Mac G5!!!

kj · 24th June 2003, 12:05 AM

woah! fastest PCs on the planet! check it out....
CNN article
Apple Official Site

see, numbers dont mean a thing when it comes to smart architecture.

check out the cooling system...

4 areas cooled by 4 individual low rpm fans.

and PC left, Mac on the right....

stunning. as for the processor... 'Imagine fitting over 58 million light switches into the space the size of your thumbnail to comprehend the feat accomplished by IBM scientists and fabrication wizards. '

pixelsink · 24th June 2003, 04:14 PM

looks like the new G5 is gonna be sooper dooper.

Already have my hardware request form filled out here at work

Col

cunny · 25th June 2003, 07:43 PM

pity they rigged the figures though. i know everybody does, but making the opposition seem shit and yours uses all the optimisation seems a step to far. still at last they have nice shiny boxes... droooooooool. but then some of alienwares nooo boxes are rather funky too.

Everyone should just use a drawer and some selotape. it works quite well and you dont have to have a hideous big box at all!!

kj · 25th June 2003, 09:22 PM

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Originally posted by ColReVolt
looks like the new G5 is gonna be sooper dooper.

Already have my hardware request form filled out here at work

Col

hey man, what do you work as? the peeps at work have all got Dual G4s, and i get a pissy Dell. lol.

pixelsink · 26th June 2003, 07:08 AM

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hey man, what do you work as? the peeps at work have all got Dual G4s, and i get a pissy Dell. lol.

I'm a multimedia designer. I use a G4 and a PC at work. Spend most of my time on the Mac though.

cunny · 6th August 2003, 06:51 PM

Ive also got a dell, but its far from pissy. its a dual p4 2.8ghz. which by my reckonning is probably as fast as the g5s. it aint even new. the guy next to me has quad p4 3~ghz with nvidea quatro cards. they rock!!!

kj · 6th August 2003, 07:29 PM

you show off. But his computer isnt a commercially available one is it? its been modified. The mac g5 is what it is straight out of the box.

Smitty · 15th August 2003, 10:51 AM

Ach g5 , BLEH!!!!! Dual Amd Opteron Here We Come!!

cunny · 3rd September 2003, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by kj

you show off. But his computer isnt a commercially available one is it? its been modified. The mac g5 is what it is straight out of the box.

Actually it is commericially available, you can buy them from the dell website. Its called a precision workstation and it is well worth the cash. They work out cheaper too. IBM do em too, so do a lotta companies.

so there!!

Misanthropy · 3rd September 2003, 09:55 AM

I saw the G5 advert, they're pretty. think I'll stick with my pathetic amd 2200+ for a bit though.

C.I. State · 4th September 2003, 03:02 PM

Can you download loads of dodgy software off Kazaa for Macs?

paul engage · 2nd October 2003, 09:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cunny

Ive also got a dell, but its far from pissy. its a dual p4 2.8ghz. which by my reckonning is probably as fast as the g5s. it aint even new. the guy next to me has quad p4 3~ghz with nvidea quatro cards. they rock!!!

fp results are pretty good on the G5; although int not quite so.
But if you write properly optimised altivec code for the g5, the p4 is left in the dust.
Those G5s are pretty cool machines...

pixelsink · 17th October 2003, 01:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by paul engage

fp results are pretty good on the G5; although int not quite so.
But if you write properly optimised altivec code for the g5, the p4 is left in the dust.
Those G5s are pretty cool machines...

humndislocation · 17th October 2003, 05:13 PM

Do you reckon a G5 would be faster than a dual P4s with hyper threading in a heavily multithreaded/multitasking environment? What about applications optimised heavily for MMX/SSE/SSE2 operations?

I know RISC architecture is better than the PCs CISC architecture, but that doesn't mean that a RISC chip is faster than every CISC chip in existence. For example, I've often heard people try to say that the PS2 hardware is better than the XBox because it's RISC, but they ignore the fact that the Xbox is still much faster then the PS2 because it has a much much faster CPU regardless of the fact that it is CISC.

paul engage · 17th October 2003, 08:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by humndislocation

Do you reckon a G5 would be faster than a dual P4s with hyper threading in a heavily multithreaded/multitasking environment? What about applications optimised heavily for MMX/SSE/SSE2 operations?

I know RISC architecture is better than the PCs CISC architecture, but that doesn't mean that a RISC chip is faster than every CISC chip in existence. For example, I've often heard people try to say that the PS2 hardware is better than the XBox because it's RISC, but they ignore the fact that the Xbox is still mu

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pixelsink Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: www.carbonhideout.com Posts: 4,722 Band: Carbon	...drool.... looks like the new G5 is gonna be sooper dooper. Already have my hardware request form filled out here at work Col

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kj gimp Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Scotland Posts: 14,145 Band: A band of merry men	you show off. But his computer isnt a commercially available one is it? its been modified. The mac g5 is what it is straight out of the box. __________________ This community cannot survive without your continued support. galleries \|\| links directory \|\| profiles \|\| wiki

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cunny Registered User Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high Posts: 194	pity they rigged the figures though. i know everybody does, but making the opposition seem shit and yours uses all the optimisation seems a step to far. still at last they have nice shiny boxes... droooooooool. but then some of alienwares nooo boxes are rather funky too. Everyone should just use a drawer and some selotape. it works quite well and you dont have to have a hideous big box at all!!

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cunny Registered User Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Somewhere over the rainbow, way up high Posts: 194	Ive also got a dell, but its far from pissy. its a dual p4 2.8ghz. which by my reckonning is probably as fast as the g5s. it aint even new. the guy next to me has quad p4 3~ghz with nvidea quatro cards. they rock!!!

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Smitty Registered User Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Tullibody Posts: 31	Ach g5 , BLEH!!!!! Dual Amd Opteron Here We Come!!

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Misanthropy Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Dundee Posts: 4,101	I saw the G5 advert, they're pretty. think I'll stick with my pathetic amd 2200+ for a bit though.

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humndislocation Hardcore is serious guys Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Dundee Posts: 5,996 Band: Blasphemous Necrorapist	Do you reckon a G5 would be faster than a dual P4s with hyper threading in a heavily multithreaded/multitasking environment? What about applications optimised heavily for MMX/SSE/SSE2 operations? I know RISC architecture is better than the PCs CISC architecture, but that doesn't mean that a RISC chip is faster than every CISC chip in existence. For example, I've often heard people try to say that the PS2 hardware is better than the XBox because it's RISC, but they ignore the fact that the Xbox is still much faster then the PS2 because it has a much much faster CPU regardless of the fact that it is CISC.