HEHEHEHEHE, Mac OS X Usage Disappointing

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: rpc64
I saw them talking about the new Apple notebooks on tv. The things cost over three thousand freaking dollars for one with an 800MHz processor! WTF? I totally did a double take. That alone is enough to reaffirm my belief that Macs suck.

Don't let the processor speed fool you. They have RISC instruction sets and longer pipelines. An 800MHz PPC chip is pretty slammin. 2 of them is nuts.
Put it this way.
I have a 40MHz SPARC box that's easily as fast as a P166.
Not that that's fast at all, but if you were around back then, think of the difference between your 486SX/33 and your P166....pretty striking difference.

There's lots of valid reasons to hate Mac but the seemingly high price-to-clock speed ratio ain't one of them.

 

[GoodRevrnd]

Originally posted by: Draco
I don't really think that article is fair. I've seen both OS's side by side and OS X is so much nicer. Then again I'm not a seasoned Mac user, but if I had a Mac (which I'd like) I'd definitely run OS X. The coming "Jaguar" release of OS X this summer looks even more promising. How long did Windows 95 suck? Oh yeah... until Windows 2000...

That's where you're wrong! It sucked until WinXP since 2000 is technically an NT system, not a 95/98 system. (And don't point out that XP is a NT system to me either, they "merged" :roll.