[X4U] New Pentium Macs

[Eugene]

This is not sobering.  This is reality.  But the worst is that
Apple was well-aware for some time that PowerPC could no longer
compete, regardless of broken promises from Motorola and IBM.
Things like the Velocity Engine (i.e. AltiVec) were stopgaps.


On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:13:49PM CST, eleventhvolume <colin at eleventhvolume.com> wrote:
: 
: Rather sobering article for those - like me - contemplating purchasing an
: Intel Mac at this point in time:
: 
: > our tests found the new 2.0GHz Core Duo iMac takes rougly 10 to 25 percent
: > less time than the G5 iMac to perform the same native application tasks,
: > albeit with some notable exceptions. (If you'd prefer, that makes the Core Duo
: > iMac 1.1 to 1.3 times as fast.) And we also found that applications that
: > aren?t yet Intel-native?which must run using Apple?s Rosetta code-translation
: > technology?tend to run half as fast as the same applications running natively
: > on the iMac G5.
: 
: http://www.macworld.com/2006/01/features/imaclabtest1/index.php?lsrc=mwrss


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Eugene
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