Intel Mac comes very poor second to PPC

[DonnyEMU]

OMG I read this thread and can't believe what I am reading.. I have sat with a Mac G5 and an Intel Mac G5 side-by-side at CompUSA here in Michigan in the USA.. The things you guys are complaining about with the Intel CoreDuo is all in your MINDS (can we say anti-intel bias still get OVER IT!). It almost smacks of being computer processor religious.

Sure things that run in emulation are runnning in emulation and are SLOWER (it's emulation DUH!), but things that aren't are about 2-3x faster. I could notice things like load times, processing a wave audio file and editing it. I could also notice serious speed in one of the native rendered demos.

The thing of it is, the Apple machines are middle of the road PCs they aren't the fastest and best. So far Apple has released machines that are in the middle of the curve for performance and that people can actually afford to buy, so yeah they could be faster, but they are just fine. It's arrogent to assume that these machine would be a "top of the heap" PC..

I have used Intel Darwin before and it's DAMN fast, so the things that you are making these silly judgements on don't really apply. Plus I don't see many apps that are native that are optimized for more than 1 cpu yet either..

-Don

PS to quote a famous guy's saying "There are lies, Damn Lies, and Benchmarks"

[DonnyEMU]

Sure he didn't say it as clearly as he could, but if you read the whole thing and put that last bit into context, you 'll see that:-

Hey I have been looking at these machines, I am probably going to go out and buy a Mac Mini (x86) single core. It's only a pawltry $500US and comes with a bunch of native software. If I need office I will just download open office.

As far as this Intel vs AMD things goes (which I see as a separate issue). I have a Dual Core Windows Vista Box (just for testing software I write) and I have to say in my humble opinion it's the fastest thing on this earth (LOL yeah I am biased).

 :crazy:

With both SLI and two 6800GS nVidia PCI-Express cards in the machine, it certainly is a DIFFERENT world.

What a difference two CPUs make, well let me tell you WHAT A DIFFERENCE two GPUs make, Screen redraw/repaint/compositing never suffers and the cards cost me less than $200 a piece..

I look forward to to seeing Macintels suporting SLI and CROSSFIRE...

You guys are supposed to like Multimedia stuff. FrontRow and Windows Media Center both are really great multimedia librarians/jukeboxes. Now if FrontRow just supported uPnP 802.11x wireless players.. I have my media center box also servicing the whole house, but not a computer everywhere..