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Apple's Dual 2GHz By The Numbers

Posted by timothy on from the schmohkin' dept.

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."

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  1. yesss... by potpie · · Score: 4, Funny

    come to the other side of computing... join us... don't be afraid!

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    1. Re:yesss... by jerkychew · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's not me that's afraid. It's my wallet.

  2. hmm... by ILoveMyGeeky1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "it certainly appears poised to meet or beat anything now out on the Windows side."

    Doesn't anything somewhat stable meet or beat anything running windows?

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  3. "you can debate benchmarks until eternity" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    and i'm sure slashdot intends to.

    So, to what productive end do we expect this particular slashdot thread, perhaps the third or fourth on the subject of the G5's supposed speed, to go?

  4. News flash! by dtfinch · · Score: 4, Funny

    New processor is faster than its predecessor.

  5. You are soooooooo right! by mariox19 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're so right, because there's just no way for you to download thousands of UNIX utilities and run configure, make, and make install, and have it run on OS X.

    And aside from the command line, there just aren't any software products, just as you say. Basically, with Macintosh, you get a word process, e-mail client, browser, and that's it!

    And there's really no hope of that ever changing, what with the crappy, hard-to-use development enviroment Apple has released for their platform, and the total indiffernce from the developer community regarding the platform.

    It's a wonder more people don't share the "insight" you do.

    Thanks for the enlightenment!

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  6. Re:Translation: macs don't have much software by cosmo7 · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, in reality the vast majority of PC software has no Mac equivalent.

    This is true. I tried to get "Windows XP Tutor" from the Video Professor guy who's on TV all the time and they don't have it for Mac.

    I bet all their other super high-quality software is PC-only too.

  7. Re:Other side of computing: Linux running on G5 by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was just saying the other day how much my G5 notebook was like a portable Unix workstation. It's not as cool as my G6 notebook, though. I think of that as my portable TIME MACHINE.

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  8. Re:The question is then by aardvarkjoe · · Score: 5, Funny

    You could say that while Linux is the "Unix workalike," OS X is the "Unix workaround."

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