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<blockquote data-quote="Amen-Moses" data-source="post: 172723" data-attributes="member: 114"><p>Actually I'd say it is far harder to judge the probable performance of a PC than a Mac because so much depends on the motherboard chipset, BIOS, RAM etc. With Macs all that is standardized (well at least for 6 months or so).</p><p></p><p>On top of that there are dozens of different CPUs to consider and just because a particular box shifter states nGhz CPU it doesn't mean that it will arrive configured that way (I've had to return a machine to Dell because when I set the BIOS to the advertized clock the machine became</p><p> unstable).</p><p></p><p>Then you have the biggest variable of all, the OS. XP-64 running on AMD-64 systems is really very smooth and snappy to use, XP-32 on the same machine is really slow in comparison. Linux comes in more variants now than any other OS and the performance depends a lot on which compile options were used for the kernal, especially on more modern CPUs.</p><p></p><p>Given all this it is almost impossible to compare like for like on just PCs let alone compare PCs with Macs. </p><p></p><p>Basically though the Mini outperforms any similar sized PC, the iMac G5 is comparable with the best medium range PCs and the Quad PM blows the socks off all but the very baddest workstation PCs (the HP Quad Opteron 2.4 being the baddest of the lot at the moment).</p><p></p><p>The only place where PCs have the edge at the moment is in the laptop arena but there is a dual core G4 available that could have solved that and a new company has just announced a dual core low power G5 so it is only Apples switch to Intel and the wait for the Centrino Duo (at least that's what it looks like it will be called this week) that has created that situation.</p><p></p><p>Amen-Moses</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Amen-Moses, post: 172723, member: 114"] Actually I'd say it is far harder to judge the probable performance of a PC than a Mac because so much depends on the motherboard chipset, BIOS, RAM etc. With Macs all that is standardized (well at least for 6 months or so). On top of that there are dozens of different CPUs to consider and just because a particular box shifter states nGhz CPU it doesn't mean that it will arrive configured that way (I've had to return a machine to Dell because when I set the BIOS to the advertized clock the machine became unstable). Then you have the biggest variable of all, the OS. XP-64 running on AMD-64 systems is really very smooth and snappy to use, XP-32 on the same machine is really slow in comparison. Linux comes in more variants now than any other OS and the performance depends a lot on which compile options were used for the kernal, especially on more modern CPUs. Given all this it is almost impossible to compare like for like on just PCs let alone compare PCs with Macs. Basically though the Mini outperforms any similar sized PC, the iMac G5 is comparable with the best medium range PCs and the Quad PM blows the socks off all but the very baddest workstation PCs (the HP Quad Opteron 2.4 being the baddest of the lot at the moment). The only place where PCs have the edge at the moment is in the laptop arena but there is a dual core G4 available that could have solved that and a new company has just announced a dual core low power G5 so it is only Apples switch to Intel and the wait for the Centrino Duo (at least that's what it looks like it will be called this week) that has created that situation. Amen-Moses [/QUOTE]
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