The register: Intel macs speed tests

[retrocool]

Only 25% faster running native code.
50% slower in emulation:

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/01/23/intel_macs_25pc_faster/

Makes for grim reading!

retrocool

 

[Mord]

ok so your meant to judge a system running on a new architecture on the first run of apps, best case it's twice as fast, with optimization everything elce can be, it's just opinionated tripe.

 

[amin]

That wasn't a deep read. The whole article falls apart when you simply consider that Apple isn't tied to Intel. A move to AMD, for example, would be simple. No mention made of Intel's mobile chips. Bleh.

 

[jared_kipe]

BUT.... barefeats now has their first of many tests up and shows about 33% improvement and 200% improvement on their two tests respectively.

http://barefeats.com/imcd.html

 

[plinden]

This is just a second hand report on this: http://www.macworld.com/2006/01/features/imaclabtest1/index.php

that has already been discussed at least once already here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/175624/

 

[jared_kipe]

That wasn't a deep read. The whole article falls apart when you simply consider that Apple isn't tied to Intel. A move to AMD, for example, would be simple. No mention made of Intel's mobile chips. Bleh.

True that, intel has had the fastest and least battery hungry mobile chip for just as long as its been loosing to AMD on the desktops. From what I've been doing (before she went in to get a new LCD) it was just about as quick as my dual 1.8G5. Things will get better especially when new versions of the OS and new universal software show up.

EDIT: In fact slightly overclocked Pentium M's in desktops are faster than P4s, and much more efficient.