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Apples New G4s A Disappointment
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Posted by: TotalRecall
The Register has news on some benchmarks on Apple's upcoming Dual G4 machine, and they don't look so well. The following tests were run on the Mac OS X through SPEC CPU2000:
In the integer tests, which give a better indication of performance for the kind of general-purpose desktop computing most of use every day, the G4 held its own against the ancient Pentium running at 1Ghz.
But when C't ran the floating point benchmarks it found that performance was particularly wanting. The elegant PowerPC was designed with floating point as a key consideration, and with these kind of tests, it should be on home turf.
The G4 scored between 147 and 187 on the floating point tests, while the Pentium III scored 297. Today's Pentium 4's double that figure, and as a result, today's PCs are four times as fast as Apple's professional line in some situations.
For Apply, the good news is that the SPEC benchmark automatically disables the second processor, so there may be still a push for the system. Read more here.
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