[rescue] Powermac G5 V.s. MacBook

[Ian Finder]

What about support for newer OSes and apps? I'm a ppc fan as much as  
anyone else but apple is about to shit-house the support for our  
perfectly decent hardware- shouldn't that factor into your decision?

-I

On Dec 9, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Christopher Purdy <escher2 at chartermi.net>  
wrote:

>> I guess I never really swallowed the Apple "PPC is so much better  
>> than
>> Intel" pill, but how sure are you that a dual core2 macbook will be
>> slower than a dual G5?
>>
>> I would suspect that you may not benefit from this deal all that  
>> much.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jonathan.
>
> This is interesting - and keep in mind I'm using xbench for my  
> comparison - The Dual G5 beats the Macbook composite score by a  
> little bit... Mostly attributed to the terrible video on the  
> MacBook.  See Below:
>
>
> ---- Overall xbench ----
> Escher's MacBook            69.60    MacBook (Core 2)    2008-04-30  
> 19:08:42.0
> Escher's Power Mac G5 - a...    93.30    PowerMac G5 (Orig)     
> 2008-12-08 17:26:36.0
>
> Cpu wise G5 is not quite as fast:
> MacBook - 143.33
> PowerMac - 118.93
>
> The G5 with 6800GT video 3d performance smokes the MacBook with  
> Integrated Intel 3100:
> MacBook OGL : 22.23
> PowerMac: 109.34
>
> But the MacBook outperforms in Quartz:
> MacBook: 160.76
> PowerMac: 116.49
>
> Macbook also wins in memory speed , no surprise there:
> MacBook: 152.23
> PowerMac: 94.99
>
> Powermac wins on HDD Perf - But I *am* using Raid:
> MacBook: 37.98
> PowerMac: 51.16
>
> So, All in all was it a good trade?
>
> For me - yes.  I didn't sacrifice much in the CPU performance area,  
> but I gained tremendously in 3D graphics performance, which really  
> upset me about the original MacBook line....  I also have the  
> ability to expand, run a RAID setup, run dual headed (Properly),  
> more ram expandability (8 v.s. 4 gb max)...
>
> Keep in mind that I only used the Macbook as a stationary machine  
> anyways...
>
> Ohh yeah.... one more thing...
>
> *****The G5 is the coolest looking machine on the planet! *****
> ;)
>
> - Chris
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