Jonathan Newman wrote:
I have many PCs and a couple macs running [EMAIL PROTECTED], and today I was upgrading everything to boinc because I was getting problems with classic.It is real world performence that counts. Forget benchmarks. Especially cross platform ones. How can you compare a consumer machine like 1.25 GHz eMac to a top of the line P4 with hyperthreading? Thats a ridiculous comparison to make. Compare the P4 against a G5 like it should be and then run your benchmarks. Are the Mac's performing satisfactorily for you? Do they allow you to be more productive due to the OS? Which machines are more enjoyable to use? There are so many advantages to using a Mac over a PC and your going to base your purchases on a benchmark? Come on, sounds like a troll to me.
Anyways, heres the problem, my slowest PC, a 550MHz P3 w/128MB RAM got 675 on it's whetstone bechmanr, and 1992 on it's drystone.
My B&W G3 running @ 500MHz got: 313 Whetstone, and 731 Drystone! and my B&W has 512MB RAM!
Again my 1.3 GHz P3 Dell laptop got 1390 whetstone, and 2498 drystone
And my 1.25GHz eMac got 587 Whetstone, and 1741 Drystone!
why are my macs clocking in so slow! I was under the impression that the mac were a far superior system, especially for CPU crunching! I figured my 1.25GHz eMac was on par with my 3.0GHz Hyperthreaded P4 (which scored 3372 whetstone, and 3884 drystone) This horrible lag in performance is almost unacceptable! But maybe I'm doing somthing wrong. I dont think I am, but I might be. Does anyone else see this?
Manypeople say that speed in GHz doesn't count. But in my book, MIPS EXTREAMLY important. I expected AT LEAST the exact same MIPS that my 3GHz was doing.
It's actually making me rethink my Apple purchaces!
- Jonathan
Chris Wood
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