On Sep 29, 2005, at 9:38 AM, Eric Dunbar wrote:
Don't they realise that the Mac mini is *faster* for most operations
than the DP 867 (except those that rely on multiprocessors or
multithreading).
To tell the truth, it depends a lot on what you are doing. I'd put
the DP 867 over the mini for most day to day things and would far
prefer it. Benchmarked on a single thread in cache, yes the mini
would destroy the DP. But, I've used both. And, in my experience
the DP is smoother for most day to day tasks because of the superior
HD speed and parallelisation of processes.
One of the things I do sometimes that really amazes me about the DP
pro machines is modelling. I'll set some program going that takes a
day or so on a single CPU Mac and the machine basically becomes
useless. On a dual CPU Mac you wouldn't know it is running. Now,
most folks can see that I'm just using the single CPU and that seems
to explain the difference. But, the fascinating thing is that if I
split the problem space and run two instances of the model and the
load meter clearly shows both CPUs pinned you STILL can't tell that
the DP machine is doing anything while interacting with it. You
won't run into a problem until you try to play a movie or something.
The superior parallel instruction handling has ramifications far
beyond what one might expect if they haven't used a DP machine.
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