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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@ raGan r
Roland: With these new machines, Apple surpassed Wintels by a mile.
You mean prior to the machines, Wintels had been thousands of miles ahead of Apple? Man. :-P Even Apple's benchmarks don't show much of a performance gain Intel can't beat within months.
Ahem. Well, Intel processors were faster before the arrival of these speed demons(G5). Apple benchmarks don't reflect the PPC970 processors entirely(os and apps aren't native 64-bits). It's like an i8086 DOS app running on a i80386 processor. It's gaining speed because of the increased MHz count. But the sofware running on the Xeon's where optimized.