mini CAD Box - the new Mac mini (6.5 inches square and 2 inches tall)
can handle a variety of modest CAD tasks quite well, Anthony Frausto-Robledo, Architosh,
january 14, 2005
Macworld 2005
- a report from the recent gathering on what's new and noteworthy in the
Macintosh AEC- and CAD-related industry, including the release of the new
low-priced Mac Mini, and updates on form*Z, VectorWorks and SketchUp and
Microspot, Lachmi Khemlani, AECbytes Newsletter, January 12, 2005
Apple G5: Smokes Intel Competition - Nemetschek North America published test scores demonstrating that in CAD and 3D performance the Macintosh G5 computer easily surpassed other processors including the G4 and the Intel Xeon, Anthony Frausto-Robledo, Architosh, January 26, 2004
64-Bit Takes Off - in a comparison of an Athlon 64 FX-51, a 2GHz dual Opteron, a 3.2GHz Pentium 4 and the Apple PowerMac G5, the FX-51 excelled at AutoCAD, where it was about 44 percent faster than the P4 unit, Tom Mainelli, PC World, November 2003
The Official G5 Interview - an Apple exec addresses the recent controversy of his company's pronouncement that its new Apple dual-processor G5 is faster than Intel-based PCs in CAD/CAM benchmarks, IT-Enquirer, July 23, 2003
Apple G5 Benchmarked for CFD Analysis - using the jet noise prediction tool, Jet3D, Apple's new 64-bit processor was tested against the older Apple G4 and an Intel Pentium 4 system; its impressive performance showed it could hold its own in computational intensive applications, CFD Review, July 9, 2003
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