Re: Compare Apple to Orange (err.. I mean Pentium)

2004-03-24 Thread Tom Burke
On Wednesday, March 24, 2004, at 03:54 pm, G-Books wrote: Subject: Re: Compare Apple to Orange (err.. I mean Pentium) A long time ago, a P3 had to be almost double the clock speed of a G3 to be equal (in some things). When the P4s came out, they had to be double the speed of a P3 to compete

Re: Compare Apple to Orange (err.. I mean Pentium)

2004-03-24 Thread Hal
On Mar 23, 2004, at 9:26 PM, Timothy J. Luoma wrote: On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Clyde Kahrl wrote: A long time ago, a P3 had to be almost double the clock speed of a G3 to be equal (in some things). When the P4s came out, they had to be double the speed of a P3 to compete with the P3! You lost me ther

Re: Compare Apple to Orange (err.. I mean Pentium)

2004-03-23 Thread Timothy J. Luoma
On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Clyde Kahrl wrote: > It's really hard to compare G4s to P3s because of the intervention of > things like operating systems, software, buses, disk drives, and so > forth. Sure, understood. the "Apples to Oranges" does apply... > A long time ago, a P3 had to be almost

Re: Compare Apple to Orange (err.. I mean Pentium)

2004-03-23 Thread Clyde Kahrl
It's really hard to compare G4s to P3s because of the intervention of things like operating systems, software, buses, disk drives, and so forth. I never cease to be amazed at how one system can be clearly superior to another on a bunch of photoshop filters, and then get totally clobbered on a

Compare Apple to Orange (err.. I mean Pentium)

2004-03-23 Thread Timothy J. Luoma
Is there anywhere I can some sort of a 'real world' comparison between a Pentium and G4? I'm not looking for crazy "Pantyum Sux" basically I'm just trying to figure out how much faster a G4/1.25GHz would be compared to a 650mhz/Pentium 3) I don't need to be convinced that G4/G5 is better than Pent