Many pc morons fail to realize that their single processor P4 they built themselves for under 1k is nowhere near the dual processor G5 in performance. They bring up things like Dell's 350 dollar computer and how much cheaper pc's are, ya they are cheaper but you get what you pay for. for 350 you get every possible corner cut everywhere in that pc and it will most likely require another 500 at least to get it to respectable speeds. When comparing prices/computer, you need to compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges. Shoot the xeon processor, the most comparable to the G5 in terms of performance, is like 800 a chip or some ridiculous price, so start configuring guys, hit up pricewatch and try to make your system 200 bucks cheaper than the g5.........then also try to sell your system for 60% of what you paid for it 2 years later..........and finally try to add in 1 year of no questions asked award winning support..............and tell me what you get.......nothing....because you can't get that on pc's. I just sold my 2 year old 867 Mhz quicksilver for 1,000 on ebay, no monitor included. I paid 1600 for the thing........so i basically rented a mac for 300 a year for 2 years. Get with the program folks, and get a mac. I know you hate all the hype and think they are overhyped, etc. Well believe the hype, and then some
Well i don't want to play devils advocate and start this up again, but I admit that os X has frozen on me once....it's when I put in a gamecube disc, the cd-rom drive just kept spinning for like 10 minutes and i couldn't do anything, like forcequit or relaunch the finder, so...I had to reboot....ruining my months and months of hard work building up my uptime stat......it ended at 3 months and 8 days......:-( stupid friend who suggested i put it in........
(on a side note, windoze freezes to, so don't get all hyped up you microsoft brown-nosers. Even billy gates can't crack the gamecubes superdisc......I'm curious as to how this release group ripped the data, they must have some some connection between the gamecube and their pc, because i don't know of any normal dvd-roms that can read these things, does anyone else?
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Many pc morons fail to realize that their single processor P4 they built themselves for under 1k is nowhere near the dual processor G5 in performance. They bring up things like Dell's 350 dollar computer and how much cheaper pc's are, ya they are cheaper but you get what you pay for. for 350 you get every possible corner cut everywhere in that pc and it will most likely require another 500 at least to get it to respectable speeds. When comparing prices/computer, you need to compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges. Shoot the xeon processor, the most comparable to the G5 in terms of performance, is like 800 a chip or some ridiculous price, so start configuring guys, hit up pricewatch and try to make your system 200 bucks cheaper than the g5.........then also try to sell your system for 60% of what you paid for it 2 years later..........and finally try to add in 1 year of no questions asked award winning support..............and tell me what you get.......nothing....because you can't get that on pc's. I just sold my 2 year old 867 Mhz quicksilver for 1,000 on ebay, no monitor included. I paid 1600 for the thing........so i basically rented a mac for 300 a year for 2 years. Get with the program folks, and get a mac.
I know you hate all the hype and think they are overhyped, etc. Well believe the hype, and then some
-yet another satisfied mac user
Well i don't want to play devils advocate and start this up again, but I admit that os X has frozen on me once....it's when I put in a gamecube disc, the cd-rom drive just kept spinning for like 10 minutes and i couldn't do anything, like forcequit or relaunch the finder, so...I had to reboot....ruining my months and months of hard work building up my uptime stat......it ended at 3 months and 8 days......:-( stupid friend who suggested i put it in........ (on a side note, windoze freezes to, so don't get all hyped up you microsoft brown-nosers. Even billy gates can't crack the gamecubes superdisc......I'm curious as to how this release group ripped the data, they must have some some connection between the gamecube and their pc, because i don't know of any normal dvd-roms that can read these things, does anyone else?