[Swordmaker]

Mac SPEED TEST PING - latest PC vs Mac G5 shoot off...


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[pageonetoo]

Yep, it looks like the Wintel machines are good for games! If you want to do the serious lifting, get a Mac!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

OK...they say:

They were trying to choose a high end PC to use as their recommended workstation for themselves as well as for those remote scientists wanting to run the custom visualization software produced at SDSC and commercial applications (like Maya).

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Cost was likely a factor in their choices, but can't be sure.

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[Bush2000]

Yet more PHONY Mac benchmarks. You'd think that people would remember the last few times that Mac fanatics have tried to pull this kind of crap...