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

Neon Lights Help

[Anonymous Coward]

It is clear that if you plan to run MySQL on Apple hardware, it is better to install YDL Linux than to use OS X. If you need excellent read performance, the maximum performance of your server will be up to 8 times better.

I also find that neon lights and a clear side panel with a dragon decal on it helps.

Re:Where are the workstation tests?

[Red Flayer]

"At the desktop level, no one's going to be working with thousands of simultaneous threads.

Although, that would explain the quality of /. moderation.

jk... I think it works quite well in general.

iSQL

[RUFFyamahaRYDER]

No worries... Apple will come out with iSQL and things will be all better.

Re:iSQL

[RUFFyamahaRYDER]

iSorry... =(

i'm confused ...

[SamSeaborn]

I looked at the article, but I'm confused. Where's the pretty graphs showing that Mac is better than Windows?

Sam

But there's so much more!

[Mr. Underbridge]

Just post a story every day that says: "Companies sued other companies over pantents they shouldn't have, the *AA's are illegally abusing power they don't have and Apple did something so fantastic I crapped my pants."

But there's so much more here at slashdot! Let's add "Companies are also suing other companies over patents/trademarks/copyrights they don't actually have." That covers SCO and the recent LMI stories.

We also have the occasional:

"Somone built a PC out of weird parts,"

"Big brother gained new, over-reaching powers that will bring society to its knees,"

"Some OSS figurehead (Stallman, Raymond, etc) said something idealistic/naive/irrelevant/stupid/arrogant,"

"Researchers at a small University made some irrelevant, impractical advance in so-called nanotech that will never affect anyone but makes us crap our pants,"

"Europe is far more enlightened than the US because...,"

"Some government switched from Windows to Linux,"

"Some government used Linux as a ploy to get cheaper Windows pricing,"

"Someone at Google farted,"

"Roland Piquepaille got a story on his 'blog' accepted by ripping off the AP feed,"

"Fudged TCO studies show that OS 'A' is cheaper than OS 'B,' and far cheaper than OS 'X'..."

"Microsoft is still evil,"

"An exploit is discovered in Windows that allows...,"

"Will we be able to do in 100 years some ridiculous thing that I've read about in tons of sci-fi novels but is completely pointless in real life?"

... etc. Yes, this is our slashdot.

Re:MySQL?

[fimbulvetr]

This sounds like a flat out lie from Apple. Not the kind of behaviuor you should expect from a *nix vendor.

Uhh, you've never worked with Sun Microsystems, have you?

Re:MySQL?

[squiggleslash]

Because the entire point of the article is to work out why it doesn't work! Trying to work out why MySQL doesn't work by ignoring it and using PostgreSQL instead isn't going to get you many useful answers. Useful analogies:

• You bring your car to a mechanic. You come back later to ask the mechanic what was wrong, who promptly tells you he found your car didn't work so he drove an entirely different one instead (Obligitory Slashdot Car Analogy)
• The Director of FEMA finds that New Orleans is under water. So he evacuates Chicago. (Obligitory current affairs analogy)
• There's a problem with the lock on your door. You bring in a locksmith, who asks why you don't just go in through the window? (Obligitory locks on house Analogy)
• You go to Wendy's and find a finger in your chili. So you sue MacDonalds (Obligitory reference to poorly understood lawsuit Analogy)
• Your computer program runs slowly and inefficiently. So you rewrite it in Python (Obligitory, probably justified, attack on Python Analogy)
• You're trying to work out whether "The Brothers Grimm" is a great movie. So you read the reviews of "Harry Potter: Revenge of the Sith" (Confusing movie analogy)
• You feel the country needs a better President, one with experience and an understanding of wars, one with the ability to engage others and move this country forward, to seek and resolve conflicts peaceably where possible, one that strongly believes in personal freedom, in freedom of thought, one that copes with national disasters and can unite the country in even the worst of circumstances - so you vote for George W. Bush, again (Obligitory (justified) Bush Bashing Analogy)
• You don't understand why your dog will not eat the dog food you got him, so you get a car. (Obligitory other/miscellaneous Analogy)

I hope all those analogies helped. Let me know if you have any problems.