dont lie about numbers. (Score 1)

If you are going to compare numbers on Unix, NT, Mac, and etc. You have to level the playing field. You can not compare Unix to any of the gui based systems unless you are running an x-session on the Unix machine. X-Windows, from personal experience, tends to need more horsepower than the other systems. Figiting with the mouse alone can chew up several percent in performance. There are several x-displays that will basically stop a system generating x-graphics. X-Eyes is bad enough but the rest are much worse. You can only compare a Unix benchmark to DOS benchmark unless you add the additional computation.

Does anyone know if PhotoShop is SMP wise. A lot of SMP systems lose 5% or so as the number of processors goes up. The rational is that it is spending .85 out of the expected 1.8 increase for a dual cpu system badly handling state changes. When you have to save all of the registers and tranfer them to the other cpu so it can have its turn, you lose performance. Adding more cpus just makes it worse.