[MacDV] Re: G5

BURTON Chris chris.burton at swift.com
Thu Jun 26 05:53:38 PDT 2003


Joseph,

Unfortunately the G4 was never designed to compete with the P4. I think when it came out it was competing with the P2. And yes, it
was loads faster in that instance. Looking at the comparisons I've seen for the G5 vs P4 (they also had the G4 listed ... that
French site that I can't remember the name of right now) the P4 just absolutely wiped the floor with the G4. No wonder the P4 feels
faster to most people .... it is. Just a fact of life here ... Moto dropped the ball with the PPC development. Like you though, I'll
wait until I can test drive one at the local Apple Store that way I can compare it to the wife's P4 2.4GHz first hand.

Chris

Joseph Tang wrote:

> I ordered my G4/800 DP right after its debut in SFMacworld, Apple was saying
> how freakin fast it will be....Have used it in the past year......it walks
> like a turtle under 10.2 and Photoshop7 and blew off the water by my cheap
> P4-3G PC.
> This round the new comer is the G5/2G DP, i'll keep my hands in my
> pockets.....tellin myself gotta have a hands on in 1 of those apple centers
> before i lay out my bucks.
> Just too many empty promises and bs from apple......
> No flames please, just a thought.
>
> jt
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Charles Martin" <chasm at mac.com>
> To: "Macintosh Digital Video List" <MacDV at lists.themacintoshguy.com>
> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 3:25 PM
> Subject: [MacDV] Re: G5
>
> > > From: "Russ at Skyline" <russ at skylineworks.com>
> > >
> > > I heard that the keynote showed some demos of real world apps that were
> > > pretty amazing. Anyone confirm / deny?
> >
> > I watched the keynote on satellite.
> >
> > Yes, they were amazing. They demoed Photoshop, Lumination (?) (3D
> > program), Renderman, Mathmatica and something else (can't remember). On
> > average, the dual 2GHz G5 was *twice* as fast as the dual 3.06GHz Xeon.
> >
> > Boo-yah!
> >
> > _Chas_
> >
> > "With the introduction of the new iTunes Music Store, we've now built
> > the  first real complete ecosystem for the digital music age. We've got
> > a way to buy music online legally that's fantastic -- it's better than
> > any other way to acquire music. We've got a way manage music with the
> > iTunes  Jukebox, which is the best in the world. And we've got a way to
> > listen to music on the go with the iPod, which is the most popular MP3
> > player in the world and one of the coolest things in the world. So
> > we've really got, from one end to another, a complete solution for
> > digital music. We're the only people in the world to do this, so we
> > feel great about it." -- Steve Jobs, Time Magazine, 30-April-03
> >
> >
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