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Wednesday, January 28, 2004

Carmack weighs in on PC vs. Mac debate: The PC is still faster

UPDATED: Apparently, this post was from some time ago and is not current. My bad.

Programming guru and id Software co-founder updated his .plan file this week with interesting comments on the Mac vs. PC debate. "[Quake] 3 can be run without 3D output to test just the identical compiled code. Wintel is still faster, although somewhat less so ... 'Sucks' is a subjective description that can be dismissed as opinion. Note that I have NEVER said that the [Mac] hardware sucks, or the user interface sucks, just that the mac OPERATING SYSTEM sucks. 'Faster', when qualified with testing conditions, is objective, and all the wishing in the world doesn't change it. Objectivity and quantification are the paths to improvement. I will be very happy if Apple can produce a desktop system that is faster than anything else you can get. I respect good engineering from any source. Altivec should be better than the PIII extensions (trinary ops -- yeah!). The upcoming system architectures look good. They have a shot at it, but they won't make it if they complacently think 'oh, we are already faster than any pc system.'"

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