Re: SOT: OSs

"Zomoniac" <the_proper_one@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On 2007-05-02 11:03:59 +0100, Jaimie Vandenbergh
<jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

On Wed, 2 May 2007 09:49:32 +0100, Zomoniac
<the_proper_one@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rewrite all that again for someone who doesn't code and thinks that
architecture is the art of making pretty buildings :)

a) Intel Core series chips are clever and fucking fast, and for a
while were the best price/performance you could get - the first time
Intel has been quicker than AMD for a decade or so. AMD dropped their
prices and brought out faster chips, so they're neck and neck at the
moment. Latest test I saw had the 5GHz AMDx2 being a couple of percent
quicker in gaming than the 3GHz Core2.

b) Running powerPC code on an Intel Mac is way slower than running
Intel code because it has to be translated on the fly (by an OS
service called Rosetta) from IBM to Intel. You can tell what a running
app is in Activity Monitor, there's a "Kind" column, or Get Info on
the app directly. "Universal" means it has both PPC and Intel
executables and the machine picks the right one. A 2GHz core2 Mac runs
PPC code about the same speed as a dual PPC 1.5GHz, kinda roughly.

I'm told Rosetta-hosted programs are crashier than Intel native ones,
but the only ones I use regularly are Office 2004, which is crashy all
by itself anyway so I don't know.

Oh - ignore my earlier post about memory, I hadn't really noticed that
you were talking app crashes rather than system crashes. I'd recommend
an archive-and-install reinstall, or install a fresh system on an
external drive and boot off that to see if you get the same crap.
(That facility alone just persuaded a friend of mine to switch to
Mac!)

Cheers - Jaimie --
Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

Most of my apps, except MS and Adobe, are Intel. Why is Safari, which has
a single window minimised, using 600MB of my real memory??


After a day's hiatus, I return to find that a thread about OSs has dominated
the group. Question is, should I go through it all?

Shak

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