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Apple's Dual 2GHz By The Numbers
mallumax writes "ComputerWorld has an exciting review of Apple's Dual 2GHz machine." An excerpt: "It's clear from two weeks of testing that Apple's new Power Mac G5 dual 2-GHz machine is the fastest thing the company has ever produced. And while you can debate benchmarks until eternity, it certainly appears poised to meet or beat anything now out on the Windows side."
Boy, Apple must have really hurt your feelings when they released the G5. Funny how, when the Pentium 4 was faster than the G4, all we heard was how much faster PCs were than Macs. Now that the Mac is faster, speed somehow no longer matters.
You don't like Macs. We get it already. But enough of these rediculous arguments that make no sense and are flat-out wrong.
Go away.
There they were, sitting in the van with all those dials, and the cat was dead. -V. Marchetti, CIA
Uhh, that could be because the Mac isn't faster, at least not if you live outside of the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field.
Don't get me wrong, it's a good chip, and it's plenty fast, but it's the blazing speed-demon that Apple makes it out to be. At best it's about on-par with the top-end P4 systems. A dual Mac G5 runs more or less neck and neck with a dual Xeon 3.06GHz for the most part. Some things are quicker on one system (sometimes by significant margins), some are quicker on others, but overall they're about the same.
Of course, it's slightly tough to document this since Apple hardly ever publishes any industry standard benchmarks. They put out some SPEC scores earlier, but they were pretty sad, easily beaten by low-end PC processors.
Note though: "about the same" is a VERY good thing for Apple! This is a HUGE improvement over the G4, which couldn't even keep up with the low-end Celeron processors in bargin-basement PCs.
I have a nice, new dual G4 powermac sitting in my office with a nice cinerama display, and it never gets used. It's just too loud.