the impression that Apple and Steve Jobs never claimed it was real world performance.

Ah, yes, here it is. [link]

Testing conducted by Apple in December 2005 using preproduction 20-inch iMac units with 2GHz Intel Core Duo; all other systems were shipping units. All scores are estimated. SPEC is a registered trademark of the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC); see www.spec.org for more information. Benchmarks were compiled using the IBM compiler and a beta version of the Intel compiler for Mac OS.

It doesn't surprise me that a computer manufacturer uses optimal numbers. They pretty much all do.

12 playlists, 8 smart

I was trying to de-frag the other day and got "The directory structures on disk "Macintosh HD" are too large for the current version of Norton Utilities." Any recommendations? I probably need to purge some stuff, but I don't think that's the issue at hand. I'm using Norton Systemworks 3.0, which includes Speed Disk 8.0.2.

It doesn't surprise me that a computer manufacturer uses optimal numbers. They pretty much all do.

Of course. That's why it's nice to have the real-world numbers out there.

I was trying to de-frag the other day and got "The directory structures on disk "Macintosh HD" are too large for the current version of Norton Utilities." Any recommendations? I'm using Norton Systemworks 3.0, which includes Speed Disk 8.0.2.

Were you running it off the CD, or from an installation? If you have it installed, you can try and update it again.

Symantec's advice is to update the Norton Utilities component to 8.01, but you mentioned you have Speed disk 8.02.

Note: If you have not already updated to LiveUpdate 3.0.1, you must run quit LiveUpdate after updating to version 3.0.1 and then run LiveUpdate again to get the NUM 8.0.1 update.

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But it is odd that Speed Disk 8.02 wouldn't work. Maybe some other component isn't updated.

Check to see if Disk Doctor is updated, and run it on the drive first.

It's installed, but I was running off the CD because I was working on the start-up drive.

Off to check your link.

Oh, I think I get it now. I'll bet the CD is 8.0 and I only have the update unstalled on the hard drive. So I can't do this.