Originally posted by: RussianSensation
after looking on Apple's website at benchmarks of their dual 2.0ghz i began to question the validity of those benchmarks as a whole.
here is the website:
http://a1472.g.akamai.net/7/1472/51...om/powermac/pdf/PowerMacG5_Perf_WP_072903.pdf
For instance say for gaming they took demo 1.32 of Quake 3 and ran it on Radeon 9800Pro
saying P4 gets 275 fps in 1024x768 resolution
when recent comparison that includes Athlon 64 shows that P4 3.0 ghz with Radeon 9700Pro gets a suprising 399fps????
http://translate.google.com/transla...86-secret.com/popups/articleswindow.php?id=91
hmmm...
then i realized that it never mentions whether the p4 3.0ghz is the 3.06ghz 533mhz or 3.0 800mhz with HT?
then i read all comments on how Apple G5 is so good at mathematical calculations and DNA sequence matching highlighting its raw processing and computational power of the GPU...well then how come my p4 3.0ghz system does 1 result of Seti in 1h and 40 min with HT enabled or 3:20min for both or 3:26 min for 1 without HyperThreading enabled and my friend's just a week old 1.8 G5 takes from 4.5 - 5hours!!!
lets get on to another argument...FireWire800...since most devices either support firewire 1394 (400) or usb2.0 the transfer rate will be limited by the slowest component. since i dont know many digital cameras or devices tha tsupport firewire 800 its speed increase is irrelevant just like AGP 8x over AGP4x is a total marketing gimmick
moving on..it then compares parallel ATA hard drive to a serial ATA hard drive.. first of all serial ata hard drive gains ALMOST nothing if minute% increase if any over 133mb/s transfer rate of ATA-133 format. hard drives never attain the advertised 150mb/s of SATA anyways.....and nowhere in the article does it mention that one could set up Raid 0 on a PC or even 2 WD Raptors in Raid....besides......SATA has been available on the PC long time ago anyways...
next thing you know Apple's DDR-3200 Ram is 30% faster than DDR-3200 Ram on teh PC...In fact apple has only emulated and not innovated
Athlon 64 is truly the first 64-bit processor, Apple uses same power supplies, same ram, same graphics cards as teh PC does always proclaiming how its teh first one to have USB2.0, Firewire, etc. Yes those little features, which p4 already had years ago who cares about Firewire 800 or Airport Extreme those are minor innovations..but where did all this apple peformance go and features for almost 2-3x the cost of a p4?\
The fact that you cannot assemble an apple by yourself, that you have to pay for their operating system, and the fact that its impossible to upgrade the cpu or the motherboard, the fact that 99% of most popular games never make it to the pc, and that no one ever knows how to use an apple at any computer store suggesting just how easily navigatable their operating system is....NOT just makes me wonder just why do people keep buying them? The answer is people buy Apples to fit a specific niche such as video editing, photoshop, design, and so on...but for everyday use its overkill for complexity, price difference, and perfomance of every day applications like word processor, internet, etc. which are generally satisfied by any cpu anyways
so if you play games, arent loaded with money, and dont do media involved applications then you should never buy an apple
otherwise purchasing an apple could make sense and its good that everyone has a choice