How is this Mac Book beating this IBM ThinkPad?

[Chadder007]

Originally posted by: ribbon13
Perhaps a chipset bottleneck of some kind?

lol, your doing 3DMark (gaming) benchmark and comparing a FireGL card to a gaming Radeon..

Where are the SPECapc benches?

Thats what I was thinking..... FireGL's are optimized to run professional 3d software, not Games.

 

[DavidoFoo]

Originally posted by: Chadder007

Originally posted by: ribbon13
Perhaps a chipset bottleneck of some kind?

lol, your doing 3DMark (gaming) benchmark and comparing a FireGL card to a gaming Radeon..

Where are the SPECapc benches?

Thats what I was thinking..... FireGL's are optimized to run professional 3d software, not Games.

exactly. all this bullcrap about OS's and whatnot is nonsense.

 

[WackyDan]

Originally posted by: deathkoba

Originally posted by: bob4432

Originally posted by: Oyeve

Originally posted by: bob4432

Originally posted by: deathkoba
Macintosh tends to be more optimized especially for hardware intensive applications and benchmarks are no different. The PC hardware was probably underclocked a bit as they tend to crash easily. You're just seeing one of the many reasons why Mac hardware (and software) is better built.

were you saying that when they were using the powepcs? it is easy to build software when you know all the variables, just like console gaming - easy to build a 360 because they are pretty much standardized vs thousands if not more pc configs...

PowerPC is not really a factor, the OS is. In Tiger, the drivers are already there for thousands of HW and SW devices. You dont see it unless you have the SW and/or HW. Mac has done a phenominal job in their OS. Especially in 10.4 and higher. 95% of all Mac os 10.4.x problems are associated with the user ID. It is RARELY the OS or SW. Unlike in Windows were anything can get corrupt, its nearly imposible to hose 10.4.x unless its intentional.

what i am saying is that when apple started to use the intel cpus, the they beat their powerpc speeds, but when they were using the powerpc they claimed it superior to intel, which in fact it was not and that was clearly illustrated by apple themselves

and to say pc hardware is underclocked is just an ignorant statement. the benchmark was over so the pc throttled back down to it power saving speed.

Getting too technical there. Macs are simply better built. That's all there is to it. Done.

Funny, as The ThinkPads are rated as best in reliability in the industry. It is the video card offering most of the difference here. They are quite different machines from that perspective. The THinkPad would actually be considered the more professionally equipped system due to the fact the inclusion of the engineering grade open GL video card.

 

[JackBurton]

Let me put it to you this way, I have a T60 and I'm not big on it. I'd much rather have my HP nc6400 back or just get a MacBook Pro.

 

[Tegeril]

Originally posted by: deathkoba

Originally posted by: bob4432

Originally posted by: Oyeve

Originally posted by: bob4432

Originally posted by: deathkoba
Macintosh tends to be more optimized especially for hardware intensive applications and benchmarks are no different. The PC hardware was probably underclocked a bit as they tend to crash easily. You're just seeing one of the many reasons why Mac hardware (and software) is better built.

were you saying that when they were using the powepcs? it is easy to build software when you know all the variables, just like console gaming - easy to build a 360 because they are pretty much standardized vs thousands if not more pc configs...

PowerPC is not really a factor, the OS is. In Tiger, the drivers are already there for thousands of HW and SW devices. You dont see it unless you have the SW and/or HW. Mac has done a phenominal job in their OS. Especially in 10.4 and higher. 95% of all Mac os 10.4.x problems are associated with the user ID. It is RARELY the OS or SW. Unlike in Windows were anything can get corrupt, its nearly imposible to hose 10.4.x unless its intentional.

what i am saying is that when apple started to use the intel cpus, the they beat their powerpc speeds, but when they were using the powerpc they claimed it superior to intel, which in fact it was not and that was clearly illustrated by apple themselves

and to say pc hardware is underclocked is just an ignorant statement. the benchmark was over so the pc throttled back down to it power saving speed.

Getting too technical there. Macs are simply better built. That's all there is to it. Done.

Mannnn, talk about being a zealot.

 

[bob4432]

Originally posted by: Tegeril

Originally posted by: deathkoba

Originally posted by: bob4432

Originally posted by: Oyeve

Originally posted by: bob4432

Originally posted by: deathkoba
Macintosh tends to be more optimized especially for hardware intensive applications and benchmarks are no different. The PC hardware was probably underclocked a bit as they tend to crash easily. You're just seeing one of the many reasons why Mac hardware (and software) is better built.

were you saying that when they were using the powepcs? it is easy to build software when you know all the variables, just like console gaming - easy to build a 360 because they are pretty much standardized vs thousands if not more pc configs...

PowerPC is not really a factor, the OS is. In Tiger, the drivers are already there for thousands of HW and SW devices. You dont see it unless you have the SW and/or HW. Mac has done a phenominal job in their OS. Especially in 10.4 and higher. 95% of all Mac os 10.4.x problems are associated with the user ID. It is RARELY the OS or SW. Unlike in Windows were anything can get corrupt, its nearly imposible to hose 10.4.x unless its intentional.

what i am saying is that when apple started to use the intel cpus, the they beat their powerpc speeds, but when they were using the powerpc they claimed it superior to intel, which in fact it was not and that was clearly illustrated by apple themselves

and to say pc hardware is underclocked is just an ignorant statement. the benchmark was over so the pc throttled back down to it power saving speed.

Getting too technical there. Macs are simply better built. That's all there is to it. Done.

Mannnn, talk about being a zealot.

that is what i thought too. getting to technical for here, i don't understand anything except the cute little apple logo, i am sheeple and will love whatever apple makes no matter if it is inferior or superior....talk about robot thinking :thumbsdown: