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  1. Re:Speed is good... but price? on New G5 Power Macs "Fastest Desktop In The World" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    First off, your English unfortunately is working against your making a point. I think you meant to say that Macs cost 30% more than PCs, which is simply ignorant to state. Second, you are dead wrong on price/performace. I work in a lab doing bioinformatic analysis of the bovine genome. The OLD G4 Xserves gets twice the performance per dollar as any linux-based workstations, built in-house or otherwise. In many ways they are faster to use for our jobs than shared-memory supercomputers to which we have access. Third, I also compose music, do some game development (including some 3D graphics work), and have done so on Macs and PCs. Even on an older Mac, I am far more productive, but back to the point: Configure a somewhat equivalent Dell and compare the price to a G5. Not only is the price competitive, the performance is superior with the Mac. Your attempted point on bang-for-buck is outright false. In any case, no one has suggested you buy a Mac in the first place, so why are you so defensive?

  2. We can have a say on Farscape Finale Tonight · · Score: 1

    There are thousands of us here. If we all e-mail the Scifi channel with our outrage that Farscape has been cancelled, they might realize it is in their best interest to sign a new contract. I got this e-mail address from their site: program@www.scifi.com. I think the writers and directors for the series left it to be continued for this very possibility--an outcry from the fans. Come on everyone, we can do something about this!!!