Apple-Intel Developer Macs: "It's fast"

[Carlo]

an AppleInsider article reports on the impressive speed of the Apple-Intel Developer Macs:
Speed of Apple Intel dev systems impress developers
By AppleInsider Staff
Published: 12:45 PM EST
The speed of Mac OS X running on Intel hardware is impressing some developers who've been privy to one of Apple's first Intel-based developer transition systems.

The systems started shipping to Mac OS X developers three weeks ago, each equipped with a 3.6 GHz Intel Pentium 4 processor with 2 MB L2 Cache, 800MHz front-side bus, 1GB of 533MHz DDR2 Dual Channel SDRAM, and an Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 900.

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[jps444]

interesting. so i'm kinda lost how does that fare with the current g5 technology?

[Lakisalayaw1970]

"...boots up OS X faster than any Powermac dual G5..."

"...Rosetta seamless and not at all like running Classic..."

"...only 60 to 75% speed of non-native aps in Rosetta..."

The last one is a doozy. But once the universal binary code is written it will back to 100%.

The frontside on the intel machine is 800MHz, with 1GB of ram....

Strange that it is faster than a Powermac dual G5 with 1.35 GHz frontside bus.