RE: [Nolug] Mac OS X to make an appearance at the next meeting.... maybe.

Weird.....

The lack of bus bandwidth in apple mobos was one of the main reasons why
AVID moved to PC's. Another main reason was only 3 slow pci buses which was
not enough for high end I/O boards. Their latest ones seem to be getting
back to todays speeds.

And yes, CPU wise matching Ghz apple is faster. They always had lots of
L1-L3 cache memory, which contributes to speed and also to the higher price.
But it is like those OverDrive cpu's which make 486 cpu perform like
pentium, but nobody ever mention that CPU is only one part of the chain.
Slow mobo around fast CPU......

Petri

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nolug@joeykelly.net [mailto:owner-nolug@joeykelly.net]On
> Behalf Of Scott Harney
> Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2002 9:55 PM
> To: nolug@joeykelly.net
> Subject: Re: [Nolug] Mac OS X to make an appearance at the next
> meeting.... maybe.
>
>
> Yes. and there's also system bus, RAM, and I/O throughput to
> consider as well.
>
> I happen to think apple in general puts together nice, well-integrated
> machines. They make excellent workstations. Mike Raeder was just telling
> me today that at this weeks USENIX LISA conference, a huge number
> of folks
> were using ibooks and powerbooks.
>
> On Monday 04 November 2002 11:13, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> > At 08:48 AM 11/4/2002 -0600, you wrote:
> > >standard .omf files in and plays back video preview, while playing back
> > >multiple tracks of audio.
> > >
> > >Yes, motorola chips for mac's are now 1.25 Gh (equivalent to
> about 1.5 Gh
> > >intel and a bit lower AMD.) That is the top. Where as intel and AMD are
> > > but going over 3 Gh already. (or by the end of the year) And
> very soon to
> > > 4 Gh.
> >
> > Let us not forget that the clock rate of a CPU is not the only
> indicator of
> > how fast the chip can move. For example, I'm sure Scott and Hunter would
> > jump once you said that a SPARC is inferior to an Intel chip based on a
> > comparison of the clock rates. Or IBM's POWER series for that matter.
> >
> > Regards, Dustin
> >
> >
> > ---
> > Dustin Puryear <dustin@puryear-it.com>
> > Puryear Information Technology
> > Windows, UNIX, and IT Consulting
> > http://www.puryear-it.com
> >
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