[G4] Re: Mac Pro: My Verdict

[Robert MacLeay]

On Fri, 8 Sep 2006 08:55:14 -0700, Sims David <dmsims at mindspring.com> wrote:
> On Sep 8, 2006, at 3:43 AM, Tim Collier wrote:
> 
>> Well, I've had my Mac Pro since the 6th and I got the 2.66 gig with
>> 2 gig RAM and dual DVD burners.  It replaced a dual 2 gig G5 with 4
>> gig RAM.  This thing runs rings around the old G5.
[snip]
>> Though the majority of my running Apps are Universal, I did opt to
>> keep Word and Excel (from office 2004) and they actually run faster
>> via rosetta than they did natively on the G5.
[snip]
> Hello,
> 
> Thank you for the "verdict". How does it run the Abode apps compared
> to your previous G5?

MacWorld Magazine just performed a major comparison test using four
representative Macs running several versions of QuarkXPress and InDesign.
The results are a real eye opener.  In some tests, InDesign on a Mac G4-500
MHz beat a dual core 1.6 GHz MacIntel! The hardware your applications were
written for makes a major difference.

Read it yourself at
http://www.macworld.com/2006/09/reviews/quarkboost/index.php?lsrc=mwrss
Scroll down for the table.