You know whats really sad.. Im one of those Mac people that always bragged about the superior architecture and what not.. Well I got a 'DSP test' song from a Logic Audio user site to test out how much my G4 800 could really do.. Sorry Apple if youre going to tell me that my 800 is whatever % faster than a 2Ghz pentium4. My 800 barely benchmarked even with a DP 500. And these were the first two entries on the chart, meaning the lowest index. Guess what every other machine higher was? Either an Athlon or a P4. The P4's literally doubled the amount of plugins they were able to run. Of course going by 'the megahertz myth' this makes perfect sense.. Looks like the Mhz Myth isnt so much of a myth after all. Oh yeah, and the dual 1Ghz machine, was like #4 on the list. It sucked bad too, but judging from the submitters response to various sound card settings, I dont think he knew what the hell he was doing (probably running a full My Settings extension set, etc..) but man that sure made me rethink my last $1800 purchase on a cpu.. Even with the Altivec enhanced Logic Platinumverb and Spectral Gate, the Intels and AMD's blew my brand new 800 to dust.
On Wednesday, 10, 2002, at 10:29AM, Aaron Willems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Tell me about it, I can't believe Apple would allow the competition to get >so far ahead. I mean the Pentium 4 is running at 2.53GHz with a 533Mhz Bus. >I don't care what Photoshop tests Apple runs, you're not going to out >Perform this running at 1 Ghz. Please.... Here's praying Apple does >something about it. > >-Aaron > > >> I'm waiting for most of the same things, but is there any indication that >we >> might get such a dramatic increase in the bus speed? We've slowly crept >> from 50 to 66 to 100 to 133. >> >> Anyway, I'm looking for the DDR ram, USB 2, Firewire 2, and ATA 100 to all >> come in the low end Power Mac along with a cpu that benchmarks at least >> three times faster than my 733 (which lacks an L3 cache). Now that a dual >> cpu aware os ships by default on all Macs, I'm surprised that Apple hasn't >> brought dual cpu's into more models. >> > > > > >-- >G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... > > Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | > -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | > > Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> > >G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> >Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> > >Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! ><http://www.applelinks.com> > > > -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
