No More Apple Mysteries Part Two

UltimaGuy writes "Anadtech has an article up comparing the IBM G5 with Intel's CPU. This gives us insight on the strength and weakness of Mac OS X. It also has some thoughts of what they perceive to be OS X's Achilles Heel." From the article: "That is what we'll be doing in this article: we will shed more light on the whole Apple versus x86 PC, IBM G5 versus Intel CPU discussion by showing you what the G5 is capable of when running Linux. This gives us insight on the strength and weakness of Mac OS X, as we compare Linux and Mac OS X on the same machine. The article won't answer all the questions that the first one had unintentionally created. As we told you in the previous article, Apple pointed out that Oracle and Sybase should fare better than MySQL on the Xserve platform. We will postpone the more in-depth database testing (including Oracle) to a later point in time, when we can test the new Apple Intel platform." This is the sequel to another article, reported on in June.

Comments

Not A Good Benchmark

[RickHunter]

MySQL? That's pretty much all you need to see to know that these guys don't know what they're doing.

Re:Um, yeah...

[Lars T.]

They've already shown that gcc doesn't produce apples-to-apples results, and now they've shown that it doesn't produce improving (or even consistent) results in newer versions.

Actually, you don't like the results because they have shown improving results in newer versions - for the G5.