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AMD's technology has a hand in this

I tend to get a bit confused when I read posts here with Mac owners dismissing PC hardware as inferior. I think the new G5 tower is impressive and I like the fact that Apple can remain a player if they keep putting out nice machines for the content-creation crowd that swears by 'em.
I can respect the opinion of Mac users that simply don't like using windows or who have used crappy cheapo PC's that certainly give a bad impression - especially when compared to the experience of using one of the new Alienware or Sony Machines that cost as much as the new G5.
However, all of the current best hardware is available for PC's with the exception of the new firewire standard. For example: all of the best videocards, soundcards, and with the Athlon 64 - which dusts the G5 in everything but Photoshop - as AMD does not have a patch for that program as of yet that I'm aware of that takes advantage of the 64 bit capabilities of the Athlon.
The G5 and the Athlon 64 have hypertransport technology (AMD's technology). They both use the same memory. They both are fully 32 bit compatible and scream running 32 bit code. AMD won all of those benchmarks (tom's hardware) because the memory controller is on the processor die - which removes a huge bottleneck for overall system throughput. Intel and IBM processors(G5) do not have this yet.
I don't mean to flame anyone but these are facts. I've read that the G5 is extremely scalable - which has to be a huge welcome for those who watched wintel machines pull away performance-wise the past few years while Motorola struggled with the scaling of the G4. I build my own machines - and I have two AMD systems with ASUS motherboards, Nvidia videocards, Audigy and Audigy2 soundcards, not available for Macs yet. Neither of these machines has EVER had a system lockup. That's how good hardware behaves. Now these aren't Emachines or cheap-ass Dell's we're talking about. One post here correctly derides them as the trash they are. My hardware is easily as expensive as a Mac or even more so if I buy it from a good PC maker like Alienware or Voodoo instead of building it myself.
My point here is - these "inferior" windows machines still have the fastest benchmarks on real programs that are currently available. I'd run OSX on my hardware if there was more entertainment software - I have NO love for Microsoft, but it works great on good hardware. My hardware is easily as good as any Apple product and better in many respects. But I do like the new G5 - and I'm happy for my Mac owning friends that are buying them. But my computer is pretty damn good too. Peace

Posted by: zeusfuse   Posted on: 10/25/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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