15 Aug
2002
15 Aug
'02
1:59 a.m.
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Owen Robertson wrote:
on 8/15/02 2:22 AM, Patrick Finnegan at
pat(a)purdueriots.com wrote:
Ahh, A G4. Yea, forgot about the vector processor. Of coures, in real
life most things *I* do don't anything that'd use it. Otherwise, I think
I'd win.
This is the same reason an Astronautics ZS-1 at 25 or 33MHz could
outperform a P-IV 1GHz for some vector ops... But most 'real-life'
non-graphical or simulation/calculator type applications can't make
advantage of it.
If you're looking for REALLY bad Price/Performance ratios for "standard
stuff," look at Sun's Blade 100s. I swear that an 300MHz Sun Ultra 5 is
just as fast (and a helluva lot cheaper).
-- Pat
Assuming that Photoshop for the PC is dual-proc
capable, I'm sure my Dual
1.466GHz athlon could beat it hands-down. Maybe I just have too much
faith or just know how crappy the PowerPC Price/Performance ratio really
is.
But you're overlooking one important thing here. Photoshop is optimized for
AltiVec (Velocity Engine, as Apple calls it). That gives it a tremendous
speed boost on G4 systems. And if you run it on a dual processor G4, it
really screams. No matter how many platforms Adobe ports it to, Photoshop
is, and will always be a Mac application. Processor performance and
everything else aside, Photoshop is deisgned from the ground up for the Mac,
and adapted to run on Windows.