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Initial Benchmarks

Barefeats posted some preliminary benchmarks on the Dual 800's as compared to older machines.

The Dual 533's hold their own against the Single 867... but the Dual 800's clearly take the lead in multiprocessor aware apps... .besting the Single 867 by as much as 87% in one bench (AltiVec Fractal)

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