Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:51:10 11/21/03
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On November 21, 2003 at 19:33:33, Andreas Guettinger wrote: >With the availability of the Dual 1.8 Ghz G5 systems, Apple updated _their_ >benchmark page: > >http://www.apple.com/powermac/performance/ > >They now also compare with a Dell Precision 650 Dual 3.2 Ghz Xeon and an >Alienware Aurora 2.2Ghz AMD Athlon 64 FX-51. Naturally (for an Apple site), both >of these systems get competely toasted by the G5. i.e. HMMER (biological >software using hidden markoff model matrices) outperforms the Athlon64 by 134%. > >Ouch :-) As is well known, if you are doing video processing, the Power Mac is a top-flite, somewhat overpriced machine. And darn good looking too. I would spend my money on A64 if I had a big pile of it to spend on such things.
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