Benchmarks count for little when compared to actual user productivity. A case in point. I am a member of a sporting club committee. The secretary of the committee recently dispatched an email with a Word document attached which for some reason became scrambled into a.dat file by a security encryption program he was trialling.
I am the only Mac user in the committee mailing group and the only one in the group who could open that attachment, unscramble it, correct it and reply to the sender's request, using nothing more sophisticated than Virtual PC and BBedit.
Productivity scoresheet:
Mac user: 1. PC users: 0.
I'm not going to take clock speeds on because, despite my Mac-ness, I'm willing to accept that high-speed P4s are faster than G4s. The fact is, however, I don't care. My Mac lets me get stuff done with a measure of ease that PC users only occasionally enjoy.
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Benchmarks count for little when compared to actual user productivity. A case in point. I am a member of a sporting club committee. The secretary of the committee recently dispatched an email with a Word document attached which for some reason became scrambled into a .dat file by a security encryption program he was trialling.
I am the only Mac user in the committee mailing group and the only one in the group who could open that attachment, unscramble it, correct it and reply to the sender's request, using nothing more sophisticated than Virtual PC and BBedit.
Productivity scoresheet:
Mac user: 1. PC users: 0.
I'm not going to take clock speeds on because, despite my Mac-ness, I'm willing to accept that high-speed P4s are faster than G4s. The fact is, however, I don't care. My Mac lets me get stuff done with a measure of ease that PC users only occasionally enjoy.