tag:dashes.com,2009:/anil//1/tag:www.dashes.com,2005:/anil//1.2158- 2009-08-10T20:24:22Z Comments for Dear Wired News/News.com A Blog About Making Culture Movable Type 4.3-en tag:www.dashes.com,2005:/anil//1.2158 2005-06-06T16:18:13Z 2005-08-12T06:49:59Z Dear Wired News/News.com I would like to read the story about various Mac websites or periodicals dissing the Pentium in the past and then greeting today's announcement with... Anil http://anildash.com/ I would like to read the story about various Mac websites or periodicals dissing the Pentium in the past and then greeting today's announcement with excitement and glee. I don't have the time to look up those old articles myself, but it's a good way to get both the Mac-haters and the Mac-supporters angry at you and reading the piece.

Tell your assignment editor that I'm guaranteeing at least a number 10 spot on Blogdex, and a lengthy long tail shelf life as people continually refer back to the story in future blog posts, either to demonstrate the fickleness of the Mac audience or its open-minded willingness to change and evolve.

]]> tag:www.dashes.com,2005:/anil//1.2158-comment:7412 Comment from Jeevan on 2005-06-06 Jeevan Various Mac websites that diss the Pentium like this one? ;-)

I especially like this quote from there:

The PowerPC G5 out-shoots the Pentium 4 in a battery of tests. But it’s in the rough-and-tumble of real-world performance that the G5 really comes into its own — shredding the PC’s reputation in the process.

]]> 2005-06-06T17:50:56Z tag:www.dashes.com,2005:/anil//1.2158-comment:7414 Comment from apb on 2005-06-07 apb http://www.asheesh.org/ Jeevan, if you check out the charts you linked to, they point out that the G5 advantage is CPU cycle for CPU cycle. That is to say, the 2Ghz G5 would crush a 2Ghz Pentium 4.

But the move to Intel architecture is based in some part on IBM's inability to push CPU clock speeds as years go around the real-world clock. I think the real point made here is just that Intel (and AMD, I would say) are much more interested in desktop CPUs and making them faster than IBM is.

Years ago, Steve Jobs promised 3 gigahertz, and he hasn't been able to deliver it. He wants to, but IBM won't. So, he "made the switch."

-- Asheesh.

]]> 2005-06-07T15:59:28Z tag:www.dashes.com,2005:/anil//1.2158-comment:7415 Comment from Jeevan on 2005-06-07 Jeevan Asheesh--I wasn't linking to those pages to show that the G5 was faster than comparable Intel processors. Linking to Apple-made benches to show the G5 is better than the P4 would be like linking to Microsoft-funded studies that show that Windows is faster/cheaper than Linux solutions.

I was linking them only to show that Apple itself had always been putting down the x86 platform so their switch to x86 is ironic/surprising/humorous.

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