Author: Peter Stayne
Date: 16:58:24 06/23/03
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Agreed. I'm very interested in getting one though, especially in light of their impressive 3d rendering abilities (another hobby of mine). The spec stuff they posted was off the mark by a lot. I streamed the keynote at work today and Jobs threw up some graphs showing the 970 to be slightly slower in int but far faster in fp than the p4's and Xeons. While searching on the net, i found evidence to the contrary (just one of the links: http://macbuyersguide.com/editorials/editorial-ppc970.htm ) showing that the p4's beat the 970 in both categories, and mind you, the 3.2GHz P4 was just announced, plus Job's keynote completely snubbed the Opteron which, by its very existence, strikes down most of the marketing fluff Jobs was spewing. But, alas, in judging objectively, it's important not just to be skeptical, but to admit that there are things this machine will do very well. The G5 has MASSIVE memory thoroughput, but I glean any idea as to what kind of latency it would have. Pete On June 23, 2003 at 17:38:50, Dan Andersson wrote: > The Mac is a lot closer than it has been for a long time. But there is the >ususl fudging. They claim it is the first 64 bit desktop machine:) A little late >for that. A couple of years late. The machine won't be available until Q3. They >do some deceptive stuff with SPEC benchmarking numbers. > While it is certainla a neat machine that I would like to have. And it is retty >powerful in itself. I get seriously turned off by their marketing. > >MvH Dan Andersson
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