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Intel Developer Macs Outperform G5s

Posted by timothy on from the good-time-to-own-appl dept.

bonch writes "Developers working with the new Intel-based, developer-only Macs are impressed with the performance. The machines take as little as 10 seconds to boot from Apple logo to desktop, and apparently run Windows XP at 'blazing speeds.' Rosetta tests demonstrate the PowerPC-native build of Firefox running just as fast as it does on a high-end G5."

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  1. First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh Yeah!

  2. FP! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First Post!

  3. Blah! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In other new the PS3 is the fastest ever console, with the fastest ever GPU, and the most ever flops performed ever, and the most ever whatchamacallits per doodad in the grand universe.

    And suprisingly the X-box 360 does it even greater and betterer.

    In fact there are a surprising number of promises made by manufacturers and their developers that suprisingly don't live up to the eventual release.

  4. First post by maztuhblastah · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    But not fast enough to get me first post.

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  5. Apple Pros/Insiders: Urgent Question For You by ari_j · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I was going to buy a PowerMac in three weeks. It would replace my PC and bring me to a 100%-Mac setup (I replaced my laptop with a PowerBook in March). I need to buy an iPod before mid-August. I was going to take advantage of the student discounts (hooray for continuing education! ;) that they have right now, with $179 off the iPod if I buy it on the same invoice as a PowerMac.

    Should I just buy the iPod and wait on the PowerMac, or should I buy the PowerMac now? Thank you.

  6. Re:So the G5 were dog slow after all by Augusto · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You are a prophet!

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  7. LOL by dchamp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    (see subject)

  8. ducttape.deeznuts.com by zardie · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Does anyone remember this server? It used to be an MP3 search engine of music that this single server had - must've been about 20 or 30 GB of music. Lasted a year or two, too. Think it was around from 1997-98.