A guy like you who obviously likes to "get under the hood" of his computer
can certainly get more "bang for the buck" as far as raw power goes. Those
however who like simplicity, quality, performance without making a hobby out
of attaining it themselves, like Macs.
In some benchmarks the dual processor G4 800 is 300 times (yes, that's not a
typo, 300 times faster then a 2+ gHz Pentium 4)
Cpu clockspeed is kinda like raw engine displacement, a marginal indicator
of overall performance. (AMD with tell you the same thing)
Motorola's G3/4 chip architecture is far more efficient then Intel's
(shorter pipelines and less of them) Therefore a 700mhz Mac is closer to a
1ghz P4 but it depends so much on the type of task your benchmarking, Apple
chooses tasks that give their chip the edge, Intel the opposite.
I make my living working with, teaching, and managing a network of PC's
including Gateways, Dells, and tons of homemades. Windows, 95/98,2000, XP,
I use my Mac mostly because it's operating system (OS X) is way beyond
anything Microsoft has put out yet. I have yet to meet a techie (and I've
met lots of those) who truly knows both systems that didn't readily admit
the Mac was a superior machine overall. Not in every category maybe but
overall.
But to each his own. I don't use PCs for anything other then work (even
there most of what I do is done on my Mac) so I honestly can't give an
overall comparison. I can run Windows on my Mac too when I have too, which
isn't very often thank heaven.
IMHO Macs are better, but unlike the HD vs. Virago analogy, in this case you
get something for your buck.
Did I mention I like Viragos?
--
Jeff
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'75 Kawasaki Z1 900 (in moth balls as of today)
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On 3/30/02 3:10 PM, "Gumby [Matthew J Smith]" <Gumby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I would label the Mac and the HD in the same category. Nice machines but way
> over price on parts and labor for what you get. Let alone the availability of
> them. You do not see a giant section of video cards for Macs, game or
> software.
> And if there are some made for Mac they will cost 3 times as much. Friend does
> Mac service; going rate is 200hr in town, 50-75 for a PC.
>
> With a PC I can build any design I want where Mac you just got to buy their
> version, no home building parts available at reasonable prices.
> I can build a screaming PC for half the price of even a regular PC off the
> shelf. You cannot build a Mac off the shelf for less than retail.
>
> Right now I have dual Intel p3800@916mhz /
> 512 of PC150 sdram@157mhz/
> Gforce2 TI pro 64 megs of DDRam, gpu 250mhz, ddram 400mhz/
> On a Msi 694d pro ar, ata 100 with raid.
>
> Dual boot Win2k pro sp3 / Win me
>
> And at anytime I can just go buy a bigger cpu; ram; video; storage space and
> not
> even need to ask will it work, just slap it in and go. And parts are super
> cheap
> right now. You can build your own 3 Ghz performance monster gaming machine for
> about 1,200.00. I have about 900.00 in parts mine but I built when prices were
> high.
>
>
>
>
> Now a Mac is good if you're a graphics artist or something but it is way to
> much
> like a HD.
>
> Download some benchmarks and lets race, Vrooom Vrooom Vrooom.
>
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>> <<Mac computers, like
>> Viragos are tough and built for the long hual. If you want to use one of
>> those HD type, oh Im sorry, I meant PC type, knock yourself out.;)>>
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