Benchmark, Mac vs PC Round 2

[Annihilatus]

http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/2...w_macvspc2.htm

[serpicolugnut]

Funny... The last PC to Mac benchmark I saw from PC Magazine that utilized Photoshop 7 had the Dual Ghz Mac coming out ahead of the top of the line Sony P4 in the majority of the tests...

I'm suspect of all the bake offs Charlie White controls. He's clearly got an anti Apple agenda, and I always feel like he skews his test to favor the PCs...

I trust the other tests from PC magazine, ZDNet and CNET before I trust this guy - even when they show the PC to come out on top...

[djhpr]

you didnt say DUAL for the wintel, and its a p4

can you say amd dual.. the 2000+ (1.53 ghz, rating rumored to be compared to current gen p4s)

that ran circles around the p4 setup, so what about that against the g4s?

[djhpr]

and i quote from the famous azosx

The G4 is a great processor and when apps are optimized for it, they typically do outperform the competition. Take Photoshop for example. Unfortunately, Other than Photoshop and a few other apps, not much is optimized for the G4 and AltiVec. 128-bit pipeline is great, but it bottlenecks due to inferior RAM and bus speeds. A G3 at the same MHz can be just as powerful in most instances. This is why IBM thinks the G4 is a joke. They know due to todays lazy programmers, it's all about the MHz baby!

Then you have the Athlon. It's the Dodge Viper of the processor industry. Optimized or not, the Athlon will just brute force performance out of any application. The things a beast. No optimization required.

As for the Pentium 4, it's like a Porche. Fast off the line and corners like no other but is only competition against a Viper if the driver knows what he's doing. Like the G4, if people take the time to optimize the apps for the P4 and SSE, it'll likely outperform the Athlon as well.

Dual processors are great but I'm curious as to how many Mac apps are optimized to take advantage of SMP. If they're not, they'll just run off of one processor with no benefit from the second. Even so, the nice thing about SMP is that you can open up a lot more apps without having to worry about your system bogging down. I have a SMP box and burn CDs, rip mp3s and watch DIVX movies all at the same time. People see this and think im crazy because on a UP box, your burn would screw up, your mp3s would sound distorted and the DIVX movie would drop to about 3FPS.

[rharder]

Disappointing results, but as I've said before: I can still edit my video and produce DVDs faster and at a higher quality on my lowly iMac than any Windows-based PC.

-Rob

[hulkaros]

With all these discussions about Apple moving to x86 dark side of the force here are my two cents...

Browse here ASAP:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4541
and here:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4537

I hate Apple abandoning Gx processors because MANY things will change but I hope if such thing EVER happens, they will go with AMD

Anyway, there is no denial that Apple flerts with the Dark Side and I hope that if they do such thing at least give MANY serious thoughts and not just base such a decision on stock market conditions ;(

As for this:
http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/...cw_macvspc2.htm
I have to say only that people, even professionals, some times mess things up: Like when you compare Apples to oranges this is what you get!

Oh please...

They compare less than month old tech stuff of the Dark Side of the Force with tech stuff of the Mac Side of the Force older than 6 months! I want to see their faces when and IF they will benchmark the new PowerMacs which are around the corner (August or September maybe?)

And there is nowhere to be found at that article that Mac rulez!

[azosx]

Originally posted by hulkaros
With all these discussions about Apple moving to x86 dark side of the force here are my two cents...

Browse here ASAP:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4541
and here:
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=4537

I hate Apple abandoning Gx processors because MANY things will change but I hope if such thing EVER happens, they will go with AMD

Anyway, there is no denial that Apple flerts with the Dark Side and I hope that if they do such thing at least give MANY serious thoughts and not just base such a decision on stock market conditions ;(

As for this:
http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/...cw_macvspc2.htm
I have to say only that people, even professionals, some times mess things up: Like when you compare Apples to oranges this is what you get!

Oh please...

They compare less than month old tech stuff of the Dark Side of the Force with tech stuff of the Mac Side of the Force older than 6 months! I want to see their faces when and IF they will benchmark the new PowerMacs which are around the corner (August or September maybe?)

And there is nowhere to be found at that article that Mac rulez!

Hahaha. Nobody replied to this thread so he posted it here in hopes someone would pay attention to his pathetic trolling. Classic!

[hulkaros]

AZOSX posted:
"Hahaha. Nobody replied to this thread so he posted it here in hopes someone would pay attention to his pathetic trolling. Classic!"

To me Azosx you seem to know VERY well the actions and ways of trolls... Aren't you their so-called leader?

Actually I had some replies which were very informative, thank you very much! But because REAL trolls like yourself cannot understand or let alone SEE the real thing, you can continue leave in your trollish M$ environment

However, for those who are REALLY interested why I posted the thread in here, you can go and seek Fryke and learn what smart thing he proposed to me... Then again AZOSX you could not understand a smart thing, uh? You understand only troll-like things like your own kind

AZ-tr-O-ll-SX try this and you will feel immediatelly less trollish:
Buy a Mac and then you will get a life