[G4] Intel vs PPC

[Eric Smith]

Agreed, at the top of the line there's no comparison.
But at the middle of the line it's a different story.
For a headless Mac there's nothing between the Mac Pro
and the mini, nothing at all that compares to the
affordability and expandability that the G4s used to
provide. I wouldn't go to an iMac because of the
integrated display and inability to make upgrades,
and as I said it's mostly laptop parts anyway.
Apple could make a decent midrange system but they
choose not to.

Eric

Frank Sudore wrote:
> There is no comparison between the intel & PPC. I have a Macpro Tower 
> and it blows a Quadcore G5 i sold away. Especially with Photoshop & 
> Cinema 4d.
> Mac made the right move to go to intel although I would of like to have 
> seen what AMD would of done for them.
> On Feb 19, 2009, at 8:52 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> 
>> Aaron wrote:
>>
>>> Aside from having built-in SATA and USB 2.0, are there any advantages 
>>> to G5's over G4's, other than that they were made in (at least 
>>> nominally) much faster versions?
>>
>> Several things made them faster, of course. Higher CPU clock speeds,
>> faster memory, processors designed for SMP from the ground up,
>> Hypertransport on the motherboard. In the later versions you can
>> get dual-core CPUs, meaning you can have 4 cores in the system.
>> PCI-X slots instead of PCI in the early models, while the later
>> models go all the way to PCI-Express.
>>
>>> Also, aside from running Windoze natively, is there any advantage to 
>>> an Intel Mac over a PowerPC Mac?
>>
>> Faster, of course; generally much faster. Intel CPUs do better
>> with heat than PPCs, meaning laptops run cooler (the inability
>> to produce a Powerbook G5 is rumored to be a main reason for the
>> switch - although I think there were other more important reasons).
>> Dual-core CPUs are now standard for Intel Macs.
>> Leopard is the last OS version that will run on PPC systems.
>>
>> On the other hand I think the Intel Macs are not as well built as
>> the PPC systems were, and they are nowhere near as upgradable.
>> iMacs in particular - the current ones contain almost all laptop parts.
>> And you lose Classic mode, unless you want to try a hack like
>> Sheepshaver.
>>
>> Eric
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