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Originally posted by mad_onion
um actually G5s are not faster really apple made those figures up and now even agree that an equvilant P4 will give the same power. thats why the whole apple range is being changed to use intel x86 architecture. also they have lower power consumption and are smaller (pentium M)
actually this is going to be really big for the pc market i cant believe you havent heard about it already. you will be able to buy a mac and install windows on it. and with a lot more jiggery poxery you will be able to do it the other way round too buy a dell or something and install mac osx on it.

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Yes, you could Install OSX if you circumvent the ID Chip on the Motherboard which i'm sure people will manage.  When you compare a P4 or Athlon64 on XP to a G5 on OSX you aren't getting a fair comparison.  An Athlon64 2800+ can keep up with a 2.5GHz G5 when running under an Optimised Linux Kernel but when you compare them using Windows XP & OSX you have to take into account the added power needed to run the XP system to a similar sped standard.

The Pentium M is a much better CPU than the P4 in my opinion.  Netburst was a mistake and Intel are finally beginning to realise it.  I'd love to see a comparison between a Pentium D 840 Mac & a Dual 2.7GHz G5 Mac, as only that could really tell the difference, apart from the rewritten code to optimise the Intel system.