<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Semi On
It's hideous and their performance numbers are all bullshit.
They used gcc to compile their test programs which totally handicaps the P4 as it ignores much of the processor's feature set while using an updated gcc compiler for the G5. The actual Spec numbers for a Dell P4 3GHz box are in excess of 12000, dwarfing the capabilities of these new machines.
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OK Semi, now you're way off base here. I agree that to some this may look hideous, but some people think the G is ugly too. Besides, when was the last time you saw something original on the PC side?
Looks aside, I'm sure the numbers are just as acurate when the PC folks compare their systems to Macs. It's the same deal in any industry. McDonalds says they're better than Burger King don't they?
I'm really curious as to when you last used a Mac because you seem to have a really distorted view of them. I personally use both, a Mac at home by choice, and a PC at work because I'm at a large corporation that like many other, has an IT staff full of people that don't know Macs and are therefore scared of them. I run most of the same applications at home than I do at work except for all of the Apple apps and Outlook on Windows. And my Mac at home (867 Mhz/G4) runs faster and more efficiently than the PC (1.8 Ghz/P4) at work hands down. I have to restart my PC at least once a week because of crashes or freezes and my Mac hasn't crashed once since I installed OS X a year and a half ago.
Then you say Macromedia Flash is Crap? I know that you know your electronics, but you have no idea what you're talking about when it comes to computers and the internet if you think Flash is crap. Never in the history of computers has a technology been so widely accepted and embraced by not only the people that develop the content, but also by the end user. What web animation software is better?
Chaz, I really hope you don't believe everything you read. Why would you chose to discredit the numbers put out by Apple, but chose to accept the numbers put out by a digital video magazine? Do you know them to be more credible, or are you just chosing to believe the one that favors your platform. If you've never used one how can you back up your statements? The last company I worked at had a $20K Windows video editing system. I brought in my $3k Mac to give them a demo, and they were so blown away that they bought their first ever Mac. The only thing they were worried about was integration. In less than 15 minutes, I had it on the network communicating with all PCs, printers, email, etc. It really is that easy.
You really shouldn't discredit something you know absolutely nothing about. Let's wait for the independant tests to come out and we'll see who comes out on top. There's nothing I can't do on a Mac that you can do on a PC, but there's plenty I can do on a Mac that can't be done on a PC.
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