IBM pushes Linux on Power processors

Yes - if you choose suitable benchmarks: If you find a good set of benchmarks, of course you can compare them. But the problem is finding benchmarks that everyone accepts. For benchmarks to be useful, you generally have to work out what it is you are trying to prove (say best graphics processing performance or best file server or application server etc.) then select the benchmark to do it.

Apple's G5 architecture uses an IBM PowerPC CPU, however the rest of the design is closed and proprietary. You can't copy it. The architecture for IBM's servers is also closed and proprietary. It is likely the two are quite similar but sufficiently different that you can't directly compare them based on specs.

The bottom line for most businesses will be which one provides them with the best bang for buck for their specific purpose - file server, applications server, graphics, scientific, database ... whatever. And likely Apple will win for some uses at certain price points and IBM will win at others.; Posted by: Fred Fredrickson Posted on: 01/21/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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