On Aug 6, 2010, at 10:59 PM, Chance Reecher wrote:
Erm... I have to disagree with that.
I put 10.5 on my mom's P4 Dell with a 2.8GHz CPU and 1GB of RAM.
It's way more responsive than my 1GHz single MDD and about equal to
my dual 1GHz MDD.
And... flash video is actually watchable and doesn't max out the CPU.
I'll second that. In my experience with OS X, a P4 beats a G4, but
this is an OS X & Flash thing, not a P4 vs. G4 thing. The G4 is the
better/faster CPU. But OS X is optimized for CISC CPUs like the P4, so
when it was ported from Next to Apple the upshot was that about 10-15%
of OS X cycles are totally wasted on a RISC CPU like the G4. See:<http://unsanity.org/archives/000044.php
> (note: this posting correctly foresaw the switch from PPC to Intel
CPUs by Apple several YEARS in advance of the announced changeover.)
When comparing a P4 vs. G4 with OS X a fairer comparison would be
comparing 10.5.8 on the P4 vs. 10.4.11 on the G4. Perhaps if both the
P4 and G4 were running 10.4.11 the G4 might even win, as it should.
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