Well, as u said that benchmark uses floating point operations heavily, but the target CPU you used is the pentium3, which only supports single precision arithmetic with its SSE. Perhaps that's the reason for the performance being lower than expected.
Honestly, I see no point in switching. Who's gonna pay 129 dollars just for a brushed-metal finder? No performance enhancements, no nothing. Those improvements in the network are are nice, but I still think it's worthless, specially because most people don't care whether NFS lock works or not.
I know people are gonna bash me like crazy because of this (curse u apple lovers:p), but u guys are/.ers not people who are alienated about computers, as most people in the world are.
Now that the PPC-970s are confirmed for desktop, what happens with Apple's mobile line? Most unix admins that switched to Apple switched to a Powerbook G4. Are they going to make a 64 bits laptop? The marketing certainly would love it. What about the iBooks? Maybe they will be the G4's now...
Just my.05:-)
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No. The ball lightning is formed by tapping three mountains and spending three red mana on it.
I think it's better if we just fnord everything about this...
1) Make a PORTABLE BEOWULF CLUSTER OF THESE! 2) ???? 3) PROFIT! And always remember. In Soviet Union, THEY make mobile clusters of YOU!
Now imagine a beowulf cluster of those... No, wait. Nevermind. lol
Well, as u said that benchmark uses floating point operations heavily, but the target CPU you used is the pentium3, which only supports single precision arithmetic with its SSE. Perhaps that's the reason for the performance being lower than expected.
Honestly, I see no point in switching. Who's gonna pay 129 dollars just for a brushed-metal finder? No performance enhancements, no nothing. Those improvements in the network are are nice, but I still think it's worthless, specially because most people don't care whether NFS lock works or not. I know people are gonna bash me like crazy because of this (curse u apple lovers :p), but u guys are /.ers not people who are alienated about computers, as most people in the world are.
Apple sent me new Mac today..
It was tight..
But my dog ate it...
It was a really good new mac..
Bummer...
Can u guys stop using the name of the great Wing Commander 3 for such a lame game as Warcraft3? Use War3 instead of WC3... Yes.. Mod me troll... :p
Now imagine a bewoulf cluster of these...
Where's the creativity apple? U guys should name it H1. Yeah. Hold on.. Nope.. Never mind..
Maybe that's why the original topic was "Gentoo's portage to be ported to mac os x" heh
Since when did Moto start following road maps? :-0
Now that the PPC-970s are confirmed for desktop, what happens with Apple's mobile line? Most unix admins that switched to Apple switched to a Powerbook G4. Are they going to make a 64 bits laptop? The marketing certainly would love it. What about the iBooks? Maybe they will be the G4's now... Just my .05 :-)