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Mac Punditry: Deranged and Dumb on any Processor
This one deserves a thread of it's own. He makes a valid point about something in evidence here in prior Mac-related posts.
I had to post this beginning segment. Besides, it is even Reef-related! http://www.macobserver.com/columns/d...20050610.shtml Quote:
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Paging you know who!
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He's trying to figure out now if he can ban me for using the word "political" in a post.
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So I'm going to have to go out with my girlfriend, but I brought enuf for everyone. Don't tell me how it ends! I'll read the closed thread later tonight
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Pete - You and I both know that you can't go by mhz when comparing RISC and CISC. Power consumption and quantity were IBMs biggest issue. They were unable to deliver the low power version of the G5 which left the whole notebook line in limbo. That being said, supposedly on the developer systems 3.66 P4s, OS X absolutely hauls.
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pnosko = troll
LOL
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I see that you completely ignored this:
The UI tests in Xbench exceed a dual 2.7 by a large margin. (other specific tests are much lower than a G5 per Xbench site results.-Mike) Different architectures do different things better.
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I didn't understand it, and your broad and vague comment doesn't help any.
I see you're the only pundit left; all the other Mac-heads here crawled into the woodwork.
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I was pointing out that that, according to the article, many items also benchmarked slower than the G5. Benchmark data is largely manufactured anyway. I've never help much stock in it personally. I
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The Intel move does not thrill me and I'm not afraid to say it. We've gone from a pokey CISC chip to a supercomputer speed RISC chip to a not-quite-supercomputer speed CISC chip. It's like we took we took one giant leap forward and then fell flat on our collective butts.
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I'm not a MAC head, but having worked in the computer field we have always been able to skew speed tests on a Computer to get a better score. It's just a matter of knowing the tricks
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You call that proof?!?
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Pete, I do not want to get into one of your one sided fights right now. I've been up since 2:30AM. The "proof" you seek can be found if you really wanted to see it and you know that.
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Then how do you explain
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I guess questions based on reality aren't fair, eh?
How about this tidbit? OS X for x86 already in the wild? Quote:
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Hey Pete, I wish I knew enough about computers to say something. But in the mean time, keep poking Doug with that stick. I bet he ban's someone soon.
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Pete, I don't have the energy for the fight that you want this to be.
I will give my take on that article, as I saw it when it was first "leaked." According to all of the information that I was able to come up with, that came out before any developer systems were shipped. IMO, I think Apple created the leak to drive interest. In regard to benchmarks in general, I've been in the computer business far too long to give benchmark data anything more than a glance, especially on a Unix system. Benchmarks aren't viable indicators of real-world system performance. (You've been in the business long enough to know that too.)
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