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Apple Issues New G5 Benchmarks
rocketjam writes "According to an article in The Register, Apple has issued SPEC benchmarks for the new dual G5 2GHz machines, comparing it to a two-way Dell Xeon and a 3Ghz Pentium 4 machine. The article says the G5 lagged behind the Dells in integer performance, however in 'the parallel "rate" benchmarks, which tax both of the CPUs in the test machines, the G5 edged out the Xeon 17.2 to 16.7 in the integer score and 15.7 to 11.1 in the floating point tests, suggesting Apple makes far better use of its two CPUs than the Xeon machine....the results augur well for Apple G5 performance in technical and scientific computing environments and for playing games.'"
Having been forced to use Macs throughout my college career, I've used them quite a bit. While the lack of software sucks, my biggest problem has always been Macs inherent inability to multitask. Most Macs simply can't handle the way I work. I can crash most if them in a matter of seconds, given they have any memory intensive programs. The latest models I used were dual processor G4's with several gigs of memory. How I crashed these, I don't know, but I assure you it didn't take very long. On the other hand, I've had my PC crash once in 6 months of use. I contend that MacOS isn't nearly as stable as some might contend.