User: djfern

What matters is how much faster than a Mac

On: Apple Hardware VP Defends Benchmarks

All this bantering about compilers and SSE and blah blah blah. It's quite funny if you take a step back, or, in my case, just don't fully understand it. ;)

For me, what's important is that as of Monday, the G4 is dead in high end machines and it finally means i can end my personal moritorium. (I'm bitter because i shelled out a lot of money to buy a top-end G3 blue and white to be stung two months later with the announcement of the G4).

I'm happy it kicks my G3's ass by a factor of 10 or more, and I'll happily invest in a new top of the line system. Looking damn forward to an optimized After Effects. mmmmm. drooool.

As far as how fast it is as compared to Intel, I don't use Intel based systems for anything, so it matters about as much to me as car racing specs, sport scores or a new arnold schwarzarepublican movie. :P

Re:I don't get it

On: Apple Introduces Xserve Rackmount Servers

the point of a mac server? for those in education, it's a no-brainer to use - especially compared to Windows NT / 2000.

for Video and graphics, it means you can rackmount these puppies and use them as a rendering farm almost right out of the box.

And for design houses, it's an easy way to adminster a network, set up file and sharing services, etc..

Is it going to run amazon.com? Nope. That's not the market.