On Jan 11, 2006, at 11:18 AM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Jan 11, 2006, at 10:19 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 10:05 AM -0500 01/11/2006, bobgir2004 wrote:
> If those published stats hold up to real world comparisons, that's
> one helluva impressive laptop.
Before we wet our collective pants on this one, best first check out:
http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisemac/archives/2006/01/
the_mac_perform.html
Apple used multiprocessor benchmarks to skew the performance
advantage that
> its Intel-based machines enjoy compared to single-core PowerPC G4
and G5.
oops.
The devil is in the details.
The cinebench benchmark, which shows a 3x improvement, is an
application-level benchmark that's pretty useful for predicting how
well it performs real-life in CPU intensive tasks. both within and
across architectures.
People who whinge about *only* 3x faster should be shot...
--
Bruce Johnson
Go ahead and shoot me then Bruce 'cause 3x is NOT enough for me to
throw everything away and buy a whole new computer.
Z
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