--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Oct 15, 2006, at 9:15 PM, new.morning wrote: > > > OK, thanks. The mac pro is less expensive than a similar Dell. > > Surprising, I want to study it more. > > But still, in the benchmarks, other aticle, a two core gateway killed > > the four core Mac running windows apps. Still not a contest yet. > > I've not seen that and it sounds incongruous with benchmarks and > articles I've read--or you're most likely reading or misinterpeting > something. New Mac systems, running XP, run apps as fast or faster > than a comparable wintel machine. In Mac OS X, similar operations run > faster in Mac OS X in Universal Apps. Non universal apps will take a > performance cut. > > In fact the first article I sent had the following quote:
I am drawing from the first article you sent me. The gateway apears to be one dual core right? Thats what I see from reading the Dell spec page. Am i missing something. It does seem odd to run a benchmark of a 2-core vs 4 core machine buit that appears to be wht they did. The AMC pro is two dual cores right? So even if the performance is equal, a two core PC is as good as a 4-core MAC running the came Win aps under windows. That is no contest then. An equivalent test of a 4 core PC would thusly kill a 4 core MAC running win apps under windows. And in this http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/macpro.ars/7 It shows a bout a 10-20% hit when a MAC pro runs a program under its OS vs under windows. So presumably, there is some overhead in the windows "emulator". Sowhile I might consider a mac if similarly priced and if it gave similar peformance for 2x2 MAc against a 2x2 PC, both running windows apps under windows, that seems far from the current case. And as I said, the real questions is a 2x2 comparision of 64 bit, multi-processor optimized win apps running under Vista. I keep my mind open, but if the MAC PRO is so far behind now that a single dual core PC can equal its performance, I have small hopes that it can catch up, particularly in the 64-bit mutilprocessor optimized software / vista environment. But I am sure in your True-Believer MAC ways, you will find some logic to graps to to see MAC as breaking ahead from so far behind. :) To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
