Posted by
CmdrTaco
on from the no-surprises-here dept.
Les writes "Mac insider site Think Secret has its scoop on what Apple CEO Steve Jobs will announce at Macworld Expo in New York next week. The site says that Power Mac G4s won't be updated until August, but we'll instead see a 17" flat-panel iMac and a demo of OS X 10.2 Jaguar."
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by
nosferatu-man
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We'll let the numbers speak for themselves:
SPEC CPU 2000
P4 2.0 ghz : 745/743 G4 1.0ghz : 306/187 (!)
Oops. Of course clock speed is not a meaningful measure of performance across architectures. SPEC, the only really useful general purpose benchmark, is.
Altivec is a wondrous thing, but the majority of work that your computer is going to do is not vectorizable, or requires DP floating point, in which case, Altivec buys you nothing. And the pathetic memory subsystem on the Macintosh really hurts when you/do/ get to use Altivec, as it can't feed the G4 fast enough.
And trying to trot out the term "RISC" in this discussion is meaningless, and only highlights your ignorance (to say nothing of "386 co-processor".) Do yourself a favor and learn about CPU architectures before you post on the subject again, thanks.
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Thanks to file sharing, I purchase more CDs
Thanks to the RIAA, I buy them used...
We'll let the numbers speak for themselves:
/do/ get to use Altivec, as it can't feed the G4 fast enough.
SPEC CPU 2000
P4 2.0 ghz : 745/743
G4 1.0ghz : 306/187 (!)
Oops. Of course clock speed is not a meaningful measure of performance across architectures. SPEC, the only really useful general purpose benchmark, is.
Altivec is a wondrous thing, but the majority of work that your computer is going to do is not vectorizable, or requires DP floating point, in which case, Altivec buys you nothing. And the pathetic memory subsystem on the Macintosh really hurts when you
And trying to trot out the term "RISC" in this discussion is meaningless, and only highlights your ignorance (to say nothing of "386 co-processor".) Do yourself a favor and learn about CPU architectures before you post on the subject again, thanks.
'jfb
Links:
http://www.heise.de/ct/english/02/05/182/ (G4 SPEC, unofficial)
http://www.spec.org (P4 SPEC)
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