Fastest PC Vs. Fastest Mac Comparison

[Jerry Jones]

Comparison:

Single 3.06ghz Intel (PC) vs. G4 Dual 1.25ghz Motorola (Mac)

http://www.digitalproducer.com/2002/11_nov/reviews/11_11/cw_macvspciii.htm

"Mac users will be disappointed to see that this new Dell machine,
while priced $629 less than the Mac Dual G4 1.25 GHz machine, was
nearly twice as fast on most of the nine benchmarks we ran."

Jerry Jones

http://www.jonesgroup.net

[Hulk]

Owww!

[Elie]

There are two components hindering Mac's right now...

1-The primatve and now obsolete Motorolla CPU
2-Slow memory

When Mac's start using Intel processors (reported rumour), the gap will be definetely shrink between PC's and Mac's.


Regards,
Elie

[wkulecz]

Unless added by a recent service pak XP home does not support mutiple processors. I think he meant to say XP Pro or Windows 2000.

I'm not intrested in it if it requires XP.

Too bad they didn't do mpeg2 encoding benchmarks as thats the only thing I do that will motivate me to go thru the hassle of another upgrade right now.

--wally.


--wally.

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[Elie]

I've known about this camera for a while now, and yes it's sweet

I am selling my XL-1 to buy this camera.

Cheers,
Elie

[Slougi]

Originally posted by wkulecz
Unless added by a recent service pak XP home does not support mutiple processors. I think he meant to say XP Pro or Windows 2000.

I'm not intrested in it if it requires XP.

Too bad they didn't do mpeg2 encoding benchmarks as thats the only thing I do that will motivate me to go thru the hassle of another upgrade right now.

--wally.


--wally.

XP home does support hyperthreading.

[wkulecz]

"XP home does support hyperthreading.
________________
-Slougi "

Reference please.

XP home does not support multiprocessing (SMP) so how does it support HT?

Its possible its added by a service pak, but I don't recall seeing this mentioned, not that MS doesn't continue to sneak things in :-(

--wally.

[Hulk]

XP Home does support Hyperthreading.


From the anandtech.com review of the P4 3.06Ghz:

Operating System support for Hyper-Threading is necessary but it currently exists in two different forms. Windows 2000 Professional supports multiple processors but it does not properly support Hyper-Threading. This means that it will see a single HT enabled Pentium 4 as two CPUs, but the OS will think that it is running on two physical CPUs instead of one physical CPU split into two logical CPUs. Why is this a problem?

With a single Pentium 4 processor this isn't much of an issue, but things get much more complicated with multiprocessor Xeons with HT enabled under Windows 2000 Professional or Server. Windows 2000 Professional only supports a maximum of two processors, and 2000 Server supports a max of 4 processors. With two HT enabled CPUs under Windows 2000 Professional, enabling HT will not make a difference as the OS will only work with a maximum of two CPUs. Similarly, a quad HT system under Windows 2000 Server would appear to the OS as an 8 processor system and thus exceed its licensing limitations giving you the use of only 4 of the CPUs.

Luckily Windows XP was designed with Hyper-Threading support in mind and thus even Home Edition will support a single CPU with HT enabled. Keep in mind that Windows XP Home does not support multiple physical processors, but if you enable HT on a Pentium 4 XP Home will recognize it as two CPUs.

The same situation exists with Windows XP Professional where the OS supports a maximum of two physical processors but it will allow a configuration with 4 logical processors.

[wkulecz]

Ok thanks for clearing this up, not that I care about XP.

--wally.

[Hulk]

I wish I could get my hands on a 3.06 P4 so I could run the MS Pro benchmark. There's just no way I'm paying $600 for it! Especially after spending nearly $500 on DVD Workshop and Sound Forge 6.0 last week. My wife is forgiving, but not that forgiving.