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Was the performance true on Apple marketing benchmarks or in actual use? Apple has a looooong history of cherrpicking benchmarks, especially when their arch wa
by izacus 3y ago
Was the performance true on Apple marketing benchmarks or in actual use?
Apple has a looooong history of cherrpicking benchmarks, especially when their arch wasn't as fast as competing Intels.
- rsynnott 3y agoActual use. You’re probably thinking of the G5/PPC970, which was on introduction more of a case of “the fastest, provided absolutely the only thing you care about is vector operations”.
- izacus 3y agoI'm mostly asking because as much as I remember the G3s weren't really noticably faster than my (then) Windows machines... but memory can mislead.
- acdha 3y agoIt may also have changed while you owned one: the stuff which was optimized native code ran quite well but there were also plenty of rushed ports or things running under Rosetta. I don’t think it was Photoshop but I remember some of the designers I knew commenting that one app shipping a true optimized port was like getting a new computer.
- mortenjorck 3y agoTwo big things that affected the cross platform experience and perception of speed at the time were the twin pillars of the late 90s web, Internet Explorer and Flash, both of which had superior optimization for Windows and x86. The introduction of Safari is an underrated milestone in changing that, and I would suggest the Mac didn’t really match the Windows browsing experience inclusive of Flash until the introduction of Intel Macs.