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To: Dan Fleuris who wrote (34137)7/23/2002 11:31:16 AM
From: dfarrand  Read Replies (2) of 213182
 
I think the issue of Apple moving to OSX should be viewed as being all about performance and marketing and only secondarily about windows compatibilty.

Having x86 underneath would certainly make it easier to achive windows compatibility and that would be an issue with a lot of folks. I know I've tallked to several who would buy a Mac if the compatibility story were better.

However, all my current customers are windows based and we do all of our development on OS X. The growing availability of Open source stiff like Postgres, Apache, Jboss, Jetty on OS X makes windows compatibility less and less important from my point of view.

Even from a performance point of view, we find xServe to be very fast. The server configuration we specify can be priced at Apple and Dell and they both come out about the same at $4k and the xServe is even slightly cheaper - and that is using Linux on the Dell. If you specify W2000 server on the Dell is significantly more expensive than the xServe.

For non altvec stuff, x86 is faster, but there have also been a lot of other bottle necks on the Mac hardware - primarily memory access and I/O - that cause Mac's to be slower - Those are being addressed and we are seeing the first fruits in the improved memory and IO in xServe.
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