Author: Daniel Clausen
Date: 00:11:47 09/19/03
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On September 18, 2003 at 22:39:34, Steven Edwards wrote: >The gang over at http://www.veritest.com was contracted by Apple to run the >SPEC >benchmarks on the new PowerMac dual 2.0 GHz PowerPC G5. For comparison >purposes, a Dell dual 3.06 GHz Xeon was also used in the testing. The Mac was >running Mac OS X 10.2.7 while the Dell ran Red Hat Linux 9.0. I believe the SPEC numbers once they officially submit them to the SPEC organization. The "testing" of veritest wasn't the most scientific one, but since there's still much room for improvement on the Mac software side (ie a compiler which really supports the G5 - I think IBM just released one lately for devs, but I'm not sure now) I'm pretty sure it's a very fine machine. Which top model (Mac or PC) is now 10% faster than the other one is not that important, given the fact that Mac were _by far_ slower so far compared to PCs. So at least a potential CCT-6 member who uses a new Mac shouldn't have to complain about speed. :) Personally I will wait for the 2nd revision of the board and until Apple releases Panther officially. Then I'll see whether I get one of these boxes or whether I will go for an dual Opteron or something. Sargon
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