Re: Who is kidding who.
- From: "-hh" <recscuba_google@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 31 Aug 2006 07:53:13 -0700
zara wrote:
"Tim Murray" wrote:
Sheesh, this comparison you picked is just silly. Another zara swing and a
miss.
For a Thousand bucks less - just how "slow" would you consider the Dell??
Not much slower I'll bet.
Actually, its a hell of a lot slower, since the "Pentium D 980" CPU
that Zara listed doesn't even exist.
Doing Zara's research for him, Dell sells the "930" on the XPS-200.
Dell has never submitted benchmarks for the 930 to Spec.org (Apple
hasn't published either) but spec.org does have other company's
benchmarks for a 3GHz 930 listed. Here's the range:
SPECint_rate_base2000 = 33.9 - 34.1 ... call it roughly 34
SPECfp_rate_base2000 = 33.8 - 34.1 ... call it roughly 34
Apple's advertised benchmark for the 3 GHz Mac Pro are:
SPECint_rate_base2000 = 115.3
SPECfp_rate_base2000 = 76.4
Reducing these simplistically by 12% to model the 2.66GHz in Zara's
comparison, would result in:
SPECint_rate_base2000 = 101
SPECfp_rate_base2000 = 67
Averaging the two SPEC's together to make for a simple "single number"
comparison, the comparison is 34 vs 84, which means that from a
'benchmarky' perspective, the Mac Pro that Zara selected is 250% the
speed of the XPS-200 Dell that Zara selected.
Which says that you could buy two XPS-200's, but still be slower than
the Mac Pro by a healthy margin, despite paying more (2 x $1700 =
$3400).
FWIW, for a more "entry level" machine at this XPS-200's price point,
the benchmarks for the 20" iMac are 32.6 and 27.1 (which is within ~10%
of the XPS-200), and the 20" iMac also costs roughly $1700.
Plus for those that actually believe the nonsense that USB2 is "faster"
than Firewire, it has USB2 ports :-)
-hh
PS: this will likely be the third post in this thread that Zara will
lack the courage to materially respond to. Shame, shame.
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