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On 6/25/03 11:15 PM, Cyrillius J. Maximus posted: >All this new processor confusion in the mac world is the same as it is >in the pc world > >Its all just a speed issue mac stuck to its "ours is better at half >the speed" until they realized that that just wasn't true and most ppl >wanted more megahertz anyway No, it was more that Macs were better at half the speed -- but they hadn't been at half the speed for several years. That was completely due to Apple's reliance on the Motorola G4 processor. IBM has been able to make faster CPUs for a long time, but Apple wanted AltiVec. You make your bed and then you lie in it. With the Pentium4 at 3.2 GHz, even a costly dual G4/1.42 GHz system will have a hard time keeping up with the best software. Thank goodness Apple finally woke up, got out of that bed, and picked the PowerPC 970. Dual 2.0 GHz 970s will smoke anything on the Wintel side in real world testing -- Photoshop, ripping MP3s, working with digital video, etc. They may lag a bit in gaming, but who needs over 200 frames per second to play a game? Based on a few preliminary figures run on demo hardware and prerelease versions of OS X 10.2.7, it appears that the PPC 970 is approximately 25% more powerful than the G4. And we're talking real application tests here, not SPEC tests that only test the CPU itself. Dual 2.0 GHz 970s would already be 40% faster than the dual G4/1.42 based on clock speed, but with the other efficiencies I suspect they'll come closer to offering 75% more performance than the top-end G4. We'll know more when the magazines and websites get their hands on something besides prototypes running an unreleased version of the OS, but for those who have tasks that require the ultimate level of power, the Intel world will have nothing on Apple come August. -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. <http://cobwebpublishing.com> <http://lowendmac.com> <http://digital-views.com> <http://digigraphica.com> <http://lowendpc.com> <http://reformed.net> Please have your pet peeves spayed or neutered. -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; 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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
