Jobs: New Mac Mini will be 3x faster with Intel Chips.

[edDV]

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/index.php?p=2634
Check out the video
Duo model is 5x faster.

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/02/28/intel-mac-mini-lacks-dedicated-graphics-hardware/



http://www.apple.com/macmini/

[vitualis]

Do we really believe Job's hype?

Apple specs have always been nothing but fodder for fanboys.

That being said, Intel based Mac mini's probably do have significantly more performance than the woefully underperforming G4 minis. However, with integrated graphics and much OSX software still running on emulation/translation through Rosetta, I somewhat suspect that the end user performance gains are probably going to be modest at most.

Now, if you could install Window XP on a Mac mini it would make a FANTASTIC cheap and reasonably well performing little PC.

Regards.

[hexxisoft]

This is just like their claim that the G5 is the world's fastest computer.

[SingSing]

Steve Job's job is to hype whatever he can. PowerPc is not particularly fast, but not really at 1/3 of Pentium.

Look deeper, we might see he is gross over the performance difference between PowerPC on old MAC OS ( based on PASCAL ) vs Intel on OS-X ( BSD unix clone ).

[offline]

It may look pretty.. but fast... no.

[guns1inger]

Our local computer mag, APC, in it's round up last month of the top 300 events in computing had this to say about Intel based Macs

It's just like a Mac, only fast!

Once Vista ships and can be run on the new Macs, Apple might get above the 4% of the market they barely manage to hold now. But probably not.