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Mac vs. PC Digital Photography Comparison Redux
Macmurph writes "Bibble Labs has released a lightning fast version of the RAW image convertor, MacBibble. According to MacBibble creator, Eric Hyman, "MacBibble 3.x is almost 10 times faster than the manufacturers software when converting RAW files under OSX.". Prelimenary tests indicate the Mac may be faster than PCs in RAW image conversion afterall. This calls into question the relevance of the the hotly debated article Rob Galbraith posted just 3 weeks ago and discussed here on Slashdot. Two thumbs up for the PowerPC G4's AltiVec vector processing engine, now being put to work in MacBibble."
Jobs' software's ok. NeXT was adequate, but besides his graphics rendering, was WAY OVERPRICED and NOT WORTH IT. OS X is getting better, but it's not enough to keep Apple afloat.
Look, shill, IBM could make 10 million ghz processors and 30234 megabit wireless a standard on their PC's, IF THEY THOUGHT ANYONE WOULD BE STUPID ENOUGH TO PAY THE *HUGE* PREMIUM ON IT!!! Yes, the technology on Macs is 3 to 5 years out there, *for a reason*!
Only Mac users are gullible enough to APPLAUD a company making expensive Gigabit ethernet stock when so very few have networks capable of using its full potential. And what's up with this 802.11g networking? Do you know how fast your cable modem is? How much of that 802.11g's bandwidth is left over? The infrastructure's not there to support it. You'll upgrade before you get to really use any of this stuff. And I love the widescreens on the new PB's, but they're not actual widescreen aspect ratio. Widescreens are 1.78, this is 1.6. WTF? And you wouldn't need the extra room for your apps if damn Apple would put back in the multiple terminals every other Unixy product in the world has. Damn Crippled Unix. You're getting shafted, paying for *way* more accessories than you need, but with a low powered CPU that will have you upgrading in a year, before you could even *find* a network that uses Gigabit ethernet.
RISC is *theoretically* a good design. But Moto's real-world implementation is lacking. And for god's sakes, man, the speed advantage is about *a maximum* of 30% overall over CISC. That means a 3Ghz CISC still kills any G4 out there. They'll probably kill the G5's, too.
Apple is a speck on the PC world's radar. A SMALL speck. And unfortunately, they probably WILL go under soon. Even with the coolness of OS X and their new hardware, they're losing marketshare. They're getting squeezed to death because they don't run Windows. They're not compatible with Windows. They don't run Windows software. They have limited hardware choices. They are after a niche market that is being attacked from all sides. We switch because we hate MS, but I hear more negative stuff Apple's doing than Microsoft. Apple is getting just as bad. And Windows XP and 2000 just don't suck that bad anymore, and in a couple years, Linux is going to blow all of the competition away, what with every country and tech company in the known universe developing for it.
RC5 is twice as fast. Whatever. The other 3000 tests are a CISC landslide. Anyway, my "Hello, World" beats your "Hello, world". And it runs on 95% of the world's computers.