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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.
Macs are coming back!
War in the Middle Ease!
The Amiga isn't dead!
BeOS is... oh...
"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge"
- Charles Darwin
Case closed.
Oh, I can't help quoting you because everything that you said rings true
Hardly my field of expertise, but from what I understand, because the Cocoa and Carbon APIs don't completely suck ass, applications use them a lot, and those APIs are multithreaded, so anything that the API does will be faster on a dual-proc system. The Win32 API, in contrast, is so poorly designed and useless that applications tend to avoid it, going around the API to do things their own way. That's why there's so little consistency between how different Windows apps behave.
Want to see something interesting? In Windows Explorer or Internet Explorer, click-and-hold on the Favorites menu, drag the mouse down away from the menu, and release. The menu disappears - this behavior is consistent with menus in most other apps such as Notepad. Now, do the same thing with any other menu (besides Favorites) in Explorer/MSIE: the menu doesn't disappear until you click. Can someone explain that to me?
$x='S24;r)>63/* h@<5+oZ)32"5cz';$me='phroggy'x$];
$x=~y+ -xz+\0-Tx+;print$_^chop$me for split'',$x;
Fortunately the kiddies on eBay don't have a clue. Good place to sell Macs, bad place to buy.
:-)
It's been that way for years which provides yet another example of the *quality* investment you make in a Mac.
My G4 DP 450 with DVD ROM and then BTO Radeon card cost 3 grand 2 years ago.
Compare all three of these features to the same categories today.
These new G4 Towers at the same price will rock and roll for the same money and will do so in every category, not to mention the effect on Photoshop, iTunes, iMovie, iDVD, and iPhoto (best of the lot), with all (but Photoshop naturally), freebies.
Life is good. With OS X those Wintel junkies can take their 2.2 GHz do-nothings and eat my dust. I ordered one two hours ago. Supposed to ship in "early February."
What day of the month is it? LOL at the Wintel types. Let's see you take tthose Intels and Athlons and do something in the form of work or fun, except move around the desktop while hoping your Directory doesn't become corrupted.
MacGIMP should really rock on the new Towers and new iMacs shipping today.
And last but not least MacOS X is going to sizzle in the GUI or via the command line.
(Did I mention? My Apple stock went up in value today.
(Did I remember to mention cocoa OS X games with the new graphics card? All the clueless can dream about booting from Linux into Windoze and running their PC games. I'll take mine cocoa on Mac OS X, thank you very much and to heck with the Wintel ports.)
I customize the G4 with everything I would want total cost: 8800.00 dollars!
I tried reproducing your experiment:
2 x 1 GHz PPC G4
1.5 GB RAM
2 x 72 GB Ultra160 SCSI drives
22" Apple Cinema Display
iPod
Zip 250
GeForce 4 MX
UltraSCSI PCI card
internal modem
Apple Pro speakers
AirPort card
Cost: $8,803.
Now, then, let's be fair. Take out the iPod (sheesh; they're great, but don't use one to artifically inflate the price of the Mac) and the 2 x 72 GB SCSI drives and the Zip drive (does anybody still use those things?).
Cost: $6,105.
Now drop the Apple Cinema Display because, while it's a gorgeous item, it's $2500! Also, I believe that the Mac will perform better with 1 GB or 2 GB of RAM instead of 1.5 GB; something to do with interleaving. Drop 512 MB of RAM and save another $200.
Cost: $3,406.
I'll be damned! The computer I want really *does* cost about $3,000!
Steve Jobs:
"Taco, I am your father."
But...lets face it, if Apple wasn't so anti-competitive there would be lots of nice cheap apples floating around...but there aren't. It has to therefore be valid to compare the lower end pcs as apple has no alternative. I'd love to be able to buy a nice cheap mac, but since they don't exist I buy PCs.
And comparing apple to premium PC brands it has to be said that for equivalent performance pcs still come out cheaper.