Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 24th Jun 2003 15:32 UTC
I was present at Apple's WWDC yesterday and witnessed one of the historical moments in Apple's history, the introduction of their 64-bit platform. Am I impressed? The answer is complicated. I was happy to see Apple moving on and deliver. But I would have expected nothing less from a 4 billion tech company who had the need to catch up with the "other" platform, the 32-bit PC. You all heard by now what's new in yesterday's press releases and news coverings. But here is a wrap up of the first day of the conference and a commentary on what Apple really announced yesterday, underneath its surrounding distortion field.
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Your article did not talk about panther being a factor in speed. There can be an arguement made that the G5 and Panter optimization still needs to be worked out.
The benchmarks are as usual a pony show for the masses. And to be Honest I think Steve Jobs actually believs his hype at this point. While I am a MAC person, I do not like the phony benchmarks Steve uses.
As for the optimization of the softeare during the tests, it will all pan out after some people get there hands on the new G5's
The article had a negative tone toward the whole thing, and I think the objective look at where is was announced needs to be factored in. They are showing it to the developers to get them motivated. And with that you do not want to go on stage and say " we finally caight up"
And Apple has surpassed the x86 mnachines in some respects. Other than the CPU's it looks like Apple is heading down the right path. And it seems that is what the article was missing. The look at utilizations of new technology (hypertransport, ect) And if you consider the speed roadmaps of INTEL and IBM both increasing a GHz then that speed increases will infact favor IBM proportionally.