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Old 06-23-2003, 08:32 PM   #6 (permalink)
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<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">persoanlly, being a graphics/video person, I ahev always found the Mac processors to be able to allocate RAM better than any PC can.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever as the processor isn't involved at all in allocating RAM. That's an issue of the memory controller or the OS depending on to what you're refering. Your statement is still inaccurate though as the Mac OS hasn't had protected memory until OSX, something Windows, BeOS, Unix, Linux, et alia have had for a decade.

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">The fact of the matter is, in real world situations for work alone Mac's out perform PC's 9 out of 10 times.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

This is an improveable statement. What real world situations? What work? And what are these 9 out of 10 tries?

Prove your ascertion, my friend.

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">I understand your point of view, but I already have PC's that can handle my gaming capabilities, I don't need that, I need something that has robust computing power and memory allocation.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

I still have no idea where you're getting this memory allocation idea.

I'm assuming this is what you mean by "robust computing":

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">For example, I was building a program in Flash, and the FLA's were in excess of 800Mb. A Brand new P4 2.4Ghz Vaio could not open the FLA and woudl crash. A G3 power book with half the ram and half the 1/3rd the processor speed was able to do it. You know why...<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

Flash is a crappy format and the software to make it is crap. There are a million reasons a program can crash. Assuming it's the computer's ability to allocate memory is simply the result of too much time under OS9 and System8 as the memory subsystems of those OSes were so bad that they were responsible for 99% of their problems.

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">because the PC could not Allocate ram to run it, <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

Prove it.

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">the G3 used it's L3 cache to allocate the RAM and run the program.<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">

What on earth are you talking about?

Cache's don't allocate RAM, the OS does. The L3 cache is just temporary holding for information currently in use.
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