_bnkr612 said:
Can anyone explain to me why I read so much about how slow the 1.6 G5 is. I am student who uses Macromedia and Adobe apps as well as OS X apps. I have yet to have any feeling of slow. I did add 512mb of RAM.
Why would a dual be better for what I do? Based off of comments I have read in other posts concerning G5 1.6's.
Cheers,
_bnkr
Basically, it works like this... A processor handles tasks that the OS tells it needs to be done, queing them up so that they're executed in a certain order. With a single processor system, there's the one unit to do all the worrk, but in multiple-processor systems, it can work on more things at once.
This is partially alleviated in modern computers by a process called multithreading, where 'threads' of processing tasks are worked on in part, rotating through a slightly different queue so that all active processes are in flight at once. When you have a machine with more than one processor, it does this even more efficiently, because it can kick the threads to whichever processor is under the lowest load.
This is most useful in program that are MP-aware, and those are usual professional applications like Photoshop, Macromedia's apps, and so on. Also, the 1.6 uses lower-frequency RAM than the two higher models (PC2700 instead of PC3200), and has a lower bus speed. Overall, it is slower than the other towers, but it still screams compared to what i'm using, so don't worry too much. If you're a student and have a G5, you've got a lot of us beat.
