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I dont really care about the stupid behaviour of apple, I care about the numbers.
Who cares about numbers? I wouldn't trust any benchmark, no matter whether it's graphics cards, processors or entire machines.
Besides, what's the point benchmarking a Mac against a PC? It's totally different architectures with totally different OSes. Show me just three people who will choose the OS they use based on benchmark numbers. Ok, it may be interesting to see whether both are about equal or Apple way behind. That's all. No Apple fan will go Windows because of benchmark numbers. Nor vice versa.
I've got a Dual G5 here, and it works well and is more than fast enough and that's all I'm interested in. Just the AppleCare "expert" support sucks like hell. No experts there, just monkeys trained to talk away existing problems.
As for Dual G5 in Pegasos, what exactly would you want to do with this? It would most certainly be more expensive than a G3 machine and there's very little software out there that can make use of that speed. Heck, there is not even a single program out there supporting Altivec, let alone specially modified programs/MorphOS that could exploit this processor. I doubt GCC 2.95 has or will get any G5-related optimisations. I'd rather go with a cheaper machine that's fully sufficient for most software out there - for now.
Until there are firm deals with authors of software that would make G5-optimised software, I doubt a G5 will make much sense in Pegasos other than for the children ("I've got a better processor than you").
Don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that I don't want to see a G5 Pegasos. But I'm already having a really hard time trying to push the processor load of my Dual G5 Mac >10%. For current Amiga apps, I consider it overkill.
Just the processor alone isn't enough also. I've been working with SoundFX for quite some time on my Amiga. I'm currently working with the trial version of Bias Peak 4 on my Mac. It's a real pleasure to deal with sound files that are several GBytes in size where I was pretty much annoyed in SFX with 700 MByte files already. Faster processor alone won't help much, Peak simply has smarter data structures (I suppose they use some kind of piece table vs. SFX probably using a single chunk of memory although I haven't used the latter for some time and do not exactly recall its behaviour in certain situations).
Ideally, that's why Genesi should do it like Apple and develop their own apps. Now I'm not sure whether it's smart that Apple themselves are competing with some software companies for their own platform. For the Pegasos, it would be my preferred solution, because I don't see much happening here otherwise in terms of smart and powerful software. I already told some Genesi employees several times, but noone's listening. Giving machines to developers is a Very Good Thing, but it's not a replacement for Genesi-internally led projects that are not cancelled at the author's whims and undergo some quality assurance. Probably all asleep. Goodnight.
