But when I wrote this, all notebooks had ATI - and were upgraded two months ago - with new ATI chips. And the dual 1 GHz and 1.25 GHz PowerMacs still come with an ATI standard (not BTO). As does the XServe.
Similar CPUs are ones in the same family - P3s, P4s, G4s, etc. Compared to the differences clockspeed makes, the architectural differences, for the vast majority of cases, are not significant.
Sure. So when a "slower" chip is actually faster, it isn't.
Macs haven't benchmarked faster than PCs - except for special cases - for _years_.
Wasn't it you who wrote "Of course, since PCs have been more than fast enough for 95% of users for a good couple of years now [...]"? Ahh, maybe I should take anything you say too serious.
By and large, as long as you're comparing similar CPUs, it _is_ that simple.
But what are similar CPUs? Athlons and Pentium [34]s aren't realy, nor are P3s and P4s, and even within those a FSB speed change, a larger L1/L2 cache or Hyperthreading can mess up the scores and make a x MHz model faster than a 1.1*x MHz one at most tests.
Of course, since PCs have been more than fast enough for 95% of users for a good couple of years now, and the people who really care about performance are smart enough to use applicable benchmarks and not marketing brochures, it's largely irrelevant.
Oh yeah, I remember when then happened, it was when Macs beat PCs in MHz numbers and benchmark scores, suddenly it was "But PCs are fast enough for most users anyways";-)
What's the effect of all this, on everyone involved? Well, let's see. People in other countries pretty much benefit. US programmers drop down from their bubble-inflated pay. Some of them may be hurt during the adjustment, since they have to compete with a glut of competitors. The average US citizen likely benefits, since his new patterned carpet was fabricated by a machine that was cheap to produce because an Indian coder did all the software work.
So everyone gets trickle-down benefit. Globalization is, in the long run, good for just about everyone.
Well, it's better for some. If Microsoft (or Corel etc.) gets its software done in India, were will most of the higher profits end up - in India or in Bill Gate's pockets? In the end the poor get a little more money, the middle class gets less, but the rich simply shovel it in.
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Of course doing those tests in Photoshop will take longer than all day, so ...
Well, just don't use Safari to download it ;-)
What excellent language would that be?
Hint: CopyRight != CutLeft
That's like saying that Da Vinci wasn't a good engineer compared to what he did in the arts.
Hey, why not Tony Tebby for QDOS (not related to Q-DOS)? That got Linus into multi-tasking.
Yeah, the next parts of the preview will cut'n'paste completely different parts of the manual ;-)
Let me guess: the words "Ambassador" and "polite" scared the heck out of you, and you went running back to blasting Cyberdemons.
FireWire target disk mode. Works on all current Macs (but XServe), desktop and notebook.
Gotta love Google ;-)
But when I wrote this, all notebooks had ATI - and were upgraded two months ago - with new ATI chips. And the dual 1 GHz and 1.25 GHz PowerMacs still come with an ATI standard (not BTO). As does the XServe.
Not only that, they also ship the majority of graphics chips in Macs.
Oh, where would those games come from - maybe Europe? What did you think, that only Yanks can write Games?
Buy a new iMac, get $500 worth of iApps free.
No way in hell! Jar-Jar's accent isn't half as funny!
Sure. So when a "slower" chip is actually faster, it isn't.
Macs haven't benchmarked faster than PCs - except for special cases - for _years_.
Wasn't it you who wrote "Of course, since PCs have been more than fast enough for 95% of users for a good couple of years now [...]"? Ahh, maybe I should take anything you say too serious.
I just wonder why he first showed it on them (or rather, older ones). Oh well, Carmack.
But what are similar CPUs? Athlons and Pentium [34]s aren't realy, nor are P3s and P4s, and even within those a FSB speed change, a larger L1/L2 cache or Hyperthreading can mess up the scores and make a x MHz model faster than a 1.1*x MHz one at most tests.
Of course, since PCs have been more than fast enough for 95% of users for a good couple of years now, and the people who really care about performance are smart enough to use applicable benchmarks and not marketing brochures, it's largely irrelevant.
Oh yeah, I remember when then happened, it was when Macs beat PCs in MHz numbers and benchmark scores, suddenly it was "But PCs are fast enough for most users anyways" ;-)
So everyone gets trickle-down benefit. Globalization is, in the long run, good for just about everyone. Well, it's better for some. If Microsoft (or Corel etc.) gets its software done in India, were will most of the higher profits end up - in India or in Bill Gate's pockets? In the end the poor get a little more money, the middle class gets less, but the rich simply shovel it in.
And will get pregnant. Oh well, wouldn't want Americans to die out.
Case in point: Kids aren't abstinent. Better give them condoms at least.
Most US non-voters don't vote just so they don't have to lie when they say "Well I didn't vote for him."
It doesn't say that the harddrives were taken from computers. Could have been a RAID tower, a SAN or even a box full of those pull-out HDs.
That would be 'Chem-terror'. Keep your terrors apart.