On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 4:09 PM, Bruce Johnson
<john...@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
> On Apr 17, 2012, at 12:49 PM, Douglas Mencken wrote:
>
>>>> Since they killed ppc and put profit above quality,
>>>
>>> Oh puleeeze. Look at the service history of the G5 iMac versus even the
>>> first-gen Intel one, it's no contest.
> I was around at the time, performance was very MUCH on Apple's mind because
> nearly every review of any new Powerbook was 'well, still no G5 powerbook and
> cheaper Wintel laptops are much faster, longer battery life, etc. Apple, was
> losing their place rapidly/
At that time, Apple had iPod, had iPhone. Now *they* are Apple's
market. Macs are only decimals of a single percent in their profit.
So it was okay to go "everybody is using" side, against "think
different". Because *Apple doesn't care for Macs anymore*. Just a
tradition. I bet they would abandon Mac Pros and Xserve in upcoming
years.
> (some wikipedia quotation)
If you are with macs for, say, at least 7 years, as you said, then you
should know. Pentium IV 4GHz vs 2xdual-core ("quad') G5 970MP 2.5GHz.
"Megahertz myth".
And then even x86 Window® systems were started to ship with
single/dual-core 1.6GHz x86 CPUs.
> These were indeed LOWER power than previous designs but for FSM sake those
> WERE the CPUS put into the last gen G5's. Have you ever been into a G5? Seen
> the gargantuan amount of engineering that went into keeping those space
> heaters cool?
I see a "gargantuan amount of engineering that went into keeping those
space heaters" for all x86 systems since 2006-7. Don't you see them?
No more single cooler on power supply. Now it is a lot of coolers
everywhere.
> NO THEY WOULDN'T. Have you actually USED any Intel-based macs, head to head
> against a PPC system? Even the first MacBooks crushed the previous top-end
> Powerbooks, let along the iBooks they allegedly replaced.
I'm using x86 system (i7 quad core) on work. And it is slower
(everywhere: browsing web, watching movies) than my G5 dual 2.3GHz
made back in "late" 2005.
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