"Oh, what a LOAD. See, I knew Mac users would do this"
AH, DesignDawg, I don't use Macs - you're making assumptions again. Well I use them at tech. But I don't really like them much. Mind you I like the way one can 'pop the bonnet' on them, that's good design. But I personally think any workstation at that price should have more than 3 spare slots & 2 external bays.
"<<If I was using photoshop I'd rather use a Mac, while Corel Draw for the PC>>. WHY?!?!?! This is the main point here. BECAUSE STEVE JOBS TOLD YOU TO?? A PC s BETTER at Photoshop than a MAC. So WHY would you rather use the Mac? Now KEEP IN MIND that ALL the rest of the stuff you said does NOT apply here. The different OSes, the different kernels, the "fair playing fields" and such.... If you are going to use PHOTOSHOP, you will be doing so on a Mac on MAC OS 9....."
Photoshop suiting the Mac has got nothing to do with hardware. Its just the way photoshop is designed, its designed for the Mac, really the PC version is just a port. So all the paramenters of the app & the way the app works - the photoshop GUI etc, just don't suite a PC. I hate using photoshop on a PC, as far as using a PC, plain old Corel Draw Suite is better cause its designed for the PC.
I personally couldn't give a fuk which is better a Mac or a PC, but from my experiance & the experiance of most experts, clock for clock the G4 does perform better than PCs, but the difference isnt much. Once price & avaliability is taken into account the PC is miles ahead. Tests (& that's plural not singular) on Slashdot showed that a 450mhz G4 using Redhat PPC, was on average slightly faster than a Redhat 450mhz P3 using the same HDD, video card & ram. But that the PC worked out faster once price was entered into the equation.
"Well, here's the deal: Mac OS 9 is ALL THEY HAVE
BTW, Mac OSX Server has been out for at least a year. Its Mac OSX Workstation that seems to be taking Apple forever to get to just the beta stage.
"Oh, and you should know that OS 9 doesn't even support SMP, right"
Also Mac OS9 is SMP compatable, well semi-compatible(mind you have to also get SMP apps). Right now all the top line G4s are SMP dual processor units, also its 500mhz not 550mhz.
"Also, about running the same Linux distro.... WHY THE F*** would anyone do that? TO benchmark GIMP? There's a REASON why all these G4's aren't running Linux. --Because DESIGNERS NEED TO RUN DESIGN SOFTWARE. See?"
There are thousands of people out there running Linux on G3/G4 workstations & really its the only way to compare the underlying hardware with PCs, on a clock to clock basis. BTW, did I mention 'design' anywhere in my post, Computers are used for other purposes. Yellow Dog Linux on a G4 makes quite a good server you know. & anyway GIMP on a Linux isnt a bad way to get arround multiple license fees. You seem to be very obssessed about design (its even in your name) & comparings Macs with PCs (its even in your sig). I would have thought an important part of being a designer is being able to work outside the circle & seeing things in different ways. I could run a test that shows a ole 686 Cyrix running at 150mhz is faster than a PII, but would it mean anything, no. Just as Steve Gates using some silly Special special Photoshop code to show that Macs are 4 times faster is balony too. Just as your little 'test' means nothing too.
I really don't give a fuk about which is better, my AMD K6-3 400@500mhz keeps me quite happy. Why are you so so emotional & obsessed about such a non issue as Mac verses PC?
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