[Swordmaker]

Hmmmmm.

[Swordmaker]

Intel Based iMac not as fast as Jobs claims... PING!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[HAL9000]

Software that is designed to be multi-threaded will see the 2x-3x improvement in performance. Software that runs on only one processor will get only a small improvement.

[coconutt2000]

The article is a load of bunk.

First off the author is mistaken about the name of the new iMac. It is not an "iMac G5". Secondly there is nothing in the article that is new. Everyone already knows that using Rosetta is going to cause a performance hit until native applications come out.

I remember the negative press when Apple switched to OS X. That was perhaps a far more challenging transition than the one faced by Apple's switch to Intel. Given Rosetta and Apple's developer tools, the transition to Intel should be quicker.

People who buy an Intel iMac and expect PowerPC applications to run twice as fast are probably the same people who vote Democrat and expect tax cuts.

[Terpfen]

To be fair, Jobs' claims came from a special, optimized benchmark. He was being truthful, but truthful about a meaningless benchmark. Performance for native Intel apps is about 20% better, which is still a great improvement.

Now I just need to actually buy a MacBook Pro... it's difficult being in college, with no job. Damn.

[Swordmaker]

...moving its loyal user base to a new hardware platform and needs them to keep paying premium prices for its hardware.

Do I detect a bias in the author of this article? Yup.

[Darksheare]

"Oops" ping.

[CheneyChick]

But this is an unusually sensitive time for Apple.

When hasn't it been?

[jalisco555]

Walt Mossberg said that the performance under emulation was the same as that on the previous Imac. Where did they get this 50% performance drop?

[Tribune7]

I think someone who doesn't wait a year before buying an Intel machine, is nuts.

[SunkenCiv]

I guess that's why there hasn't been a big blowout price on the PPC models.

[Bush2000]

Steve Jobs' much publicised claim of a two-to-three-times speed increase in the new Intel-based iMac is bunkem, according to the latest benchmark tests.

I'm shocked, shocked, shocked that Jobs would either deliberately lie or make incompetent claims...

[DesScorp]

Steve Jobs lies again? Nooooo! Say it ain't so!

Now watch the Apple Slaves come out of hiding and throw their bodies onto the grenade to protect their Dear Leader; that Reality Distortion Field is somethin' else, eh?

[Petronski]

Leo Laporte reported on his KVI radio show that his iMac was just not as fast as the one Jobs demonstrated at MacWorld.

Very peculiar.


I can't wait to hear what the TWITs have to say about this.