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86 Mac Plus Vs. 07 AMD DualCore. You Won't Believe Who Wins
Hehe. Kinda interesting, though, from an efficiency perspective and a look at bloatware. They loaded up Word and Excel on both computers and did all sorts of different benchmark tasks. Because of all the new software running on the AMD 4800+, it really didn't do much better than a Mac Plus. In fact, the Mac Plus beat the AMD on several tests.
Their conclusion was that in the past decade, computers (or is it Windows and Office) have brought us zero increase in productivity.
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Wow, that is surprising. I shouldn't be so shocked because I have a 450MHz cube running office and photoshop and I was surprised to see how perky it was at running both. Mind you I wasn't trying to computer the mass of the sun in excel or rendor anything indepth in PS but doing what I normally do, work with images for the web and the G4 cube held its own.
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I love that perspective of things.
OTOH, I was running System 7 on a Mac SE with 2.5MB RAM, and that was a PAIN.
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Now a days its all abut ram. and they shortchanged the AMD machine.
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Originally Posted by Dakarʒ
Now a days its all abut ram. and they shortchanged the AMD machine.
Not really most consumer level machines found at best buy or dell have a gig or less. Heck, windows out of the box will only see 2 gig or is it 3 I forget.
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Yeah, but they maxed out the Mac Plus.
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a 32-bit OS will see 4GB...
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Amusing. It's pretty true, actually: the computing experience hasn't changed for the end user, other than being a little lighter, a little more colorful, and a lot more confusing. It's sad from a developer's standpoint to realize that in more than twenty years, nothing's changed. Word is still Word, Excel is still Excel, and computers take even longer to boot than they used to.
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
86 Mac Plus Vs. 07 AMD DualCore. You Won't Believe Who Wins
Hehe. Kinda interesting, though, from an efficiency perspective and a look at bloatware. They loaded up Word and Excel on both computers and did all sorts of different benchmark tasks. Because of all the new software running on the AMD 4800+, it really didn't do much better than a Mac Plus. In fact, the Mac Plus beat the AMD on several tests.
Their conclusion was that in the past decade, computers (or is it Windows and Office) have brought us zero increase in productivity.
I know we have really powerful processors these days, but I kinda wonder how 'fast' OS9 would feel if we could somehow use today's hardware on them. EVERYTHING is slower in OSX. Games, visualizations, computations... I stayed away from OSX for a very long time because of the performance hit. I used to run OS9 on a dual 1.42ghz G4, and MAN WAS THAT FAST.
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Betcha the AMD running a Mac emulator running the Mac OS (system 6?) would kick the Mac Plus's ass!
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Things like launch and boot times are the things that tick me off the most. I have a couple Mac Pluses in my basement and whenever I occasion to boot them up for nostalgia I'm constantly amazed at how it soundly trounces my PowerBook in terms of boot speed. A .2 -> .1 difference in typing lag over 21 years? No big deal, since these kinds of tasks take place at human speeds. But having a computer boot 52 seconds SLOWER in 21 years? That's ridiculous in my opinion.
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Originally Posted by slpdLoad
Things like launch and boot times are the things that tick me off the most.
I hear ya. I had a laptop from work and it literally took 10 minutes to boot up, where as my mac pro seems to boot up in record time.
Windows is really bad at this, where as OSX (and class os be it OS 9 or 8, system 7 etc) seems to be very quick
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Fastest launch I ever saw was a Mac II with an '030 card running System 6. It had 32 megs of ram because 32 was the most ram that anyone would ever need, ever. It would boot from cold dead off and launch Excel in less than 15 seconds. With the 24 bit graphics card and 21" monitor, it cost 15,000 American dollars...
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Originally Posted by mac128k-1984
where as OSX (and class os be it OS 9 or 8, system 7 etc) seems to be very quick
The Intel transition made a huge difference in this respect. It's somewhere near reasonable now as long as you keep your login items to a minimum.
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Originally Posted by mac128k-1984
I hear ya. I had a laptop from work and it literally took 10 minutes to boot up, where as my mac pro seems to boot up in record time.
Windows is really bad at this, where as OSX (and class os be it OS 9 or 8, system 7 etc) seems to be very quick
True. Every windows machine I've used does this thing that's so freaking annoying: It loads the desktop, but you can't actually USE the desktop for another 10-30 seconds, because it's still loading crap. It just likes teaasing you, that you're almost there.
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Originally Posted by ShivaReborn
True. Every windows machine I've used does this thing that's so freaking annoying: It loads the desktop, but you can't actually USE the desktop for another 10-30 seconds, because it's still loading crap. It just likes teaasing you, that you're almost there.
My PowerBook does the same thing while I wait for it to load the menubar items and Quicksilver.
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Originally Posted by Sherman Homan
Fastest launch I ever saw was a Mac II with an '030 card running System 6. It had 32 megs of ram because 32 was the most ram that anyone would ever need, ever. It would boot from cold dead off and launch Excel in less than 15 seconds. With the 24 bit graphics card and 21" monitor, it cost 15,000 American dollars...
I remember booting a Performa 575 running System 7.5.5 from a RAM disk. That was freaking cool.
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If someone could write some support libraries and actually hack System 7.1 onto a G5... I wonder how fast it would run?
Dark Castle at 2309872937507935 fps.
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It would be fun to draw a comparison like that aimed to game systems.
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I often wonder how much more I'd play some games if they weren't LOAD choose mode LOAD play LOAD results LOAD back to menu
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If you ask me, I think games were a lot more entertaining and inventive from the 80s and up through the mid 90s. Because of the limitations, the source code was often written a lot cleaner, faster, and better. The games also had to be ingenious to keep people interested in them given the limited amount of resources available for the game itself.
The original Ultimas (1-5), Bard's Tale and Dragonwars, Dark Castle, Pirates!; even little games like Bolo and Spindoctor were great.
Anyone remember Super Maze Wars? I saw the demo way-back-when my Dad got to go to Macworld for his company in like 92 or 93. There was a huge line of people waiting for their chance to play this game on an AppleTalk network of 6 LCs.
People were going NUTS over seeing another ship in the maze that was another person on a different computer.
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Originally Posted by ShivaReborn
I used to run OS9 on a dual 1.42ghz G4...
How? The FireWire 800 line (Dual 1.42 included) are incapable of booting into OS 9.
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Originally Posted by Lateralus
How? The FireWire 800 line (Dual 1.42 included) are incapable of booting into OS 9.
Maybe it was an upgraded processor?
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Originally Posted by Dakarʒ
I often wonder how much more I'd play some games if they weren't LOAD choose mode LOAD play LOAD results LOAD back to menu
What a pain. I have been playing PGA tour mode of Tiger Woods 07 for months now, and it's the same stupid 3 splash screens while loading, then a menu to choose PGA mode, then the next set of menus insists on highlighting each choice individually and blocks me from doing anything, then click calendar, then click the event. Then load level. Since the events all go in order why can't I have a shortcut to just resume my last played character's newest tournament?
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Originally Posted by TheoCryst
Amusing. It's pretty true, actually: the computing experience hasn't changed for the end user, other than being a little lighter, a little more colorful, and a lot more confusing. It's sad from a developer's standpoint to realize that in more than twenty years, nothing's changed. Word is still Word, Excel is still Excel, and computers take even longer to boot than they used to.
I hope that is sarcasm. I hope every comment in favor of the Mac Plus is sarcasm.
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