RE: The Challenge+ G4 and Athlon

"John Brubaker" <photoman@novagate.com> · Thu, 9 Dec 1999 08:04:04 -0500

Rafe - I just upgraded to an Athlon 700 on Asus System board.  If you give
me the benchmarking program, or specs., I will run them for you.  My system
does very well with Photoshop, but I probably need a bit more memory (I have
256m. now and should have 512m. ).  Thanks --- John.

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Subject: Re: The Challenge+ G4 and Athlon

At 08:54 PM 12/8/99 EST, Steve M. wrote:

[qouting dd-b@dd-b.net]
> And I would like to see some Mac numbers for the same task as well.
> Knowledge is power, or something, eh?
> <snip>

>This company clearly screws up on a regular basis, too bad that G4 is
supposed
>to be fast. I'll never no. I'am sticking with my garbage PC...

>See the open letter to Apple. Its says it all.
>http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/3q99/apple.html

Hmm. Interesting letter at that URL there.  Talk
about fanning the flames, though...

Look, one of the fundamental differences between
the two camps here is that there really is *no* single
company behind the "Wintel" architecture.  With Cyrix
out of the game, the field of CPU manufacturers has narrowed
(too bad) but surely others will emerge to claim a piece
of the market.  Whatever happened to NexGen?

The OS market for PCs is, IMHO, too much of a monopoly,
and too heavily dominated by M$. I'd like to see that
change.  The real heroes in this battle are Richard
Stallman and Linus Torvalds, who truly "think different."
Apple wasn't the only outfit steamrolled by M$; IBM's
OS2 was also a very worthy contender, in its time.

I really have no idea how an Athlon will compare
to Intel's fastest P-3.  I'm rooting for AMD
these days just 'cuz they're working so damned hard
to challenge Intel.  The AMD processor on my home
PC delivers a great bang for the buck.  I'm rooting
for Linux, too, for similar reasons.

No public response yet to my Photoshop timing measurements.
Whatsupwitdat? ...

rafe b.

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