MAC and IBM. Comparisions, Benchmarks, OS... Any Information?

[Degenerate]

well, anything regarding their:

Software: OS, suport....
Hardware: compatibility, price, speed, benchmark....
Human interface:


Links, comments, are all welcome!. Please, let this be a friendly discussion

 

[julianf]

Well, i use PC because i'm a "nerd" and like to mess up and get it back together, try to increase speed and all that.. in my line of work, "studiotechnician" i would be using Mac because it just works, all the time.. never f.u.c.k.s up (sorry) but PC is just more fun!!!

check out the new titanium from mac... blow everything off the stick!
at apple.com

for this i could get a MoTu firewire 32I/O adat sound card with shark dsp. and mix m.jackson live... from a laptop.

apple is great but boring
pc is fun but compared to mac pretty slow

 

[bex0rs]

MAC and IBM. Comparisions, Benchmarks, OS... Any Information?

I may be wrong, but I'm pretty much that this has previously been discussed 349573495734 times on 2343872 online forums (give or take a few).

~bex0rs

 

[Degenerate]

hmm. i did have a look at the search, i found the apple and orangers thing, anything else?

 

[Degenerate]

Come on, I am at school now....

 

[Degenerate]

I remember there was a large thread on this and i cant seem to find it...

 

[Ryan]

yep, the old threads get deleted.

 

[Degenerate]

ya, any links?

 

[loosbrew]

IMHO Macs arent worth the hippie's time who made it. i guess theres a market for everything. you can get a hell of a system for the price you pay for a mac. honestly, photoshop are optimized for macs which make sthen kick ass for photoshop and illustrator and the like, but all around PCs have beter compatibility and more support.

loosbrew

 

[Degenerate]

has any one had a try at their OS X (10)

 

[julianf]

i want osX on my PC, havn't found out what the poll at apple.com ended with yet..

 

[bigbootydaddy]

<< IMHO Macs arent worth the hippie's time who made it >>


these &quot;hippies&quot; are smart enough to include onboard scsi (more than 5 years ago....), software eject on a floppy (how hard is that...why cant pc users get that....), and now OSX. youll be eating your words sooner or later.

edit: they also brought firewire, made tvtuners popular, first platform for the greatest file trader called hotline, airports (nuff said), dvd-ram drives now included, on and on.

and i hate when people think, well, macs are now copying pcs...before macs went PCI to make it easier for manufactures, they had there own nuBus and i forget what was the other one. up until recently, the adb (adp?) port was dropper in favor of usb, but i still think the adb port killed ps2 anyday.

 

[benjamit]

it's good when a company is inovative but like any other company the botoom line is profit and the shareholders

when you're too inovative what you come up with may not get adopted in time for profitable numbers

so apple comes up with things that are new or at least new to apple and either the imb clone industry adopts it or not

but its apple that has to make a profit

i've been opening up g4s at work and their opening mechanism in their tower cases are inovative but there's few spots (lots of empty space though) for drive expansion in their boxs

so if you want more than a couple of hdds you have to use an external box and external ac adaptor

aside from the cpu the rest of the system is comparable to a imb clone

an optical mouse usb, usb kybd, aperture grill monitor, low noise high output case fan, low noise psu fan

though apples have less port types which i like

 

[Degenerate]

is there a site where they compare a P4 1.7 to a mac 733 and a Athlon 1.4?

 

[johnny1111]

Go here:Battlefront

 

[AnitaPeterson]

Macs are useful if you just want a machine that works flawlessly for things like desktop publishing, audio-video editing and the like.

That's about the only thing I can say. They're terrific for the communications and media industry.

As for a home user, they're perfect for AOL users (duh!)

There isn't much els you can do with them (gaming is a joke, for instance), and the software (and peripherals) prices are ridiculous. Without mentioning the reduced availability.

A friend of mine was telling me that he'd like to buy a Power G3, or a Cube... i told him that if I'd had the money for a Mac, I'd get a kickass PC, which I'd tweak to get maximum stability, and would be much more versatile.