Developer Intel Macs outperform G5 macs

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The systems started shipping to Mac OS X developers three weeks ago, each equipped with a 3.6 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor with 2 MB L2 Cache, 800MHz front-side bus, 1GB of 533MHz DDR2 Dual Channel SDRAM, and an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900.

"It's fast," said one developer source of Mac OS X running on Intel's Pentium processors. "Faster than [Mac OS X] on my Dual 2GHz Power Mac G5." In addition to booting Windows XP at blazing speeds, the included version of Mac OS X for Intel takes "as little as 10 seconds" to boot to the Desktop from when the Apple logo first displays on screen.

Included with the Mac OS X for Intel distribution is an Applications folder stocked with a mixture of PowerPC and Intel-native applications. Applications that are compiled only for PowerPC processors are of filetype "Application (PowerPC)" whereas Intel-native binaries are labeled of standard type "Application".

Developers sources say the early version of Rosetta, a dynamic binary translator that is designed to run unaltered PowerPC applications on Intel Macs, is also impressive. "Rosetta is completely 100 percent seamless and nothing like the Classic environment used to run older Mac OS 8 and 9 applications under Mac OS X," one source told AppleInsider.



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Meh, they're going to be pure garbage now... Fucking Intel Macs, thats the most retarded thing I've heard of all year.
 
name='FragTek' said:
Meh, they're going to be pure garbage now... Fucking Intel Macs, thats the most retarded thing I've heard of all year.
yea i no, bet none of these 'tests'required the altivec unit .. the old macs strongest point .. god i wish i had the money to buy apple just to stop them doing this :(
 
well i dunno what to say, intel made mack's more powerfull, but intel are known for overheating, and apple are known for reliability....
 
Intel's don't overheat if you cool them properly :rolleyes:

Plus Prescott's are the only 'hot' chips. It's not the whole of Intel!
 
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