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In fact a lower Mhz G4 will just about outperform a similar PC (try looking for ACTUAL benchmarks not those Apple PhotoShop thingies). Benchmarks vary but they seem to show that in real world use (ie the 97% of apps which do not use the Velocity Engine) that a 500Mhz G4 is about as powerful as my 600Mhz PIII Sony Laptop.
Therefore Apple's new 733Mhz G4s may be able to compete with Intel's PIII or even the P4 but the benchmarks also show that the 1.2Ghz Althon can easily hammer them all.
MacOS-X does not run XFree86 by default - you have to fiddle with the system a bit so for "ordinary users" it is no where near as good as linux as they are unlikey to want to remove the Aqua GUI.
Surely Intel is doing this because they intend IA-64 to take over the Server/Workstation market when it is released. This way if IA-64 sucks then it won't be in competition with older Intel chips.
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In fact a lower Mhz G4 will just about outperform a similar PC (try looking for ACTUAL benchmarks not those Apple PhotoShop thingies). Benchmarks vary but they seem to show that in real world use (ie the 97% of apps which do not use the Velocity Engine) that a 500Mhz G4 is about as powerful as my 600Mhz PIII Sony Laptop. Therefore Apple's new 733Mhz G4s may be able to compete with Intel's PIII or even the P4 but the benchmarks also show that the 1.2Ghz Althon can easily hammer them all.
MacOS-X does not run XFree86 by default - you have to fiddle with the system a bit so for "ordinary users" it is no where near as good as linux as they are unlikey to want to remove the Aqua GUI.
Surely Intel is doing this because they intend IA-64 to take over the Server/Workstation market when it is released. This way if IA-64 sucks then it won't be in competition with older Intel chips.
Why didn't Apple build X-Windows into Mac OS X in the first place? This seems a little silly since the whole system is based on BSD.