[mythtv-users] Mac Mini Frontend - HDTV Capable?

[Mark Knecht]

On 4/27/05, Art Morales <bioart at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/27/05, Jeff Simpson <llcooljeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Without hardware acceleration, a
> > 3ghz PC can do it, and the 1.4ghz mac can't. End of discussion.
> >
> 
> I think the problem is that by definition, the two processor
> architectures are not comparable (on Speed alone).   To say that a 1.4
> ghz G5 is the same speed that a 1.4 ghz P4 is at best naive.  I'm not
> a mac evangelist, but Macs have been plenty fast for a very long time
> with slower actual clockspeeds than wintel.  We'll just have to wait
> and see till someone takes the time to optimize them.
> 
> Art

True, but  the 1.5GHz Intel Centrino's are every bit as fast in most
cases as 3GHz P4's and do compare more closely to the 1.5GHz G5's.
Intel learned a bit from IBM on that one.

- Mark