Windows 7 Performance on Mac

I recently bought a Mac mini and wondered how it's NVidia GeForce 9400M graphics would stack up against an older PC with an NVidia GeForce 8600 GT. The Mac uses 256 MB of memory that it shares with OS-X. The PC has 256 MB of dedicated memory on the graphics card.

Windows 7 RC (build 7100) has a built-in system benchmark that includes graphics tests. I installed it on the Mac in a boot-camp partition using boot-camp version 2.1 drivers.

	Mac Mini	Dell GX-280
Processor	5.4	3.8
Memory (RAM)	5.5	4.9
Graphics	5.2	5.7
Gaming graphics	4.4	4.9
Primary hard disk	4.9	5.3
Base score	4.4	3.8

The processor and RAM show the difference a few years make but the Mac mini graphics can't keep up with a decent dedicated card. The laptop drive in the mini is slower than the desktop drive in the PC.

I'd love to see how the MacBook Pro with the optional NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT discrete graphics processor does. It'd be great to see how the Solid-State drive does too.