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Intel Developer Macs Outperform G5s
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."
the only way they could prevent it running on standard hardware is to try harcode in some kind of depenency check for some vendor chip. and there's no way i would support such retarded ideas. don't buy into this kind of crap, please.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Your American math sucks the cockfoolery.
700 MHz to 2000 MHz is a 185% increase.
800 MHz to 3000 MHz is a 275% increase.
If you can't do such basic math, then I don't believe anything you say.
Cyric Zndovzny at your service.
It also seems to me that Firefox on Mac has significantly more stability problems and, from my experience, memory leaks.
Me too. Firefox crashes every couple of days on my Mac Mini. Or it'll freeze up and hog the CPU, requiring a 'force quit'.
Also, I've found OSX itself to be quite prone to locking up, with 'exposé' abruptly dying along with the iconbar thing along the bottom, and all minimise buttons. Or the entire machine grinding to a halt, with UI responding every 7 seconds or so. The force quit dialog is useless and a prolonged press of the power button and a restart is all that works.
I must be hallucinating, because as we all know, Macs are without flaw...
Sounds to me like some MSFT || Intel || Wintel marketing 'droids have slipped in among the
... convince me if you can.
Apple Developer Network. Good ol' Steve Jobs&Co. wouldn't pull any wool over my eyes, would he?
Pardon me for being somewhat skeptical, since I have seen 32-bit and 64-bit apps running on MIPS and UltraSPARC hardware. Sometimes 32-bit apps on those platforms would run faster, not slower, on the 64-bit hardware, but 64-bit apps just don't run on 32-bit processors -- period.
When the difference in architecture and system throughput allows a 2.2 GHz G5 to run faster than a 3.2 GHz x86, such preliminary nonsense like Boot-Time make little real difference. (Yes, I do realize that Wintel users must reboot more frequently, thus making this a "significant" first benchmark for them.)
A crippled 32-bit processor/chipset cannot begin to compete with a stroked-out 64-bit processor/chipset, given disk speed and memory size as common criteria. Show me honest-to-goodness benchmarks, with real-life applications (including GCC compiler switches), but don't try to pawn off some BS Boot-Time as legitimate