RE: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] reading through Apple's marketing speak...

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Ross, Matt wrote:

> > > onboard dual monitor support,
> > 
> > Yes, but I'm not sure where these cards "rate" in the PC scheme of
> > things.  I'd never heard of a Radeon 9000 Pro before.
> 
> Radeon is one of the better brands, I've not heard of their 9000 Pro model,
> but OEM's are treating it as if it were Gforce4's equal.

OK, the top-line card they offer is a NVIDIA GeForce4 Ti with 128 MB 
of DDR SDRAM.  The ATI Radeon 9000 Pro has 64 MB of DDR SDRAM, while 
the NVIDIA GeForce4 MX card on the low end model has only 256 times 
as much RAM as the first Mac (i.e., 32 MB).
 
> > > In short, I think they're better than comparable PC's.
> > 
> > OK, so they put this up against a Dell Dimension 8200 system, and I 
> > can see that there's some potential here, but the high-end system
> > would get tromped by a comparable dual Athlon system (I believe).  
> > Still, a much better deal than their previous offerings, and Mac OS 
> > X is certainly  worth something in addition.
> 
> Anybody know how G4's are heat-wise?

Yes, that would be a relative advantage for the G4 over the Athlon.  
I believe a PowerBook uses exactly the same G4 CPU as a desktop
model does.

On the other hand, the new PowerMac case is designed to dissipate a
*lot* of heat, so either the new dual processor machines or their 
planned successors are probably not running that cool.  (Or maybe 
it's the contribution from the video card; I saw high-end cases 
recently that would directly fan and vent your video card...)

jking


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