Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 00:39:24 07/25/03
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On July 25, 2003 at 02:05:59, Joost Buijs wrote: >On July 24, 2003 at 17:27:55, Vincent Lejeune wrote: > >> >>http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/wwdc03/ -> click "watch now" -> go to >>1:40:30; You will see Power Mac G5 perform a little more than 2 times faster >>than a dual Xeon 3.06 !!! Live run, screens side by side, with 4 or 5 different >>applications. > >Take a look here! >http://www.haxial.com/spls-soapbox/apple-powermac-G5/ A nice piece, although my real problem with Apple is that such demonstrations are ingeniously presented to appear relevant to far more people than is actually the case. Such computationally intensive calculations, as shown in the video, are rare; I would suggest that such demonstrations are only relevant to the usage of a small fraction of computer users. Otherwise SETI@home would never have appeared and offices would be crammed with Macs :) Alastair
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