On Nov 17, 2006, at 9:01 AM, Warren Nagourney wrote: > I have found it interesting that Apple has taken to using SPEC > numbers to rate its new machines as opposed to their former approach > of using some "real world" applications such as Photoshop. It is no > secret that Intel has mastered the art of getting high SPEC numbers > (some say that they have designed their compilers and even their > hardware around this benchmark, but that is being a little > paranoid...) Formerly, when Apple made PPC machines, they principally > used Photoshop scores and even ran "races" between their computers > and PCs during their yearly "dog and pony" shows. The Macs did much > better than Intel-based computer because of VMX (Altivec). Well, the > Cell can be thought of as Altivec on steroids. I wonder how well it > would run a program like Photoshop? Pretty well, I think.
Should run it quite well, though the re-draw time would suffer from the lack of fast video. BTW - The Local Circuitous City had a grand total of 6 units today, and sold them in about 5 seconds. They are "hoping" to get 3 more "before Christmas". So it will be a while before many of us will be playing with them :-( _______________________________________________ yellowdog-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.terrasoftsolutions.com/mailman/listinfo/yellowdog-general HINT: to Google archives, try '<keywords> site:terrasoftsolutions.com'
