about the real world performance of the beast. It is reportedly from Austin Meyer, one of the x-plane developper. I don't have the original URL but here is the transcript.
"X-PLANE STATE OF THE UNION:
I tried out X-Plane on a G-5 in California last week and it ran about
100% faster than on the top G-4.
And this is before I have even pulled out the stops on multi-processing
and altivec.
So there will be more speed yet to come on the G-5.
(X-Plane will soon be running on nitro with dual-threads for
multi-processors)
If you can afford a G5 (and you should, it is very affordable for a new
Mac) GET ONE.
The engineering and construction make my new Vette look like a piece of
cheap plastic.
All aluminum.
The design is so sleek it is even prettier INSIDE than OUTSIDE, and the
outside is obviously tops.
The materials and workmanship far exceed any car I have ever driven and
any airplane I have ever flown.
The aluminum interior is divided into different cooling zones with
perfect packaging everywhere.
This machine is the first truly elegant, well-engineered PC that has
ever been made... never mind the fastest.
(Some people say it is not the fastest, but they are grasping at straws
based on whatever statistics they can find... but I have run X-Plane on
it and I have seen that for X-Plane, it is the fastest. 120 fps on a
NON-OPTIMIZED copy of X-Plane. Optimizing hops us up 25% from that. How
many Windows users can get 150 fps on X-Plane? (no rendering options, 7
miles vis) Try it. You won't. The G-5 does. I speak from experience
with X-Plane, not newsgroup-arguing on slanted iterpretations of
statistics, and for X-Plane, this is obviously what matters: FPS, not
who can try to turn statisitcs around to to sound like they agree with
their prejudice)."
Looks pretty good it seems.
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