Give me a ******* break. Cinebench is a piece of crap. BEnchmarking is never completely accurate, and guess what, it takes (I'm not kidding) 8 seconds for Adobe Photoshop CS to load with the dozens of plugins, over TWO THOUSAND fonts, a few dozen swatches and hundreds of custom brushes. 8 seconds from the time I double click to the time I can start work.
That's on my old 933 MHz G4 processer with 1 Gig of RAM. Is yours faster? Yeah, maybe. But then again my machine is over 3 years old. You PC won't be able to do what my Mac does in its third year with updated software, I guarantee that. Windows is a shot in the dark as far as anything. My work PC (A Dell with 2 GHz processor and 512 MB of RAM takes three minutes to boot, my old powermac about 30 seconds). OS X kicks Windows ass.
Back to the original topic. Apple is switching to Intel because IBM sucks at delivering what they promise, AMD is not flexible or large enough (they do have some nice processors, though) and this is a smart decision, especially since Intel is on the forefront of processing technology and their next gen processors are going to be insanely great. Pentium, Celeron? Crap. Give me soemthing bigger and better! And they will.
That's on my old 933 MHz G4 processer with 1 Gig of RAM. Is yours faster? Yeah, maybe. But then again my machine is over 3 years old. You PC won't be able to do what my Mac does in its third year with updated software, I guarantee that. Windows is a shot in the dark as far as anything. My work PC (A Dell with 2 GHz processor and 512 MB of RAM takes three minutes to boot, my old powermac about 30 seconds). OS X kicks Windows ass.
Back to the original topic. Apple is switching to Intel because IBM sucks at delivering what they promise, AMD is not flexible or large enough (they do have some nice processors, though) and this is a smart decision, especially since Intel is on the forefront of processing technology and their next gen processors are going to be insanely great. Pentium, Celeron? Crap. Give me soemthing bigger and better! And they will.
That's pretty good considering it's a single chip compared to dual chips. I'm not on either side, I was actually under the impression that PowerPC easily handed x86 it's own ass, but it is not so apparently. Since the P4 line is also CONSIDERABLY slower then it should be we can see that there's only room for more speed with the new generation of chips Intel is planning on putting out.