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It is a professional
64 bit Dream machine with supersonic speed! It is beautiful. It is about the
ultimate user friendliness. It is about a lifestyle. It is a class apart. You
guessed it - I am parroting Apple’s marketing.
For some reason, the performance of Apple’s gorgeous machines has been wrapped
in a shroud of mystery. Yes, you could find a benchmark here and there, with one
benchmark showing that the PowerMac is just a mediocre PC while another shows it
off as a supercomputer, the unchallenged king of the
personal computer world.
The 64 bit Apple Machines were running OS X
Server 10.3 (Panther) and OS X Server 10.4.1 (Tiger), while our x86
machines were also running a 64 bit server version of a popular Open Source
Operating Unix system: SUSE Linux SLES 9 (kernel 2.6.5). We also included an
older Xeon 3.06 GHz ( Galatin, 1 MB L3) running SUSE SLES 8 (kernel 2.4.19) just
for reference purposes. Some of the workstation tests were done on Windows XP
SP2.
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