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Apple, AMD: look beyond clock speed

updated 09:10 am EST, Wed October 31, 2001

 
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Apple and AMD are both encouraging customers to look beyond clock speed when purchasing a computer; however, Intel says claims can be deceptive: "You can show that any machine is faster than any other machine with any particular operation. They can claim that the Mac is faster than the Pentium 4 at any particular thing but I can find seven or eight things where the Pentium 4 can beat the Mac."


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  1. neocyberdude

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    10/31, 09:24am | report spam | Reply |

    He's right...

    The Pentium 4 can:

    1) Crash faster
    2) Mangle your data faster
    3) Cause random garbage on your screen faster
    4) Send secret messages to Intel about your system faster
    5) Melt the outer case of your PC faster
    6) Make that little "Intel Inside" noise WAY better
    7) Do a great job making me glad I use a Mac

  1. Clive

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    10/31, 10:05am | report spam | Reply |

    Mac Processor?

    I think it's worth noted how well educated the Intel spokesman is, the "Mac" is not a processor, p4 is. Maybe someone needs to send him an overview of non-Intel processors?

  1. jodeo

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    10/31, 10:10am | report spam | Reply | delete

    There's More

    The Pentium could:

    1) Overheat faster
    2) Consume precious motherboard space faster
    3) Be EOL's faster for the newest Pentium-of-the-moth
    4) Produce incorrect mathematical division results faster
    5) Decrease in value on the resale market faster
    6) Inspire superficial TV commercials and marketing campaigns faster and more easily, and finally
    7) Sink to the bottom of a toilet faster (as PowerPCs never wind up there, anyway).

  1. wfzelle

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    10/31, 11:20am | report spam | Reply |

    benchmarking

    The point is that no benchmark is perfect. Mhz is increasingly becoming a foolish way to judge different processors as their are many other ways to boost performance.

    The best benchmark is a suit of applications, from wordprocessing to games to DTP. Still not perfect, but that's the best you can do. Apple is also guilty of just using Photoshop as a benchmark.

  1. Drakino

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    10/31, 12:00pm | report spam | Reply |

    Buy what suits you needs

    Companies need to get completly beyond the faster computer marketing, and start selling them based on what the user does. If they want a fast Photoshop machine, by all means sell them a Mac. If they want a fast gaming system, sell them a PC.

    How many cars are sold purley on how fast they go? Not that many. They are instead sold based on what they do. Buy a truck for hauling things, buy an SUV to carry many people, and buy a small car to be economical.

  1. jpellino

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    10/31, 12:48pm | report spam | Reply |

    Formula for CPU/OS...

    Macintosh for productivity,
    Linux for development,
    Windows for solitaire.

  1. paimin

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    Yeah right

    People buy SUV's to carry many people? Since when?

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    consumers tend not to...

    think. that's the problem. They want the "best" and "fastest" system out there. they don't care enough to think about what would be the best for them or what would make their tasks go faster (yes, funny grammer, but I don't care =p ).

  1. beno

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    10/31, 01:57pm | report spam | Reply |

    not!

    They want the "best" and "fastest" system out there

    nooo, they want the cheapest with the biggest numbers on the spec sheet.

  1. CERBERUS

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    10/31, 02:02pm | report spam | Reply |

    Yeah, this is a surprise.

    it's generally known that the Pentium 4 is faster than the Mac at just about everything. if you want to be able to do just about everything as fast as possible, you buy a Pentium 4. that's just the way it is

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