Carmak ended up releasing a SMP version of Quake 3 for Macs. The performance boost was considerable. This was to help make up for the god awfully slow CPUs Motorola was sticking Apple with.
No I'm not. Look at the Windows zealot's post that started the crap.
My initial post was discouraging him from investing in a RAID sys - when just 2 drives is all you need. Some OTHER guy said just buy a Mac, then the WINDOWS Zealot made some very inaccurate claims. I want to help out the...
Numbers don't lie. Its not hard to find on the net. Anything bandwidth stressful (Like PS) P4s suck hind-tit compared to Dual Opterons and Dual G5s. Its an architecture thing. Just like there aren't very many rendering farms that use Xeons - they're mostly Opterons or G5s.
Laugh all you...
To bad YOU can't back up a bit of that crap. I, however like to use facts :
Like These!
Or see below for the best scores: Best overall 2.5GHz G5 (score 714) best P4 Score: 497!
Bottom line... P4s SUCK at Photoshop.
If you truly want the best that money can buy for Photoshop...
I'm positive Apple knows this. There was a quote from one of their VPs that there is a retail "sweet-spot" of $1000 for a commodity desktop, but they have yet to offer anything but crap at that point or less. Apple is NOT interested in making systems for Joe-sixpack - you'll never see Macs in a...
You have NO IDEA what you are typing into your computer. OMG. Please. This information is NOT hard to find.
"G5 processor has its own dedicated bidirectional interface to the system controller. That?s a mind-boggling 20GB per second of total bandwidth on dual 2.5GHz systems"...
I think its stupid for you to suggest that anyone buy ANY computer for upgradability. I buy a computer to use. If you're buying computers and immediately having to think about upgradability then you're buying the wrong computers.
Any pro machine, towers, can be upgraded with anything on that...
Right.
The OEM raptor drive I bought from NewEgg magically got more expensive when I ordered it. they must have something built into the site that can tell I'm a Mac user and then jacked up the price. Paid $180 for it. Hey... that's what its listing for now... you must be WRONG. Imagine that...
Yep.
You can't make a blanket statement like that and expect it to hold any water. Through looking a various bench tests I've come to the conclusion the Dual Opterons and Dual G5s are roughly clock for clock the same performance wise in real world test. EX: video editing, Photoshop, 3D...
Get at least 2 drives: one to boot from and one as a scratch disk. The scratch can be partition of a large drive, but separate from boot drive, about 8-12 GB is plenty. This way you don't have to worry about defragging it. RAID is a bit overkill for a PS system. That would be more for Video...
Mac users can upgrade:
Video Cards
Hard Drives
Optical Drives
RAM
Processors
cabling
etc...
What else is there?
Whatever man... stick to the facts instead of misinformation, mkay?
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