Can someone prove to me (with benchmarks) that a Mac is faster than a PC??

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Sunner

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There's a guy that posts quite a bit on comp.unix.solaris that has a very good sig.

"The use of Windoze cripples the mind; its use should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence."

True true :)
 

GottaVoodoo2

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Bananas vs. Oranges.

Depends. Men will say oranges. Quick energy boost, tasty and loaded with Vitamin C.

But a woman will say bananas. High Potassium, convenient in a handbag and OH SO FUNCTIONAL!
 

Sunner

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I must say the G4 is one seriously impressive CPU despite what one might think of MacOS.
At 500 MHz it can reach the same performance as a 750 MHz P3 in many cases, and even more sometimes.
I read somewhere that it only has 10 million transistors, and its power consumption is ~8 Watts at 450 MHz.
Very impressive.
Too bad its not desgined for high clockspeeds, or Apple would have one mean mutha of a CPU, of course it would be slower/clock if it had much deeper pipes etc, but probabaly still quite a bit faster than the P3.
 

Eug

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"the thing about u guys is that you hate one part of the mac, and therefor think the rest sucks sh!t."

Uh, Soccerman, if you read my other posts I've said I like the Mac. However, the mouse does indeed suck.

A) Round - never know which directly is up.
B) Single button - I would only get a Mac with dual buttons. (And yes people, contrary to popular belief, you can use two button mice with some software.)
 

Soccerman

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"I will only use macincosh only and only if microsoft makes a windows OS based on mac. You see, in mac os, we only have 1 button of mouse. It restrict us bcos with windows we have a very powerful right click"

Can u make sense of that?

LOL that's a sick article.. gross..

Sunner, well said.

EUG, did I say something against u? sorry if I did.

BTW, this Radeon thing, does it mean that you'll never get a Radeon on a Mac (ie UPGRADING it?), or is it just that it won't get packedged.
 

ElFenix

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