Dual 2.5Ghz G5

[hopejr]

Originally posted by: The Godfather

Originally posted by: aeternitas

Originally posted by: The Godfather
GUES WHAT?????? HES NOT TALKING TO ME AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA.... actually he wasnt ever since i told him he's wrong...THESE AMERICANS HAVE TO GROW UP ahahahhahahaha he cant take a little argument... such a KID

I like this. Its like fighting fire with fire, except in this case, fighting a dumbass with stupidly ignorant statement. You and everyone with your hair color need to grow up. Eh? wtf?

I edited it.. sorry. I meant to say.. THESE PEOPLE AT SCHOOL HAVE TO GROW UP...most of them (with exceptions ) are mindless and act like they know everything. They call ME immature while they have seen nothing of life yet. Their common sense can be compared to a fly's. And they believe every single statement before they look it up it has become a fact. Sorry i didnt mean the one before.

NO BAD FEELINGS TOWARD AMERICANS... I LOVE AMERICA!! I MEANT TO SAY PEOPLE AT SCHOOL

lol!! Sometimes I get irritated with Americans too, but I've learnt not to flame them

 

[Dennis Travis]

Originally posted by: halfadder

Originally posted by: Dennis Travis
I agree, when the 128 came out it was ahead of everything out there. I still have an old 512 Mac and an SE. The SE will get on the net and check Email with Eudora, FTP, Chat with an older AIM. The only thing it can not do due to the 4Megs RAM is run a Graphical Web Browser, just not enough ram. The first macs were WAY ahead of their time.

MacWeb will run fine on 4 MB but it's only HTML 2.0 compliant.

It this a more recent release of MacWeb? Back when I first tried it years ago now I could not get it to work without running out of RAM. I had to use a Text Based browser which really was not fun but it worked! I am just impressed a Plus or SE would even do what mine did on the internet and it all worked so well, just a bit slow but for an 8Mhz CPU it was not that bad. Might try a more recent MacWeb for the fun it it to see if I can get it to work.

 

[Sunner]

This thread rules!

 

[imported_Lucifer]

I wish I had a G5.

 

[Dennis Travis]

Originally posted by: Thin Lizzy
I wish I had a G5.

Same here. A Mini will have to do for now till I get more $$$ someday!

 

[DaFinn]

Originally posted by: Thin Lizzy
I wish I had a G5.

I wish I had 5G...

 

[thirdlegstump]

Originally posted by: Goi

Originally posted by: deathkoba
I don't think so. Got any unbiased links, proof that the Opteron can outperform a G5?

The A64 FX-55 is currently the fastest integer processor according to published SPECCPU2000 results. If you disregard the Itanium2, they are also the fastest FP processors around. Opterons are built upon the same core, so if clocked similarly, they will perform about the same if not better.

The G5's aren't even listed on Spec, and Apple's previous benchmark cheating incident doesn't reflect well on them.

SpecCPU2000 is PeeCee oriented and thus cannot be used as a fair comparison between the obviously more powerful G5's and other PeeCee processors.

http://www.apple.com/powermac/performance/

Read it and weep PeeCee fanboy!

 

[wakawaka]

Originally posted by: deathkoba
Read it and weep PeeCee fanboy!

:laugh:

 

[Goi]

Dude, Spec benchmarks are just about the only cross platform benchmarks that are out there. You're pointing me to benchmarking results from apple.com? Guess what's gonna be G5 oriented?

 

[imported_Lucifer]

Originally posted by: Dennis Travis

Originally posted by: Thin Lizzy
I wish I had a G5.

Same here. A Mini will have to do for now till I get more $$$ someday!

My emac and G4 will have to do for now. But now, a new line Powerbooks came out, and I want the 15'' model. I cant decide between the G5 and the Powerbook!

 

[halfadder]

It's also very easy to "cheat" with the SPECmarks by adjusting your compiler settings and operating system parameters. People have been doing this for the past 15 years. Sun, HP, and IBM became very good at pumping up their SPEC92 numbers for selling their Unix workstations.

The good thing about SPEC is that it's actually a composite of several tests. You can compare the results of each subtest to see the strenghts and weaknesses of each machine. Each subtest has a very well documented algorithm it's testing. But to just compare the final composite score is meaningless. A good final SPEC score could mean that you have a blanaced system, or it could mean that you're AWESOME in one test while you totally suck at another.

Also, tuning your system for SPEC does not have the same results as tuning your system for GUI responsiveness, for example.

Then there's the case of the algoritms themselves. Anyone remember the ByteMark? It was created by Byte magazine and was great for comparing computers and workstations in the early 1990s. But when the PowerPC 750 "G3" came out, it had a certain instruction that was quite powerful... and that certain instruction was also one heavily used in the ByteMark. As a result, the G3 benchmarked as being over 2x faster than the Pentium2 in the ByteMark! When in reality they were much closer in performance.

Lies, damned lies, and benchmarks.

 

[Chinoman]

Tell him which he prefers, and Intel or AMD for gaming. If he says Intel, shoot him over and over again in the head till he bleeds through his ass where his brain is.

 

[ribbon13]

I've heard of some blithering dumb asses in my time, but Jesus.

Does that mean my quad opteron 850 is a 9.6GHZ 256-bit computer? Nice. lol

Now, ask him what a "winchester" is. I still have one in my prototype 8086 with 8087, w/ CGA adapter and princeton graphics monitor. Circa 1982.

If he says anything other than a 10MB 5.25" hard drive by Seagate from 1980-81 punch him in the mouth and tell him it was from me. I've worked in computing for years, and hearing about know-nothing kids giving people misinformation, just really pisses me off.

What's next? A dual-core opteron 250 actually runs at 4.8ghz sinces it's a single die?

 

[Dennis Travis]

Man I feel old! I actually remember teh Winchester Drives. I might still have one in my old IBM 5151.

 

[ribbon13]

My winchester still works, and I use it to play Jump Man and Lode Runner.