Geeks: Post your computer specs.

[dficken]

He could have the other one taped to the outside of his case.
He never said it was more efficient

 

[SpicyMchaggis]

macs..they're alright..i use them heavily at school...the new G5..my god such bulls***..I have never seen more lies in my entire life..2 processors..and they max at 2.0GHZ each..so 2+2 is 4 right? haha..dumb ******* apple...4GHZ..right because adding 2 processors together like that makes it that fast..Sure, Its fast..not that fast..the northwood P4 takes it..hell in gameplay..mine will bury it..oh yea thats right..there is no gameplay on a mac..sunrise..sunset

 

[t3ase]

ibm clone
486dx
4 megs ram
520k hard drive
keyboard
mouse
external dial up modem (not very fast)
15" viewsonic monitor (color)
running windows (not sure which version?)
aol 1.2

You are kidding, right?

 

[bazooka joe]

ya, was waitin for someone to pick up on that!! this was my first machine back in 92. i actually still have it and have upgraded it, new mother board, video card it's a p2, run up the clock speed a bit to 266!!! blazin!! .but i can't do anything else to it, it's day's are over. we still use it as a back up machine, but boy is it slow.

 

[chuyler1]

Home:

Primary Windows XP Machine:
AMD AthlonXP 2000
1024MB PC2700 RAM
MSI Motherboard (on board NIC/Snd)
NVidia GeForce4 64MB (i think)
Western Digitial 60GB 7200rpm HD
el cheapo DVD drive
el cheapo 28x CD Burner
Iomega Zip 100 drive (handi down)
Soundblaster 16 PCI (only for the game port really)

Firewall/DHCP server/Router/WebServer Machine:
Sun SparcStation 10 running Solaris 8
40mhz CPU w/ 512k cache (oh yeah baby)
128mb RAM
Sun 2MB framebuffer (video card)
2GB internal SCSI drive
1GB external SCSI drive
Quad Speed external CDROM (with CD caddy!)
Floppy drive doesn't work.

Laptop/mailserver
NEC Versa V50 running Slackware Linux
486DX 50Mhz
20MB RAM
7" viewable screen
800MB HD
(side note: I was watching Law & Order reruns two nights ago and they used this computer to track down a biker who was posting stories about illegal activity on an online bulitin board. )

 

[Diligent Fish]

Main Computers:
Athlon Thunderbird 1 GHz (gaming rig)
Dell X200 Latitude (work laptop)
Apple iBook 500 MHz
Apple Beige G3 @ 266 MHz

All those are connected via ethernet and wireless to a fiber network.

In the closet:
Apple PowerBook 190
Apple PowerMac 8600
Apple Duo 530 (I think)
Apple IIsi
Apple Mac II
Various pentium systems

I also manage a server room full of dual proc machines.

 

[bud_d]

macs..they're alright..i use them heavily at school...the new G5..my god such bulls***..I have never seen more lies in my entire life..2 processors..and they max at 2.0GHZ each..so 2+2 is 4 right? haha..dumb ******* apple...4GHZ..right because adding 2 processors together like that makes it that fast..Sure, Its fast..not that fast..the northwood P4 takes it..hell in gameplay..mine will bury it..oh yea thats right..there is no gameplay on a mac..sunrise..sunset

ummm they never said 4, it's just dual 2ghz, many OS X applications take advantage of dual proc machines. Big applications like Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, and Pro Tools, each huge in there industry are nice and speedy on dual proc machines.
And are northwood's faster then Xeon's? Cause the g5 beat Xeon's making all other factors aside from processor as similar as possible.

 

[stepson]

I have macs as well:

450Mhz G4 Cube
1.5GB ram
80gig seagate hard drive
GeForce 2MX 400
Apple Pro Speakers

Newest addition:
12" Aluminium Powerbook G4 867Mhz
640MB ram
30GB disk
GeForce 4MX

GF has a 1Gh 17inch iMac, and I have a 400Mhz G3 iMac as well.

Also, on the above comments, all multithreaded OS X apps take advantage of both processors, as the OS will dole out tasks to both. Also the G5 seems to scale with much more efficiency with dual processors than a dual P4 or an athlon, reaching almost 100% performance increase w/ the second processor. Definatly a nice machine.

 

[chuyler1]

I've got a dual 867MHz G4 at work, 256MB ram. Its ok, but 10.3 is kinda sluggish on it. The dual processors do nothing for my work (software engineer) because gnu gcc, which Apple's Project Builder is based on, is not optimized for dual processors. If you pop up the cpu monitor you can watch the work load bounce from one processor to the other back and forth.

 

[Micah]

And are northwood's faster then Xeon's? Cause the g5 beat Xeon's making all other factors aside from processor as similar as possible.

Check the specs of the Xeon's they used. Did they support Hyperthreading? I doubt it. Secondly, look at the price of the machine as a whole. How much does that new Dual G5 cost? If you really want to compare apples to apples, then break it down to the only two things that matter in the end.

Cost and Performance.

 

[stepson]

I've got a dual 867MHz G4 at work, 256MB ram. Its ok, but 10.3 is kinda sluggish on it. The dual processors do nothing for my work (software engineer) because gnu gcc, which Apple's Project Builder is based on, is not optimized for dual processors. If you pop up the cpu monitor you can watch the work load bounce from one processor to the other back and forth.

Using makefiles? If so, run make -j 2 to run 2 threads in parallel ... that should use both processors....

 

[Kooldino]

I've got tons of PC crap. All custom built systems by me, All athlon 1.1GHz or faster. Some Radeons, Geforces, etc. One box made out of Legos, good networking equip, win2k, XP, Mandrake 9. blah blah blah.

 

[Micah]

that legobox rules, I was fixated on it.

 

[bud_d]

Check the specs of the Xeon's they used. Did they support Hyperthreading? I doubt it. Secondly, look at the price of the machine as a whole. How much does that new Dual G5 cost? If you really want to compare apples to apples, then break it down to the only two things that matter in the end.

Cost and Performance.

The Xeons they used was a dual 3.06ghz, which at the time were the fastest chips on the market. A week of so after this was done they released the newest 3.2ghz chips. If I remember right Hyperthreading on the test they were running decreased performance so it was left off. They used a Dell system that was custom configured on Dell's site with as similar specs as possible and it was priced around $4000, yes $1000 more then the dual G5 was.

and yes I know you can build your own system for cheaper, but you wanted to compare Apples to Apples rgiht? Did i miss anything?

 

[chuyler1]

The bench marks for both the G5 and Xeon are skewed. For example, they don't use a FPU but instead execute more instructions to perform the same task. They might run at a faster speed, but they don't run real world applications any faster.

 

[chuyler1]

Using makefiles? If so, run make -j 2 to run 2 threads in parallel ... that should use both processors....

Can that be done with gnumake?

It takes about 20 minutes to build the product...that is considered pretty good seeing as our HP-UX machine takes 6 hours (we're supposed to be getting a new machine though).

 

[stepson]

definatly. gmake is what i always use ... s/b fine, but some apps won't build with it (tries to build something before something else is done for example). worth a shot tho.

 

[Kooldino]

The Xeons they used was a dual 3.06ghz, which at the time were the fastest chips on the market. A week of so after this was done they released the newest 3.2ghz chips. If I remember right Hyperthreading on the test they were running decreased performance so it was left off. They used a Dell system that was custom configured on Dell's site with as similar specs as possible and it was priced around $4000, yes $1000 more then the dual G5 was.

and yes I know you can build your own system for cheaper, but you wanted to compare Apples to Apples rgiht? Did i miss anything?

Is this in reference to the Apple PC being claimed the world's fastest? If so, there's tons of links that show that it's far from it, and how the benchmarks were compiled slanted to Apple, etc etc.

 

[loj68]

Mandrake 9.1 Linux box:

Shuttle AK32 Motherboard

AMD 1.2 gig processor

512 meg RAM

Western digital 80gig 7200rpm HD

Toshiba DVD/CDRW

NVidia GEForce 2 Video card

Soundblaster Live

Sony 21" Monitor

Regular old beige case

Laptop (for work)

IBM Thinkpad T40

Windows 2000

Pentium 1.5 gig processor

512k RAM

Mobile ATI Radeon Video Card (rocks for a laptop!)

40 gig HD

All the other stuff that comes on a T40

 

[NRRfrogmanP5]

screw all u guys ..i bet none of urs has a wing now does it ! hehe