The Apple Macintosh Performa 6360 with Internal Geoport Express Modem is a BAD, BAD system!

To test how well the Performa 6360 performed online and offline with the internal 28.8 kbps Geoport Express "software" modem and the external 28.8 Global Village Teleport Platinum hardware modem, I used a shareware application called MacBench® 4.0 by Ziff-Davis. The application used the Power Macintosh 6100/60 as its benchmark (green). The shareware version of MacBench 4.0 ran 3 different tests (Processor, Floating Point, and Disk) in its Main Test Suite. For the remainder of the tests it required the MacBench CD-ROM which I do not have.

• The offline tests were conducted with no additional applications running.
• The online tests were conducted with an Internet connection made through the PPP Control Panel and no other additional applications running.
• The Global Village Teleport Platinum tests were run after the Geoport Express internal modem was removed from the logic board.
• The same set of extensions was used for each test.
• The system software was version 8.0.
• The computer in question is a Performa 6360/160 with 48 MB RAM and a 1.2 GB hard drive.

The image that follows shows the complete test suite. Want to run your own benchmark tests?

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