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Title: PC Magazine Reviews Dual 2 GHz G5 apple mac
Post by: amigamad on September 21, 2003, 06:50:23 PM
PC Magazine has reviewed Apple's new dual 2 GHz G5 PowerMac. They say that the performance of Apple's new top of the line workstation is "generally as fast as the best Intel-based workstations currently available". Read the review here dual g5 review (http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1274182,00.asp)

Title: Re: PC Magazine Reviews Dual 2 GHz G5 apple mac
Post by: mikeymike on September 21, 2003, 07:28:48 PM
Who wants to slap PC Mag for not getting their GB/Gb notation even slightly correctly? :-)
Title: Re: PC Magazine Reviews Dual 2 GHz G5 apple mac
Post by: Skyraker on September 21, 2003, 07:53:53 PM
Who wants to be pedantic?
Title: Re: PC Magazine Reviews Dual 2 GHz G5 apple mac
Post by: mikeymike on September 21, 2003, 08:03:08 PM
Pedantic or downright inaccurate?  A gigabit is an eighth of the size of a gigabyte.  Which would you rather have, a gigabit's worth of RAM or a gigabyte?
Title: Re: PC Magazine Reviews Dual 2 GHz G5 apple mac
Post by: Skyraker on September 21, 2003, 08:11:55 PM
Perhaps you could write a letter to the editor.....

/me just loves fishing. ;)
Title: Re: PC Magazine Reviews Dual 2 GHz G5 apple mac
Post by: lempkee on September 21, 2003, 08:44:50 PM
its a pc magazine so go figure...heaps of lamers and heaps of lame hw .... yey

next?
Title: Re: PC Magazine Reviews Dual 2 GHz G5 apple mac
Post by: mikeymike on September 21, 2003, 09:21:15 PM
I cannae be bothered.
Title: Re: PC Magazine Reviews Dual 2 GHz G5 apple mac
Post by: lempkee on September 21, 2003, 09:24:51 PM
me neither :)
Title: Re: PC Magazine Reviews Dual 2 GHz G5 apple mac
Post by: falemagn on September 21, 2003, 11:55:18 PM
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Pedantic or downright inaccurate? A gigabit is an eighth of the size of a gigabyte. Which would you rather have, a gigabit's worth of RAM or a gigabyte?


If you wanted to be accurate, then you should differentiate between GiB and GB, and between Gib and Gb. The ones with the 'i' are the ones you're looking for, as the G prefix is used for powers of ten, not for powers of 2.

Binary SI units (http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html)
Title: Re: PC Magazine Reviews Dual 2 GHz G5 apple mac
Post by: Hammer on September 22, 2003, 05:07:38 AM
Why those benchmarks are limited to 5 to 6 benchmarks?

Other benchmarks
1. Cinema 4D (CineBench)
2. Quake III
3. Unreal Tournament 2003
4. 'etc'...

To bad AMD’s Opteron/AthlonFX  was not included in comparisons....
Title: Re: PC Magazine Reviews Dual 2 GHz G5 apple mac
Post by: Oldsmobile_Mike on September 22, 2003, 08:55:47 AM
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The Dell entry bested the G5 under Adobe Photoshop 7 and NewTek Lightwave 3D


For shame!