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Grand Master

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****ing compared to a dual 3.06 XEON!!!!!!

Jesus ****ing christ!!!!!!!!! There's your 3k right there!

yea but i dont need that kind of power for my home pc, so i wouldn't buy dual xeons in the first place. i have this need to cost ratio that i go by.

damn this is too pricey.. i couldn't (and wouldn't) even buy the PC equivalent. too over the top for me :(

ah man..

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Performance? SPEC tests and real-world applications will be looked at. Starting with SPEC tests. A 2 GHz G5, a 3 GHz Pentium 4 (800 MHz bus) and a 3.06 GHz Xeon. GCC 3.3, an open-source compiler, is being used. Apple hired VeriTest, an independent test house, to do the tests. Two tests: SPECint2000 and SPECfp2000. The P4 did 889 on integer, the Xeon did 836, and the G5 did 800. For floating point, 693 for the P4, 646 for the Xeon, and 840 for the G5. So the G5 is 10% slower on integer, 20% faster on floating point. "I think we can safely say that we've basically caught up with single processor system."

[ 11:34 ] Now, dual processor systems. A single P4 is being used, since you can't have a double P4. Dual Xeon and Dual G5. Integer is 10.3 for single P4, 16.7 for dual Xeon, and 17.2 for dual G5. Floating point: 8.1 for single P4, 11.1 for dual Xeon, and 15.7 for dual G5. Much applause. The G5 is three percent faster on integer and 41 percent faster on floating point.

[ 11:36 ] That's SPEC tests. How about real-world apps? Well, time for a "dual duel" with a dual Xeon and dual G5. To start off with ? you guessed it, Adobe. Greg Gilley, VP Engineering of Adobe, is introduced. A performance update for Photoshop will be released around the time the G5 towers ship.

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"I've been dying to do this for so long," Schiller says. There's a dual G5 up against a Dell dual 3.06 GHz Xeon. Lame-ass Dell desktop background on the Dell PC, running Windows XP. The poster art for Finding Nemo will be used in Photoshop.

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This is bad. The low end G4 PowerMac that was on their website this morning was 1499.99 and they say this chip and such is cheaper but the price went up 500 bucks. The computer this morning had about the same specs and most parts are the same price if not cheaper so how the hell would a cheaper IBM chip put this computer that much more. I'm not trying to start a flame but Apple is becoming more like Microsoft everyday. Where are we now.

1. New PowerMacs are more expensive that the last.

2. When you bought Mac OS X you had to pay 130.00 for Jaguar.

3. Now we have to pay another 130.00 for Panther.

How is this any differnt. Please don't take this as a flame but lets be realistic here for one moment. I haven't seen PCs or Macs for that matter come out with a newer and better system for more money. It's almost always been less and at the worst the same.

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