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I hate to piss on your Fruit Loops by Senor Barborito 06/24/2003, 3:16pm PDT
Moab wrote:

Apple finally nails it.

Though Widows on Intel/AMD will still always be the only real choice for gaming, that is so my next box right there.

(Note: this is not a faggot slashdot "Apple vs Winblows" cocksuckery bait. If you don't get why you want one of those, fine, I don't care.)


But Slashdot posted a decent enough debunking of the benchmarks here. The jist is that many of the more important processor features (SSE2, SIMD, hyperthreading, etc.) for the P4s and Xeons were disabled. In the end what matters is applications - as one poster pointed out, all cross-platform benchmarking is subjective (see ATI and nVidia trying to cheat better than the other on Futuremark's tests).

Really, though, it's one giant leap forward for Apple, and having IBM behind them is a big step - I'm starting to like Big Blue these days with the Linux support (both in and out of court) and also keeping non-Wintel solutions alive (important for subverting Palladium).

I wouldn't mind having one myself, but I'm a gamer. If I wasn't, I'd be using Linux on the x86 right now.

--SB
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Interesting geek shit by Moab 06/24/2003, 2:12am PDT NEW
    I hate to piss on your Fruit Loops by Senor Barborito 06/24/2003, 3:16pm PDT NEW
        Shocked and appalled. by FoK 06/24/2003, 3:46pm PDT NEW
            Re: Shocked and appalled. by Ice Cream Jonsey 06/24/2003, 4:13pm PDT NEW
                Re: Shocked and appalled. by FoK 06/24/2003, 5:12pm PDT NEW
                    Re: Shocked and appalled. by Moab 06/25/2003, 1:02am PDT NEW
                        You forgot cracked software. Hard to get, for Macs. NT by FoK 06/25/2003, 1:15am PDT NEW
                            Nah, email me. NT by Moab 06/25/2003, 10:49am PDT NEW
                Re: Shocked and appalled. by Mood: Perplexed 06/25/2003, 4:00am PDT NEW
                    Fallout 1 worked fine for me on a late edition ibook by Lizard_King 06/25/2003, 10:16am PDT NEW
        Apple's VP with a nice comeback by Senor Barborito 06/24/2003, 7:46pm PDT NEW
 
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