AllanB

Any of you Mac guys out there should check out the apple site to see the monstrous new PowerMacs. Massive perfomance ven from the entry level machine which outperforms a P4 2.5Ghz by 45%. Hope to have UK pricing tomorrow afternoon .



AllanB

GaryK

hmm that old chestnut, I think you'll find it depends on what is actually being done, they may look nice but hey its still a niche market.

Gary

suba

tomorrow?

Mr Footlong

iTrader: (7)

Hehe, my p4 will be pushing past 3.2ghz at the weekend, so not so much faster

Pointless post, but hey, i'm drunk. Yay me!

Cheers,

Nick

AllanB

Yep tomorrow. Register are just guessing. No official UK announcements yet.

Gary, are you Sharon Smiths other half by any chance ?


AllanB

ChrisB

Just reading around the web, the new Mac's are dual CPU?

So comparing against a single CPU P4 isn't really a level playing field. Have to compare to Dual Xeons with HT and SMP XPs as well IMO.

AllanB

Didn't think you could get a dual Xenon for less than £1300.

Certianly on the Sevrer side of things you can't stick dual Xenons in a 1U rackmounter server due to heat issues.

Its just interesting where Apple are going and it looks like its now make or break from them. It not the hardware as there is little doubt its more reliable and has a better architecture but the OS strategy is alienating its customers. OSX whilst is probably the best OS out there has few killer apps to make people really want to move over right now but no Quark which is the big market.


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DominicA

Er, guess why apple are still using the same CPU but doubling them up??? because they haven't got a fecking clue where they are going next!!! what are they anyway, dual 1.1Ghz..... don't make me laugh!! ooooo they have got DDR now tho.... just shows you how ****e the last ones really were.... OSX ..... say no more..

GaryK

Allan,

yes I am! She said you were on here, when I saw you pushing the macs then I knew!!!

SO the new macs are 90% faster, are they 90% dearer as well?

Gary

ChrisB

Hmm..

Crappy picture cos it's a webcam jobbie but..



In 4U I have 16 Ghz of processing power (Dual Xeon 2Ghz in each), 12 disks, 8 Network adapters and a potential of 48GB RAM.

Photo courtesy of Mr Titan himself

Markus

Have seen the new G4's and they are rather nice, methinks the office will be aquiring one soon.

I am sooooooooooo not going to get into the apple vs PC debate. I don't have much choice as we're a mac software devleoper, but I do have a PC at home.

If you want to play games get a pc, macs are just not too good at that. To be honest, if I need to run a PC app at work I fire up Virtual PC, works groovy for me.

GaryK

Markus,

what dev. IDE do you use on Mac, codewarrior? Dont know of any others, would love to do some work on one (if only Borland ported Delphi!)

Gary

AllanB

Agree with markus that most games are a waste of time on a Mac as few decent ones get ported over.

ChrisB thanks for the info on the dual Xeon servers, I stand corrected and I think Apple also do now , or will. What manufacturer are they from ?



AllanB

ChrisB

All SuperMicro kit (very good stuff)

http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/SU...ver6012P-6.htm I think is the one.

DominicA

Strange how most of the speed test comparisons are done using photoshop..... possibly coded with the mac in mind???

boomer

Chris,

is that a pile of empty pizza boxes on the top left of the photo?

mb