MACINTELS!

Nayr · Post by **Nayr** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:04 pm

anyone getting one? my parents are seriously considering the iMac.

Lugaruman100 · Post by **Lugaruman100** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 5:32 pm

Intel imac looks close to the high end g5 tower. It has a 128 mb radeon x1600 or you could ask them for a 256 mb version. The processer sounds right but it's a bit off. Sounds decent for mid range overall.

LibrarianBrent · Post by **LibrarianBrent** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 6:50 pm

Badassery.

leDoOd · Post by **leDoOd** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:36 pm

Insane.
If it weren't $2400 for a MacBook, I'd get one right now.

zip · Post by **zip** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:49 pm

I find it interesting that the Powerbook G4 was (according to Apple) much faster than a PC processor of the same clock speed, and yet Apple's new Intel powered 'MacBook' is '4x as fast' as the Powerbook G4.

Kalexon · Post by **Kalexon** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 9:53 pm

I'm going to be getting the G5 iMac, the one that's only comprimised of a flat screen with stand on it.

Silb · Post by **Silb** » Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:30 pm

zip wrote:I find it interesting that the Powerbook G4 was (according to Apple) much faster than a PC processor of the same clock speed, and yet Apple's new Intel powered 'MacBook' is '4x as fast' as the Powerbook G4.

The only logical explanation would be that MacOS X is 6x+ as fast as Windows... *ahem*

Lugaruman100 · Post by **Lugaruman100** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 1:17 am

leDoOd wrote:Insane.
If it weren't $2400 for a MacBook, I'd get one right now.

It's better then paying for a $2,999 powerbook 4 years back. The Macbooks are a bit off in the speed department, I wonder how well they run doom 3, the intel port is coming out as soon as aspyr talks about it.

leDoOd · Post by **leDoOd** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 7:51 pm

I still don't have $2,400 on me, regardless of how less this one costs.

GreenAlge · Post by **GreenAlge** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 2:05 am

zip wrote:I find it interesting that the Powerbook G4 was (according to Apple) much faster than a PC processor of the same clock speed, and yet Apple's new Intel powered 'MacBook' is '4x as fast' as the Powerbook G4.

That's 'cause the Macintels aren't using P4s

Duo > G4 > P4

In other words, Apple compared the G4 to the Pentium 4. The G4 clocks slower than the P4, but processes more information per cycle. Lately, processor manufactureres have realized that clock speed isn't eveything. The Duo seems a good example of that; along with the fact that Intel's clock speed has been sitting around 3GHz for quite some time now (I think...?)

No doubt, by the way, that Apple (et. al.) did (and does) do whatever they could to exaggerate benchmarks, but the fact remains that the G4 processor performs better than a comparably clocked P4 processor. I've got an 800Mhz G4 iMac at home (I'm off at school now, with a G5

) and there's no way an 800Mhz P4 could handle the stuff that G4 does.

_Nik

zip · Post by **zip** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 1:20 pm

GreenAlge wrote: No doubt, by the way, that Apple (et. al.) did (and does) do whatever they could to exaggerate benchmarks, but the fact remains that the G4 processor performs better than a comparably clocked P4 processor. I've got an 800Mhz G4 iMac at home (I'm off at school now, with a G5 ) and there's no way an 800Mhz P4 could handle the stuff that G4 does.

_Nik

A G4 does outperform a P4 of the same clock speed, but since P4s clock 3x higher than G4s and cost less, the point is somewhat moot.

EvolPenguin · Post by **EvolPenguin** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:39 pm

Wow, I haven't been here in a while, but to start it off, I guess I'll post good news. I'm getting the intel iMac this week. I can't wait to start it up, I'm zoning out in school.

Alex