Comment Megahertz Myth? (Score 1) 118
Apple's really pushing the whole 'megahertz myth' concept as a way to reassure Mac buyers that an 800Mhz G4 is just as good as these 1.xGhz monsters from AMD/Intel. They had the full dog-and-pony-show including animated slides at MacWorld a couple of weeks back.
What's the consensus around here about such things? I get the impression that the AMD/Intel competition keeps the x86 arch on the cheaper end that PPC for obvious reasons.
It's kind of annoying that it is hard to know what to trust and how to benchmark different chips. Overall, the CPU only makes up a portion of the package when you buy a PC (RAM, HDD, Optical disk, video, etc being others), but it has traditionally had mindshare of being important beyond such other things. And people tend to only look at clockspeed.
What's the best way to compare these things?
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What's the consensus around here about such things? I get the impression that the AMD/Intel competition keeps the x86 arch on the cheaper end that PPC for obvious reasons.
It's kind of annoying that it is hard to know what to trust and how to benchmark different chips. Overall, the CPU only makes up a portion of the package when you buy a PC (RAM, HDD, Optical disk, video, etc being others), but it has traditionally had mindshare of being important beyond such other things. And people tend to only look at clockspeed.
What's the best way to compare these things?
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