I find it amazing the fury which the G5 and Job's keynote speech is causing. Why are so many/.'s stressed out about the G5?
Seems pretty obvious to me:
1. The 2GHz 970/G5 is a respectfully fast chip and compares well to the current best desktop chips made by Intel, etc.
2. The 970/G5 may well have more headroom in terms of future speed improvement. IBM is only using a 130 A process, so you just know that there will be announcements by Christmas about still faster G5s. IBM is no Moto and you know that IBM will push the performance envelope. So just maybe you will have a harder time of heaping dung on future head-to-head comparisons?
3. The G5 runs 32 bit code and 64 bit code at the same time. That makes it easy for macheads to move to the new processor while you do have a bit of a compatibillty problem on the other side of the street, don't you?
4. Apple's prices for these new machines aren't too bad. Kinda takes away from your price argument.
5. Apple's latest supercomputer brag got you pissed off? Why? I am sure that we could devise one test showing a '86 machine faster at doing something and a G5 faster at doing something else. So what? The only real issue should be is which machine makes you faster and better at what you do. If what you do involves at lot of inteaction with a monitor, keyboard & mouse, that will probably be a very personal decision which will be largely based on what you are used to or comfortable with.
I suspect that what has you realy annoyed is that Apple is a small company with a puny marketshare which seems to make more noise than it's size warrants.
Frankly, I like to see the underdog do well. If apple had 80% of the market (heaven forbid), then I am sure would be pulling for microsoft.
So why does it stick in your craw to see the small guy get his licks in once in a while? Chances are that his licks have made your machine better today than it otherwise would have been.
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I find it amazing the fury which the G5 and Job's keynote speech is causing. Why are so many /.'s stressed out about the G5?
Seems pretty obvious to me:
1. The 2GHz 970/G5 is a respectfully fast chip and compares well to the current best desktop chips made by Intel, etc.
2. The 970/G5 may well have more headroom in terms of future speed improvement. IBM is only using a 130 A process, so you just know that there will be announcements by Christmas about still faster G5s. IBM is no Moto and you know that IBM will push the performance envelope. So just maybe you will have a harder time of heaping dung on future head-to-head comparisons?
3. The G5 runs 32 bit code and 64 bit code at the same time. That makes it easy for macheads to move to the new processor while you do have a bit of a compatibillty problem on the other side of the street, don't you?
4. Apple's prices for these new machines aren't too bad. Kinda takes away from your price argument.
5. Apple's latest supercomputer brag got you pissed off? Why? I am sure that we could devise one test showing a '86 machine faster at doing something and a G5 faster at doing something else. So what? The only real issue should be is which machine makes you faster and better at what you do. If what you do involves at lot of inteaction with a monitor, keyboard & mouse, that will probably be a very personal decision which will be largely based on what you are used to or comfortable with.
I suspect that what has you realy annoyed is that Apple is a small company with a puny marketshare which seems to make more noise than it's size warrants.
Frankly, I like to see the underdog do well. If apple had 80% of the market (heaven forbid), then I am sure would be pulling for microsoft.
So why does it stick in your craw to see the small guy get his licks in once in a while? Chances are that his licks have made your machine better today than it otherwise would have been.