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No More Apple Mysteries Part Two

Posted by Zonk on from the head-to-head-to-head dept.

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.

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  1. we just got one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    we just received one of the intel mac workstations at my office on friday, it looks just like the g5 ones (nice metal case). non-relevant, but i can't wait to do some of my own tests.

  2. No DSP testing though? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Of course if you actually want to see the strengths of the you need to be running code written to use altivec/ve, since that's one of the reasons you've seen xserves cropping up in the scientific community in the first place and why I think you're going in many cases to see IBM Cell workstations start to crop up in their place rather than x86 xserves. SSE is inadequate or at least incredibly messy for many things.

  3. Yes But... by gurutc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    They didn't have performance results for which platform ran Solitaire better.

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