Apple's Dual 2GHz By The Numbers

mallumax writes "ComputerWorld has an exciting review of Apple's Dual 2GHz machine." An excerpt: "It's clear from two weeks of testing that Apple's new Power Mac G5 dual 2-GHz machine is the fastest thing the company has ever produced. And while you can debate benchmarks until eternity, it certainly appears poised to meet or beat anything now out on the Windows side."

yesss...

[potpie]

come to the other side of computing... join us... don't be afraid!

My tests

[tcd004]

The G5 is great, but it doesn't hold a candle to my Powerstack 5000. [lostbrain.com]

Maybe because it's processor is based on this bad boy. [lostbrain.com]

Tcd004

hmm...

[ILoveMyGeeky1]

"it certainly appears poised to meet or beat anything now out on the Windows side."

Doesn't anything somewhat stable meet or beat anything running windows?

"you can debate benchmarks until eternity"

[Anonymous Coward]

and i'm sure slashdot intends to.

So, to what productive end do we expect this particular slashdot thread, perhaps the third or fourth on the subject of the G5's supposed speed, to go?

News flash!

[dtfinch]

New processor is faster than its predecessor.

How long does it take to copy a 17Mb file?

[Anonymous Coward]

Thats the true test! Can it beat my Water cooled overclocked Dual Athlon-64FX51 with RAID-5 20K SCSI drives using LFS with kernel 2.6.0-test-7-mm with 3dnow2 extentions enabled?

Re:yesss...

[jerkychew]

It's not me that's afraid. It's my wallet.

Re:Fastest thing ever?

[telbij]

How naive are you? The G5 isn't just about speed, it's about how cool you are. Spending $4000 on a G5 easily makes you more than 15 times cooler than your PC, even (especially?) if you only plan to play your extensive MP3 collection on it.

Congrats! You are no longer using CaveOS!

[Cordath]

Let me guess... You just upgraded to a G5 running BSD-based OS X from an older mac running an older version of MacOS. Congradulations! You are now using a mordern operating system capable of basic multi-tasking!

Just don't ask how long Linux or even Microsoft users have been able to do the same thing. It will probably depress you.

Re:what suck is...

[RdsArts]

It's nice to have so much processing power but unless there's plenty of software the mac will be limited to running a specific function such as movie editing or photoshop

Which is basically what this would be best at.

I mean, really, do you need a dual G5 to launch Mozilla?

Well... I mean other than the 1.4 branch. ;)

If your video editing, you most likely want only three things: power, power, and more coffee. This appears to provide at least two of those.

Now, if your going to complain about the "lack of software" for doing AV work on a mac, I'm honestly going to have to ask what drugs you've done today: that's pretty much been their main market since time began.

You are soooooooo right!

[mariox19]

You're so right, because there's just no way for you to download thousands of UNIX utilities [gnu.org] and run configure, make, and make install, and have it run on OS X [sourceforge.net].

And aside from the command line, there just aren't any software products [apple.com], just as you say. Basically, with Macintosh, you get a word process, e-mail client, browser, and that's it!

And there's really no hope of that ever changing, what with the crappy, hard-to-use development enviroment [apple.com] Apple has released for their platform, and the total indiffernce from the developer community regarding the platform.

It's a wonder more people [dvorak.org] don't share the "insight" you do.

Thanks for the enlightenment!

Re:Not quite

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course, you're right. If there were competition for Macintoshes, then the average street price would be infinity. Because, robbed of their revenue stream, Apple would go out of business, and there would be no Macintoshes available at all, at any price.

That would, indeed, be "a lot different." You warthog-faced buffoon.

Re:Translation: macs don't have much software

[cosmo7]

No, in reality the vast majority of PC software has no Mac equivalent.

This is true. I tried to get "Windows XP Tutor" from the Video Professor guy who's on TV all the time and they don't have it for Mac.

I bet all their other super high-quality software is PC-only too.

Re:The question is then

[Tim Doran]

I'd be happy to take that thing off your hands, if you'd like.

Just doing my thing to control (noise) pollution... I live to give.

My thoughts on your fine essay

[Anonymous Coward]

"The point is: Macs and OSX just work and they're beautiful!"

I wish we could pass a law so that people like you wouldn't be allowed to use computers.

That would make everyone... both PC and Mac users... feel better.

Re:no thanks

[Anonymous Coward]

maybe, but there's also lots of hot artsy chicks.

Re:And it's totally wasted on the unwashed masses

[zulux]

If you can afford a Hummer, you can afford a nice luxury sports car

Yeah.... but... The Hummer has room for three skanks.

Re:Other side of computing: Linux running on G5

[Ohreally_factor]

I was just saying the other day how much my G5 notebook was like a portable Unix workstation. It's not as cool as my G6 notebook, though. I think of that as my portable TIME MACHINE.

Re:The question is then

[aardvarkjoe]

You could say that while Linux is the "Unix workalike," OS X is the "Unix workaround."

Re: Fastest thing ever?

[raodin]

I think for a lot of people, the real reason has always been price. Spending $2000+ on a computer just doesn't appeal to most people. They just don't want to admit they can't afford it, so they resort to other excuses ;)

Fanatics

[Anonymous Coward]

I don't know what's with you Apple users. I've been sitting at this dual G5 trying to copy a 17 Meg file for... holy fuck was that fast!

Ok, I get it now.