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Apple's G5 Speeds Challenged
An anonymous reader was the first of a seemingly infinite stream of people to submit a URL to an argument that makes the case that the G5 isn't quite what Apple wants you to think of it. The evidence? Apple's own press material. Worth a read.
Al Gore has definately been able to spread his political spinnery into Apple's culture pretty quickly since joining their board. :-)
Hitler style. We should go holocaust on all the mac zealots! Then when we are done, we can go Braveheart style on Steve Jobs ;)
Then the world would be better. Fewer dumb ppl in the gean-pool. Seriously, Im an Amiga fan - first computer back in '85. But Im not rubbing it in everyone's face. I use A PC cause i need to do certian things. Id use a mac, if i wanted to be:
1) GAY
2) Look at HOOKERish graphics
3) Waste CPU on worthless UI features
4) Try to use a UNIX environment, and wish I was using WINDOWS.
PROPS TO ALL WHO DONT USE MACS!
"...As someone else has already pointed out, hyperthreading on the P4 makes it act as a dual processor..." How many times must this be explained... hyperthreading does not equal dual processor. It's simply an optimization for multi-threaded apps. In the end, you still only have one CPU core; the difference is that task switches are performed faster.
"No one likes working in a hamster wheel, and your shop smells of cedar shavings from here." - TaleSpinner
How can you say that using a mac is using an inferior product? Sure the G4 cant keep up with the P4 no matter what apple sais. But anything lost in processor speed is, for me at least, gained back by the OS. Now that the G5 is out and around the speed of intels 3.06ghz processor, how is the new powermac an inferior product? It has faster hardware and i think most of us can agree OS X s a "better" operating system then XP, hands down. I see what you are saying and you're partially right, just dont go calling macs inferior no matter how inflated the benchmarks are.
Horseshit. First, I'm not talking about the results here, I'm talking about their skewing of them, which you can examine yourself. Turning off hyperthreading on a dual-processor system is FLAT CHEATING. Crippling Dell's floating-point is CHEATING. I don't care how it turned out, as that is irrelevant.
It's long been known almost all types of benchmarks can be skewed, and cross-platform benching is a completely subjective science. This fuss is ridiculous. Let's wait until someone gets their hands on a box, and lets us know what it really is like.
In other words, let's make it as subjective as possible so no conclusions can be drawn that might be embarassing to Apple, huh?
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
Do you mod your own posts up because no-one else ever will?
Just curious.
That was classic intercourse!
so you're just an idiot then?
That was classic intercourse!