[thechat] Mac new stuff
Martin Burns
martin at easyweb.co.uk
Tue Jun 24 17:16:12 CDT 2003
On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 07:58 pm, Madhu Menon wrote:
> So... does this dude make valid points:
> http://www.haxial.com/spls-soapbox/apple-powermac-G5/index.html
Ish.
It'll be difficult to compare generally, as
1) The Mac system wasn't running Panther, so the 64-bitness wasn't
happening (at least as significant as hyperthreading imo - it's a
crippled Mac system)
2)The Dell systems weren't running WinXP (let alone Longhorn), but
RedHat9
3) Neither are running any kind of window manager, so they're not
exactly real world tests. The efficiency of the visual layer is
significant
4) The Dells are running with an extra half gig of RAM
Cheers
Martin
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