Tuesday, August 6, 2002
Fight the hype! The myth of the Apple Mhz
Posted by Jason Dunn in "OFF-TOPIC" @ 11:00 AM
http://www.digitalvideoediting.com/2002/07_jul/features/cw_macvspc2.htm
My wife Ashley works with a team of people in a creative design department, and they all use Macs. No surprise there. Yet what surprises me is how deluded these Mac users are when it comes to what the real advantages of their Macs are. They still persist in clinging to the hope that somehow, the words of Steve Jobs will warp quantum reality and give them a computer that really is the fastest on the block, Mhz be damned! Sorry Apple boy, it just 'aint so. The advantage of the Mac in the graphics industry is that most people were trained on it and no how to use it. It's a matter of familiarity, not superiority of the platform. That's not a bad thing mind you - so why can't they just accept that? We all started out in life drinking milk and eating mashed up peas - then we moved on and got a Windows PC.
"In our first round of head-to-head Mac vs. PC testing, we pitted a dual Athlon 1800+MP machine against a Mac dual 1GHz G4 using six Adobe After Effects benchmarks that tested all kinds of capabilities. For round two, by popular demand, we now compare a single-processor Dell Precision Workstation 320 with a 2.53GHz chip to the Dual 1GHz Mac, and also to the fastest machine we've tested here so far, a dual Athlon 2000+MP machine by BOXX. And we'll be testing all three machines using not only After Effects 5.5 benchmarks, but Adobe Photoshop 7.0 benchmarks as well. So which machine came out ahead?"
Here's a hint: it wasn't the pretty one. There are two more articles that debunk the gossamer threads of Apple mythology. Macs have some great things going for them, but raw CPU power is not one of them, and I wish Jobs would accept that and quite bragging about his "Velocity Engine". Apple should just accept that Motorola is focused more on low-power CPUs for mobile devices than high-powered CPUs for desktop computers, and accept the smothering embrace of Intel. It's inevitable.
I know I'm just asking for flames from the Mac users that read this site, but this had to be said.
My wife Ashley works with a team of people in a creative design department, and they all use Macs. No surprise there. Yet what surprises me is how deluded these Mac users are when it comes to what the real advantages of their Macs are. They still persist in clinging to the hope that somehow, the words of Steve Jobs will warp quantum reality and give them a computer that really is the fastest on the block, Mhz be damned! Sorry Apple boy, it just 'aint so. The advantage of the Mac in the graphics industry is that most people were trained on it and no how to use it. It's a matter of familiarity, not superiority of the platform. That's not a bad thing mind you - so why can't they just accept that? We all started out in life drinking milk and eating mashed up peas - then we moved on and got a Windows PC.
"In our first round of head-to-head Mac vs. PC testing, we pitted a dual Athlon 1800+MP machine against a Mac dual 1GHz G4 using six Adobe After Effects benchmarks that tested all kinds of capabilities. For round two, by popular demand, we now compare a single-processor Dell Precision Workstation 320 with a 2.53GHz chip to the Dual 1GHz Mac, and also to the fastest machine we've tested here so far, a dual Athlon 2000+MP machine by BOXX. And we'll be testing all three machines using not only After Effects 5.5 benchmarks, but Adobe Photoshop 7.0 benchmarks as well. So which machine came out ahead?"
Here's a hint: it wasn't the pretty one. There are two more articles that debunk the gossamer threads of Apple mythology. Macs have some great things going for them, but raw CPU power is not one of them, and I wish Jobs would accept that and quite bragging about his "Velocity Engine". Apple should just accept that Motorola is focused more on low-power CPUs for mobile devices than high-powered CPUs for desktop computers, and accept the smothering embrace of Intel. It's inevitable.
I know I'm just asking for flames from the Mac users that read this site, but this had to be said.
