[CUBE] iMacs hit 1GHz and drop $200

[Thubten Kunga]

I did not know that. Good point. But the dual 1.2 GHz pair are $1,400. 
You think that's worth the difference?

k

Kunga wrote:

>> The single 1.2 GHz processor is the way to go. $750 with 2MB L3 cache.
>> Benchmarks on the PowerLogix site show dual 1.2 GHz not worth the 
>> extra
>> money nor heat.
>> http://www.powerlogix.com/products2/performance/s100.html
>
On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 01:50  PM, Todd Masco wrote:
:
> This is a really bad way to evaluate the effectiveness of multiple 
> CPUs in real world use, because the single tasks being measured have a 
> bottleneck through one processor.  In other words, It's only remotely 
> valid if are only ever trying to do one thing on your computer at once 
> - in other situations the OS will distribute different processes 
> across the CPUs.  You'll see some improvement on the benchmarks 
> because some tasks will run on the second CPU, but you won't see 
> anything close to the full utilization you're likely to experience in 
> daily use with multiple tasks running
>
> Beware using benchmarks without fully understanding the architecture.