Re: New Intel Macs

Dear Fons

Thank you for this info, I am looking forward to your first benchmarks. (Since my Titanium 550 MHz is already pretty old, I am thinking to buy a MacBook Pro, maybe in Summer :-)))

Best regards
Christian

Fons Rademakers wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> all speeds scale up (compiling and running). In the coming week(s) I
> expect to get an iMac Duo (as trade in for our obsolete P4 based dev
> machines). Then I am also allowed to give benchmarks (the dev hardware
> was not completely optimized and we are not allowed to give the
> performance numbers). Just order you MacBook Pro ;-)
>
> -- Fons
>
>
>
> cstrato wrote:
>

>> Dear Fons
>>
>> Your comment is interesting.
>>
>> Do you mean the compilation speed (which is really awful on current
>> Macs) or the speed of the compiled or interpreted (CINT) applications?
>> Is it possible to give the rootmarks for PPC vs Intel Macs?
>>
>> Thank you
>> Christian
>>
>> Fons Rademakers wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>  ROOT has been running since last June on the Intel Macs (we have two 
>>> dev platforms here). So just get one and enjoy the speed. I did :-)
>>>
>>> Cheers, Fons.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Leah Welty-Rieger wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Everyone-
>>>>
>>>> This might be a stupid question, but I was wondering if there would 
>>>> be any difference in running ROOT on the new Intel Macs that were 
>>>> recently released?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Leah
>>>>
>>>
>>