Message
imac comparison
2005-02-02 by GAmoore@aol.com
In a message dated 2/2/05 11:36:26 AM, kamm@... writes:
I can say that my
iMac, which was top of the line at the time I bought it, paled in comparison
to my older and less expensive PC.
I think Macs seem less snappy because of the more massive GUI. Mac OS 9 is must more responsive than X still. I think thats why PC's seem more responsive. To test you need to run the same kind of file - like sort a big Excel file, run a blur filter on a photoshop file or something.
By the way, I did find a comparison of the imac 20", the G5 tower 1.8 single, and 1.8 dual. The dual is about 20% faster than 1.8 single tower, and the single G5 tower is about 1% faster than the imac in their tests.
And the single 1.8s were about 60% faster than a 1 gig G4 emac, and the dual 1.8 was over 90% faster than the same 1 gig emac G4 reference.
There was one of the individual tests where the dual processor was twice as fast as the single - in ripping an MP3. But most of the other thigns were not a big difference.