Dual Xeons - What do you think?

Kevin Shaw · January 16th, 2005, 06:03 PM

<<<-- Originally posted by Rhett Allen : Here is a little benchmark comparison with a few different computers and processor configurations. Maybe it will help you get closer to a decision.

http://www.barefeats.com/pentium4.html -->>>

Note that this comparison is badly out of date, with none of the updates promised "during the next two weeks" way back at the end of September. And even those updates would be old news today with Xeon processors running at up to 3.6 GHz on a faster system bus. The best thing you can learn from the BareFeats results is that some applications are much better optimized for Macs (and for dual processors) than others, which shouldn't come as a big surprise to anyone.

For a more up-to-date comparison, try this link. Apple didn't win on any of these tests...

http://www.digitalproducer.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=28168-1

January 16th, 2005, 06:03 PM	#16
Kevin Shaw Inner Circle Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Sacramento, CA Posts: 2,488	<<<-- Originally posted by Rhett Allen : Here is a little benchmark comparison with a few different computers and processor configurations. Maybe it will help you get closer to a decision. http://www.barefeats.com/pentium4.html -->>> Note that this comparison is badly out of date, with none of the updates promised "during the next two weeks" way back at the end of September. And even those updates would be old news today with Xeon processors running at up to 3.6 GHz on a faster system bus. The best thing you can learn from the BareFeats results is that some applications are much better optimized for Macs (and for dual processors) than others, which shouldn't come as a big surprise to anyone. For a more up-to-date comparison, try this link. Apple didn't win on any of these tests... http://www.digitalproducer.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=28168-1