Anyone Used X-Bench on new iMac?

Hello all,
Anyone used X-Bench on the new 2.8 24" iMac? Mine has just been dleivered to my grans and am picking it up in a bit. Got a 24" now and was wondering how it was performing.
Ryan

In fact, yes, there have been some tests done by Other World Computing. Bottom line: the 2.8 GHz iMac beats the others. Looks like the performance scales equally between the 2.0, 2.4, and 2.8 GHz models.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/apple/memory/iMacand_Mac_mini_memory_performancetesting/

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