FC4 PPC v Intel

[Mike MacCana]

Colin Charles wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 13:07 +0100, Sergio fernandez wrote:
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>>Just reading the article on installing FC4 on a mac mini and I am 
>>looking forward to giving it a try but I was wondering what sort of 
>>speeds do you get with the basic model.  Would it compare to a P4
>>2Ghzs 
>>machine.
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>Thats like comparing apples and oranges. 
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For what it's worth, my 1.4Ghz Mac Mini feels a lot more responsive 
running FC3 than a 2.4Ghz P4 Dell laptop. But that's probably that the 
Mini twice as much RAM - 512 vs 1GB.

Mike

>A Mac Mini 1.42GHz vs. a P4
>2GHz isn't a fair comparison (one's a G4 processor and the other's a P4
>processor). Now I don't know details off-hand, but Apple's website might
>have some comparisons where you see boosts in numbers on the g4's vs.
>the pentiums, thanks to altivec numbers and what not. Ultimately,
>ghz-to-ghz there's a number difference, but is it as powerful? Probably.
>Hard to say...
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