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Subject: Re: impressive Power Mac G5 !

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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