Re: Pondering a mac mini.

[Clive Menzies <clive@clivemenzies.co.uk>]

On (21/01/05 18:23), Frank Van Damme wrote:
> On Thursday 20 January 2005 00:14, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > For ultimate number-crunching performance, PowerPC can't be beat,
> > since it's just as fast (or faster) than x86, and you can pack
> > more in tighter spaces than Xeon and AMD64.
> 
> I have once tried to find a cheap ibook secondhand and did some research on 
> performance of Macs back then, only to find results of benchmarks that 
> athlons et al outperform Macs of the same age by a factor of 2 to 3 af 
> numbercrunching.
> 
> P.S. one architecture which is unbeatable at it (but I thinked hp killed it) 
> is the Alpha.
Having been a Mac devotee for some years and hankering after a 15"
PowerBook, I've just taken delivery of an Acer 1524WLMi (AMD64).

I haven't yet got the 32bit chroot system installed (to run openoffice)
but the 64bit applications really fly <subjective>

So whilst I'm writing this on my trusty G4, I'm itching to get the Acer
laptop fully configured to my it my main workstation.  The G4 will then
become the master backup server.

Regards


Clive

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