Kynes said:
Bingo! Cell is a great processor to do some tasks, but not the ones people do everyday with their computers. Is much more oriented to number crunching, not multitasking. |
The PS3 Cell is most excellent for multi-tasking, running different tasks on its 8 processors. The Cell is not good for running inefficient badly designed code and single or few threaded software (a lot of legacy Windows stuff).
Windows itself is horrible for multi-tasking from an 80's and early 90's Amiga user perspective, even a 7 Mhz Amiga would immediately respond to any mouse click with user feedback, I was able to multi-task between dozens of applications on my 25 Mhz Amiga 4000, copy an pasting and drag and drop, etc without slowdown. From a multi-tasking perspective Windows IMO is just plain horrible, even with today's GHz processors, fast harddrives, GBs of fast RAM to take advantage of and still I very often have to wait for the OS to even respond to user input or while switching between applications. From an 80s Amigan perspective that was pretty unthinkable to be the case beyond the year 2000.
