Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 30th Jan 2006 20:48 UTC, submitted by Matt Simpson
GeekPatrol puts their new cross platform benchmarking tool to work and compares 12 machines including the new iMacs, PowerMacs, an Athlon64, a P4c, and a Xeon. "The PowerPC G5 is still a good processor. In fact, it's still a great processor. Apple isn't switching to Intel chips because Intel chips perform better, but rather because a G5 would melt through the bottom of a laptop. The Athlon 64 edged out the Pentium 4c on all the CPU tests, while the Pentium 4c edged out the Athlon 64 on all the memory tests. It seems to me that Intel and AMD have had their different strengths all along, so I don't find this surprising. The Intel Core Duo is a great processor. It performed as well or better than the PowerPC G5 at similar clock speeds (1.8GHz and 2.0GHz), and has nowhere to go but up."
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2005-10-06
Universal binaries are the new name for what OSX has been supporting for ages but has been called Fat binaries.
Fat binaries though, while OSX supported it, have not been very commonly used for more then the PowerPC target. You can think of Fat binaries as multiple executable files linked into one (fat) file. Depending on what sort of machine you're running at, OSX takes the one needed.