creativemac.com— This well-written review explains how the processor in the MacBook, a consumer laptop, is as robust as the processor in G5 desktop Macs -- and sometimes exceeds G5 performance on certain tasks.
Jul 23, 2006View in Crawl 4
I agree. I sent an e-mail to the webmaster informing him that I wouldn't visit the site again. They make websites look cheap and unprofessional. I know he probably doesn't care that I won't be coming back, and is probably laughing at my note, but if more people did write, maybe we could eliminate these annoyances, without an extension to our browsers.
@starmanjones:"was that just stupid or do you think they might know something."the truth is that they DO know something, the PPC's cacheing and pipelining system makes is a very good arch for specific tasks, like video editing as someone mentioned, funnily enough, well written games get good benefits from these features too.I know its useless to bicker about what could have been, but PPC as an arch is far superior to x86, it of course hasnt enjoyed the healthy competition that x86 has :)
........Geez, don't let certain G5 owners read this... many are still very delusional about the performance of their hardware. And don't get me started on the Mac zealots who thought the move to Intel was a bad thing. Maybe the reason they think the G5 is so much faster is because Steve Jobs has been lying through his teeth for years about how much faster PowerPc is to x86?
most apple users won't miss the benefits of the G5 cpu once it's no longer available for purchase.different cpu architectures won't disappear. they just won't be provided by apple and their generic, albeit shiny, x86 pc's.
I can't find a single thing that my MacBook can do faster than my Pentium 1.73M Vaio laptop so the G5 must have been a pretty sluggish rig. It is much quieter and more portable though and I haven't experiened any mooing or odd noises either. It's main problem though, apart from a lack of speed, is the operating temperature. It's much, much hotter than the Vaio and impossible to keep on your lap for more than 2-3 minutes after starting up. I personally would sacrifice some more fan noise for a bit more speed and a cooler base.
This topic is not about the Intel PM versus the PM G5! It's about the MacBook and the PM G5!I'm certain the Intel PM will be a machine that will be very expensive , close to the purchase of a PM G5! And they will run faster then the current PM G5 (latest models , like the quads).Maybe i can't carry my G5 around , but at the other hand , i have more slots to put extra cards in and i can put 8 Gigs of RAM in it.My PM G5 is water cooled so it's a very quiet machine ;-) And he is not standing in my bedroom :-) I use my iBook G4 with a Radeon 9200 Mobile for portable use , without burning my legs. BTW , did you know that the Radeon 9200 outperformed the Intel GPU in the new MacBook?The heavy horsepower tasks are for my PM , like gaming and others.
@TheReport"Id also like to see it record up to one hours worth of garageband audio without a stutter."I've done this several times in Logic, with several plug-ins running on several channels and I'm still not making the CPU sweat (I do have 2GB of RAM though).
haly2k1Jul 23, 2006
Good artilce, corrects some misinformation that's been floating around.Hal
butchlinkJul 24, 2006
I agree. I sent an e-mail to the webmaster informing him that I wouldn't visit the site again. They make websites look cheap and unprofessional. I know he probably doesn't care that I won't be coming back, and is probably laughing at my note, but if more people did write, maybe we could eliminate these annoyances, without an extension to our browsers.
Closed AccountJul 24, 2006
Moral of story: Intel>PowerPC
triplahJul 24, 2006
@starmanjones:"was that just stupid or do you think they might know something."the truth is that they DO know something, the PPC's cacheing and pipelining system makes is a very good arch for specific tasks, like video editing as someone mentioned, funnily enough, well written games get good benefits from these features too.I know its useless to bicker about what could have been, but PPC as an arch is far superior to x86, it of course hasnt enjoyed the healthy competition that x86 has :)
grayoneJul 24, 2006
........Geez, don't let certain G5 owners read this... many are still very delusional about the performance of their hardware. And don't get me started on the Mac zealots who thought the move to Intel was a bad thing. Maybe the reason they think the G5 is so much faster is because Steve Jobs has been lying through his teeth for years about how much faster PowerPc is to x86?
miesesJul 24, 2006
most apple users won't miss the benefits of the G5 cpu once it's no longer available for purchase.different cpu architectures won't disappear. they just won't be provided by apple and their generic, albeit shiny, x86 pc's.
hiroJul 24, 2006
I can't find a single thing that my MacBook can do faster than my Pentium 1.73M Vaio laptop so the G5 must have been a pretty sluggish rig. It is much quieter and more portable though and I haven't experiened any mooing or odd noises either. It's main problem though, apart from a lack of speed, is the operating temperature. It's much, much hotter than the Vaio and impossible to keep on your lap for more than 2-3 minutes after starting up. I personally would sacrifice some more fan noise for a bit more speed and a cooler base.
doktermacJul 24, 2006
This topic is not about the Intel PM versus the PM G5! It's about the MacBook and the PM G5!I'm certain the Intel PM will be a machine that will be very expensive , close to the purchase of a PM G5! And they will run faster then the current PM G5 (latest models , like the quads).Maybe i can't carry my G5 around , but at the other hand , i have more slots to put extra cards in and i can put 8 Gigs of RAM in it.My PM G5 is water cooled so it's a very quiet machine ;-) And he is not standing in my bedroom :-) I use my iBook G4 with a Radeon 9200 Mobile for portable use , without burning my legs. BTW , did you know that the Radeon 9200 outperformed the Intel GPU in the new MacBook?The heavy horsepower tasks are for my PM , like gaming and others.
Closed AccountJul 24, 2006
@TheReport"Id also like to see it record up to one hours worth of garageband audio without a stutter."I've done this several times in Logic, with several plug-ins running on several channels and I'm still not making the CPU sweat (I do have 2GB of RAM though).