I've been playing on XBL everyday of the supposed "outages". Sure there have been many annoyances of being unable to accept some game invitations, unable to listen to messages, or people getting disconnected from games. But, I have been using XBL for about 2.5 years and it has been nothing but stellar service. It also seems that some games are more affected than others. In my case Halo3, performs much better than COD4 in terms of finding stable matches during the "outages".
The XBL service is certainly experiencing problems, but I would definitely not be thinking of canceling my account. Much less try to bring a lawsuit against MS -- (retarded). The simple fact is there is nothing as good as XBL for anyone to use, so it will get fixed and it will still be the most popular online community for console gamers.
My guess would on little speed differences is due to the Von Neumann architecture. In order to execute something you need to place the code and data in memory. Mac+ had to read only a small amount of data into it's tiny memory footprint, so of course it'll probably be about the same when the AMD machine is loading vastly more amounts of data each time it "starts" something.
I'll take the AMD system any day of the week for productivity since it has the internet & networking. Without that most of my productivity would cease or come to a crawl. The internet and networking probably have added more to office productivity than any office app ever will.
As for boot times effecting people productivity, I'm not sure of the logic here. People aren't 100% efficient at work...ever. I doubt 2 mins of boot up time will adversely effect a person's efficiency when the average worker wastes over an hour socializing and web-surfing. If you want shorter boot-up times, load less off the hard disk or use a ramdisk:P.
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I've been playing on XBL everyday of the supposed "outages". Sure there have been many annoyances of being unable to accept some game invitations, unable to listen to messages, or people getting disconnected from games. But, I have been using XBL for about 2.5 years and it has been nothing but stellar service. It also seems that some games are more affected than others. In my case Halo3, performs much better than COD4 in terms of finding stable matches during the "outages". The XBL service is certainly experiencing problems, but I would definitely not be thinking of canceling my account. Much less try to bring a lawsuit against MS -- (retarded). The simple fact is there is nothing as good as XBL for anyone to use, so it will get fixed and it will still be the most popular online community for console gamers.
My guess would on little speed differences is due to the Von Neumann architecture. In order to execute something you need to place the code and data in memory. Mac+ had to read only a small amount of data into it's tiny memory footprint, so of course it'll probably be about the same when the AMD machine is loading vastly more amounts of data each time it "starts" something. I'll take the AMD system any day of the week for productivity since it has the internet & networking. Without that most of my productivity would cease or come to a crawl. The internet and networking probably have added more to office productivity than any office app ever will. As for boot times effecting people productivity, I'm not sure of the logic here. People aren't 100% efficient at work...ever. I doubt 2 mins of boot up time will adversely effect a person's efficiency when the average worker wastes over an hour socializing and web-surfing. If you want shorter boot-up times, load less off the hard disk or use a ramdisk :P.