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Dual 1Ghz G4 PowerMac With Extra Yummy
A huge number of readers submitted the new
Dual Ghz Power Mac that
Apple has announced. Includes a Geforce 4 and assorted other bells and
whistles that will ring and blow for the Mac Junkie. They start
at $3k and seriously make me want a Mac.
"The Apple Pro Keyboard also comes with full-sized keys for Page Up and Down, Home and End, Insert and forward Delete.."
Oh wow!
Nice to see apple finally backed down from having stupid irregular key sizes. I think using the idiotic small arrow keys (along with the small F keys) along with the stupid puck mouse on a G3 scarred me for life . Now for the mouse button thing...
We /.'ed apple... I think legoman's DSL lasted longer. And he had big pictures of his lego mural.
If voting were effective, it would be illegal by now.
Now compare these speeds:
New Mac Quake III
PC Quake III Speed
You can notice that an AMD Athlon XP1800+ with a generation 3 card (Radeon or GeForce 3) is about twice as fast a the new dual 1Ghz Mac with the GeForce4MX.
The only possible explanation is the relative low memory bandwidth of the card, that cripples the performance.
You must have money to burn: you spent $6k in 1 1/2 years when you could have originally bought an Athlon system for $1.5k that would still outmuscle both Mac systems...
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With the combonation of OSX and Dual 1ghz processors, Apple now is staged to show the world what it is made of. For all you nay-sayers that think Macs are only for Photoshop filters, I got news for you.
First of all, Macs cost less. SHUT UP! They do. If you compare an iMac to an equally equiped Dell, the iMac is 400$ less than the CD-RW version of the Dell and 400$ less than the DVD-R version. Dell 8200 vs. iMac, I tried the slower versions of the PCs on their website as well, but first off the speed comparison isn't fair to the PC, but the iMac still beat it in value until you go to the 1.1ghz Celeron version, which doesn't have graphics acceloration or a hard drive larger than 40 gigs. I haven't started with the new PowerMacs, but eventually I will have a website proving that a Mac costs less than any of the competition. Feel free to verify the numbers: iMac CD-RW 1299, dell, 1663
iMac DVD-R 1699, dell 2032
Now, past that, Mac is currently getting all the advantages of the BSD and open source software community since the Developers Tools, which look strikingly like Visual C++, come FREE when you buy OSX. They nativly compile OS 9, OS X, and BSD/Linux applictions, I currently develop a Mud server in Project Builder, which runs on BSD and Linux.
As far as graphics and video are concerened, it's OBVOIUS to anyone who KNOWS anything about processors that a 7 step G4 with the FPU unit used is going to be over twice as fast as a 20 step P4 using an FPU unit. Games, being an unfair arena to a superior processor which runs cooler at a lower voltage and clock speed, the Mac still matches the PC in most arenas. http://www.barefeats.com So speed isn't an issue.
Resale value is also better on a Mac. And if you haven't noticed, most new Mac software runs on hardware 3 years old! The staying power of a PowerMac is obvious. There's no need to upgrade at all till processor speeds almost tripple. (I upgraded from a G3 233 to a G4 733, with no problems)
SO, a special note to all you PC idiots. If you want to spend more money on slower computers, with hot running parts, bad operating systems, Microsofts invasion of privacy, and oh, let's not forget all those WONDERFUL games on PCs, that's fine. The best day of my life was when I left the 4000$ game system market and got a Mac. I much prefer GTA3 and FFX on PS2. Not to mention with OSX I have one click webserving, all the advantages of BSD, including the fastest SMP of any OS, and a huge open source community that is only growing with each Unix nut converted. What I don't get are you Unix/BSD/Linux junkies who don't see the joy in a Mac. It's BSD with the arguably the greatest User Interface made! There is an easy way to boot to console only ( click Other as login, ">console" as username, no password ), and everything made in Project Builder is easily portable to any other flavor of Unix or Linux, even MS-DOS for the sheep.
So PC people, get a clue, get a life, and get a Mac. Maybe then you can appreciate style, user interface, and speed, and if not, I'm sure you guys will never run out of reasons why you don't have a Mac. You have plenty of time to think about it while you wait for your PC to finish crashing and reboot.
Dokujaryu
Some people can afford the best, some people can't.
I paid cash for my new (2002) car, so get off of your high horse about "some people" not being able to afford a Mac.
I don't own a Mac because Macs are not the best. They are slow, expensive, and have a dearth of hardware and software available for them. They are designed around the user-as-idiot paradigm.
I recently had the "opportunity" to use Photoshop on a Power Mac G4. I was stunned at how slow and unresponsive it was when compared to its performance on my Athlon XP system. Same thing for the OS/X GUI. It was glacial compared to the snappy response to which I have become accustomed. Games that fly on my PC look like slide shows on most Power Mac G4 systems.
So, buy one if you want, but count me out.