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You guys think that Macs are so damn fast? Have a look at this.

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Zombie9920:
This article pits a dual 1ghz G4 machine against a Dual Athlon MP 2000+ machine and a Dell 2.53ghz Pentium 4 Northwood machine. Guess what, the Mac gets its' scrawny lil ass kicked. With that in mind, I don't see how you people can claim PPC is superior to x86. ;P

http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/2002/07_jul/features/cw_macvspc2.htm

Kintaro:
I will compare my PC PIII 850mhz with a mac classic (68k)

Anyway:
Overall the mac is better because it can eject floppys from the software!

TheQuirk:
oh gee, I wonder what computer will be faster.

rtgwbmsr:
This guy (and the whole site) is VERY biased:

1) The main page is very Mac-browser unfriendly (Craploads of pictures, wierd frames).

2) "As expected the Mac did worse....." The "As expected" makes it biased.

3) If he put up a PIII 1 GHz, a dual Athlon 1.4 GHz, and a Dual 1 GHz, and a single 1 GHz Mac, the Macs would OWN the other two. "Macs are much faster than PCs at comparable speeds" The comparable speeds part makes the statement correct.

4) Duh! If you put something about 4 months old up against something else of TWICE the raw speed and that JUST came out against each other, which do you think will win?

5) The reviewer stated that the same settings and codecs were used in all tests. That means that the Mac was stripped of it's dual processor capabilities and it's G4 optimizations, totally crippling the thing! but that would ALSO cripple the P4, as P4 optimizations would be turned off, and the Dual capabilities of the Athlon would be turned off too. If the settings were any different, than it should be marked as such.

6) I am unable to reproduce anything even CLOSE to these numbers, with the same hardware and settings.

So, to sum it all up this guy is totally full of shit somewhere.

ravuya:

quote:Originally posted by Ex Eleven / b0b:

Anyway:
Overall the mac is better because it can eject floppys from the software!
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it looks like Windows caught up with CD-ROMS, by right-clicking a CD-ROM in Windows and picking 'Eject' it will eject. But, nope, Windows won't eject floppies.    Because x86 floppy drives suck.

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