On Mar 22, 11:57 am, Bruce Johnson <john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
> Oh puleeeze. You're claiming a dual 1.25 Ghz G4 on a 333 mHz bus can compare > to a Mac Pro (which at a MINIMUM has 2 2.66Ghz dual core Xeons with 667 Mhz > memory bus) with a few COMPILER TWEAKS??? (which tweaks, BTW, Apple's dev > tools pretty much apply automatically when you select PPC as a compile target) > i never claimed any such thing! re-read the post, bruce. if you want to "win" the discussion so desperately that you will resort to putting words in my mouth, then you only underscore the weakness of your own position. what i said was that PPC versus intel of comparable clock speeds was no contest. given software well written for each, the PPC was damned near twice as fast as the intel on real world computationally intensive tasks. it used to give me great pleasure to point to execution times on my 2 GHz G5 versus their 2.7 GHz pentium win/tel boxes, and shut the mouths of the "apples are for kids" pc diehards. and the reason is that the PPC architecture is inherently superior to the intel architecture. period. the preposterous statement above came from your fevered imagination. the same imagination that dreamed up a dual 1.25 G4 with a 333 MHz bus. the only dual 1.25 i know of was the MDD/FW800 with a 166 MHz bus. nowadays, my 3.33 GHz intel iMac running snow leopard is barely as fast as their 3.33 GHz i7 running winbloze 7. given the difference in cost, it no longer makes much sense to throw money in steve jobs coffers just so i can hang on to the familiar OSX interface. since the computer works for weeks without any need for user interface, the OS is pretty irrelevant. so i stand by my premise, PPC with Altivec was/is vastly superior to intel crap. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
