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G5 vs Opteron, Finally
metfoo writes "It's been months since the G5 and Opterons have been available for purchase. When the G5 systems were first released, many Mac bashers and AMD nuts discredited the G5's performance. They always ended their comments with 'Wait until its compared to an Opteron, then we'll talk.' Well, it's finally time to talk. Barefeats has posted an article comparing the two systems. The G5 line was compared to a Dual 2GHz Opteron and the results are impressive. In gaming, the Opteron system proved to be superior, which is partly due to the superior 9800XT over the base Radeon 9800. The G5 spanks the Opteron in many of the non-gaming tests, except for the Photoshop tests."
They're just 6-12 months late.
Warcraft 3 was a simultaneous release. UT2003 was about 6 months later for the Mac. Dungeon Siege was a year; NWN was about a year also.
The Mac isn't as good for gaming. But, if you only care about the popular titles, and not total breadth of titles, it's mostly sufficient.
Agreed!
And let's not overlook the humble 12" iBook, unquestionably the best value in light laptops.
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in the end: you get a mac if you want a mac, and yuo et an amd if you don't want intel.
(do any of us x86 guys really think about getting a mac? i think not: either we are happy with linux and don't bother _any_ commercial os, be it bill-os or steve-os, or we think about switching to linux but don't do, for this or the other reason, all of those reasons applying as well to mac-os.)
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Gentoo is Intel's, AMD's, and IBM's dream-come-true. Of course you need a faster computer. Buy! Buy! Buy!
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well, since darwin is opensource you can just go and check it out for yourself.
for windows, this might prove to be a bit more difficult.
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