![]() A Mac is a comprised of a heck of a lot more than just a PPC Processor. They must be using some sort of proprietary Apple ROM technology to allow it to run the Mac OS. I'm interested to see if Apple will try to sue them. (Mind you with Quartz Extreme, a lot of it is offloaded to the video card) the site didn't mention anything about offloading the graphics to the PC's video card. All of these things take processing power, and the Mac has a LOT more of them than Windows has. Transparencies, shadows, smooth animations, magnifications, live updating of data changes across multiple applications. their UI is positively simple compared to OS X's. That is one more reason why Mac's have a much easier time running Windows through an emulator. Basically, if you installed OS X on this version of PearPC, you'd run your mouse over the dock and it would take a significant number of seconds for the magnification affect to draw itself. The Harddrive and CDrom access emulation speeds were not nearly this bad though. ![]() ![]() ![]() The GameCube's processor (Gekko) has 50 additional instructions compared to the. They don't list any benchmarks on the site, but they do mention that it is about 500 times slower by Raw CPU cycle speed. The GameCube's processor is based upon the PowerPC 750CXe, which was used in the last iMac G3s and several iBook G3s. ![]()
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