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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. :-)
"...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.