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   From: randyhoward@FOOverizonBAR.net   
      
   In article , nospam@nospam.com   
   says...   
   >   
   > "prodigal1"  wrote in message   
   > news:bJqdnfEKjqBecvPfRVn-gg@rogers.com...   
   > > Houston had a problem when he wrote:   
   > >> On the other hand, if you go with OS X, you are locked into expensive and   
   > >> slightly underpowered Apple hardware.   
   > >   
   > > G5 underpowered?  what the hell have you been smoking?   
   > > (coz I want some)   
   >   
   > Compared to the current crop of x86 machines, Macs DO appear to be   
   > underpowered, overall.   
      
   Sure.  Want to make it official?  Compare a dual-Opteron with Hyper-   
   transport RAM to a dual G5 and run a memory throughput test.  Ouch.   
   It'll be ugly.  Wait much longer, even the dual-core desktops will   
   be chomping at the bit.   
      
   Graphics performance?  Try out SLI versus Mac.   
      
   > This may change with Tiger, and/or better compilers and/or new CPUs, but   
   > that's the concensus right now.   
      
   If they forked OS X and had a version to take specific advantage of   
   the G5, it would probably also help, but they probably don't have   
   the horsepower or incentive to keep two or more versions afloat at   
   the same time.   
      
   I'm guessing (??) that Apple does not have a way that you can rebuild   
   the OS X kernel to take specific advantage of the G5 instruction set,   
   ala Linux?  That might be a way to shorten up the differences until   
   IBM gets the PowerPC up to where it is supposed to be.   
      
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   Randy Howard (2reply remove FOOBAR)   
   "Making it hard to do stupid things often makes it hard   
    to do smart ones too." -- Andrew Koenig   
      
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