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Originally posted by Charean:
Aw man, you called the new mac slow?
Right now it is faster than the fastest PC out there according to Apple when they had an independent company test the two fastest - a Dell and the new Mac G5. Since they had to equalize the tests - they didn't even put the entire amount of RAM in the Mac that it can use. They limited to 2 gigs. Here is the benchmarks from Veritest.
As for iMovie, I stand corrected. You are right, I was thinking of Final Cut Pro.
And I never suggested you buy a Mac for this, just use one from a friend. Sorry I offended.
(I used to be a Wintel user - you don't need to tell me I am ebil)
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Don't get me wrong, I think the Mac's are cool and like the idea of at least SOME competition for wintel... but Apples benchmarks are usually... um... crappy to be polite. It seems that with the new G5 Apple is hiding the performance defecit by comparing their 64 bit box to 32 bit Intel system, the dual AMD Opteron box benchmarked on the specbench site crushes the G5 in every benchmark I saw, and forget about the Quad Opteron. Price wise at $3000 the hot G5 isn't a bad deal at all... which is nice to see from Apple.
Even comparing to 32 bit boxes there's some PC's that beat up the new Apple pretty handily (from the Spec site)...
PowerEdge 2650 (Dual 3.06 GHz Xeon) vs Dual G5-2.0
specfp - 17 vs. 15.7
specint - 22 vs. 17.2
specINTbase - 1040 vs. 800
specFPbase - 1000 vs. 840