Thats how its always gonna be, one company will always be outstepping the other until the other comes out with something better. Same with Intel and AMD. Same with ATI and NVidia. And When/If the Japanese eventually decide to seriously design/make a cpu for the desktop.... well thats when all of em gotta start sweatin.madbunny wrote:when macs introduce a new design, I've noticed that they are usually way above current pc standards in terms of performance (we are talking the top of the line stuff here like the dual cpu G5), this gap never really seems to last very long, and eventually pc's will outstrip them till the next time something is released and the whole thing starts over.
incidentally, for technicalites, Macs are actually superior in technology, but the actuall speed of their processors are lower, so their processor at the same exact speed as an x86 CPU would be much much faster. It has to do with the design. The X86 standards currently (such as PCI, among other stuff) is actually plagued with bottlenecks and is far from optimized. Too many different standards that it has to confirm to. If everyone settled on a single standard instead of the various diferent roads Intel and AMD among others are taking, we'd have much more streamlined systems optimized for 1 specific standard. I beleive this is one reason Mac systems are overall more stable and optimized than the x86 platforms.