Apple Intel Mac performance

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  1. scq

    scq What's a Dremel?

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    Yes, we all probably know about the new Intel Macs by now, and if you're in this forum, you're probably shocked and amazed at how PowerPC just got pwnx0rb473d.

    I've always juggled between wanting a Mac and a PC, and despite my two forrays into Apple, I always went back to Windows. Yay, as times are changing! Not only are Apple's X86 hardware pretty competitive, their prices are too!

    But anyways, think:

    If a Core Duo could destroy the G4 by 4-5X, and G5 by 2-3X (even if those numbers are very ideal situations), how would OS X run on something say - an Athlon FX-64, or the mother of all multi-threaders, a Pentium 955?
     
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  2. Sam0r

    Sam0r It's been a while

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    Buy one and try it ;)
     
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  3. customh

    customh conflagration.

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    OSX can run on these platforms? I thought they had it locked to only apple hardware
     
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  4. Arkuden

    Arkuden mow?

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    Thats what god.... I mean Steve Jobs says.... :worried: :D
     
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  5. scq

    scq What's a Dremel?

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    Well, Apple technically, could run on any X86 machine. I'm just saying, hypotherically, if some h4x05... I mean Apple, loaded up OS X on a Pentium 955, how crazily fast it could run, given the dual core HT, and OS X's ability to multithread.
     
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  6. fev

    fev Industry Fallout

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    did someone miss the hype?
     
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  7. customh

    customh conflagration.

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    Well id switch to apple if i could load it on a comp that I built
     
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  8. Sam0r

    Sam0r It's been a while

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    As long as the pc you've built supports SSE2 (SSE3 pref) you can run OS X86, but you wont get support for it on these boards.

    Have a google.
     
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  9. customh

    customh conflagration.

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    No spt for it on these boards because.....
     
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  10. seebul

    seebul Minimodder

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    its not legal
     
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  11. Sam0r

    Sam0r It's been a while

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    And before you ask, yes, that means it is illegal.

    Software piracy (which it is since Mac OS X86 has now been released) is a crime.. yadda yadda :blah:
     
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  12. seebul

    seebul Minimodder

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    yep....unfortunatly
     
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  13. customh

    customh conflagration.

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    whoa, i dont get it, if i were to go and buy tiger would or wouldnt I be able to load it on my AMD based system?
     
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  14. Sam0r

    Sam0r It's been a while

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    Not yet, maybe when they've released the Universal Binary version.

    Although it'll take some hacking (I think it'll need a linux style bootloader due to PC's not yet supporting EFI, and also a kernel modification to get around the security) it should run.
     
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  15. customh

    customh conflagration.

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    Thanks for the insight Sam0r
     
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  16. Tomm

    Tomm I also ride trials :¬)

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    You can download versions of it with full instructions and installers, no hacking required. It's just not very good though. Maybe if all the hardware you had was 100% compatible it would be ok, though.
     
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  17. Sam0r

    Sam0r It's been a while

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    Yeah. I have one, only 10.4.1 though.

    It can be upgraded to 10.4.3 though.

    Anyway, we REALLY need to find some user benchmarks for these things, although its obvious they're going to totally pwn the current G5 iMacs due to the dual core-ness.
     
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  18. customh

    customh conflagration.

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    no kidding, when you gonna order a new imac Sam0r?? :lol:
     
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  19. Sam0r

    Sam0r It's been a while

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    I'm not going to :p

    2005FPW before anything else atm
     
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  20. customh

    customh conflagration.

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    was kidding, hope somebody on the boards gets one soon though, would like to see real world stuff
     
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