apple hasn't come close to beating a pc in any way except looks. you can easily find tons of reviews and side by side comparison's between the two clearly showing real world speeds. You may say the reviews between the two only apply for office processing and stuff like that, but I'm talking about audio reviews... Here is some proof. A $950.00 pc vs. a $1800 mac.AdamJay wrote:apple markets to the creative professional, simply because that is where their products beat the competition.
His results were:
1) G5 = 17 tracks. Screen updates were horrible.
2) AMD = 32 tracks + 18 aux. Screen updates were very snappy.
And his conclusion was:
The Mac G5 1.6 was completed unusable and has been replaced by a very fast machine that has upgrade potential. I saved ~$1400 by not buying a new dual Mac. I know I will be able to squeeze out another 10 tracks in the DaveC test after the Athlon system is optimized and overclocked.
While on this topic, this thread is dedicated to maximizing the performance of a pc for under $1000. As quoted from the thread:
'The new AMD processors have achieved over 100% better performance than Mac G4 and PIII systems and 50% better than Mac G5 systems. With rock solid stability, they easily push past the 32 track/160 effects limit.
my ibook G3 is in for repairs for the 4th time in 1 year. and on it's 2nd motherboard. It never leaves my house, and has somehow "broke" itself each time. A friend of mine is on his 3rd powerbook also. Video card fry'd, then his screen had huge lines running through it, and now his dvd-cdrw doesn't work.the most durable laptops with the best battery life on the market.
As for battery life, this is taken from apples site:
A rechargeable lithium ion battery that provides up to 5 hours (12-inch PowerBook) or 4.5 hours (15-inch and 17-inch PowerBook)
This is taken from cnet (ibm x31 review)
Mfr estimated battery life 6 hour(s)
and I'm sure there are a ton of pc laptops that can go much further than 6 hours. My new compaq is getting around 3.5-4 hours and it's a desktop replacement. The fujitsu P series comes to mind, I think they hit 10 hour battery life.
a 32-bit pc is capable of taking full advantage of up to 4gb of ram. if you need more than 4gb of ram, then you should be running an earth simulator.you can't just look at Megahertz... what good is 3ghz if the OS can't take advantage of larger amounts of ram?
a 64-bit pc is capable 16gb of ram. why anyone would need 16gb of ram is beyond me. But, if you do need more than 3ghz, and more than 16gb of ram, you can always buy this. Then you can have over 10ghz, 32gb of ram and over a terabite of space. Something a mac will not be capable of for probably another 3-5 years.
In my last 4-5 years of using my pc's I have not had 1 virus, worm, or spyware. If you know how to maintain your computer, you will not get any of the above.what good is 3ghz when you are running an OS that is the target of every worm/virus/spyware?
you shouldn't have to bounce down any vsti's after spending $2000+ for a machine.so i gotta bounce a couple VSTi's down... at least i am doing it on a carefree machine.
for some reason, this doesn't seem valid after reading the above post.as with all things in life, you get what you pay for.
what good is that increase of % when the pc's are still far ahead. The only reason apples % jumped 25 was because the G4 was so damn slow, if they didn't jump the 25% the G5 would have been equal to a PIII chip.Intel's performance has increased 12.5% in the last year, where as the G5 has jumped 25%.
nope, but you will see Intel's P4 HT 3.4ghz in a laptop here.sure you can say that you won't have a G5 in a laptop any time soon, but neither will you see Intel's 3.6ghz.
This is the only thing apple has going for itself. It's os. OSX is amazing, I will totally agree with that. Is it amazing enough to make me use it on a slow computer? Definitly not. I love it for surfing the net, reading email, chatting on AIM, stuff like that. But when it comes to power, it feels like the engine died. There's just no power in there...G5 iMacs will most likely be out in September, and OSX 10.4 will come one year before Longhorn... thats going to be huge!
I'm writting this post in 64 bit windows, and am also running live in 64 bit also. the 64 bit era is sitting in front of me as I type.getting a PC now would be like catching the dying tail of an era, before they start the 64-bit era.
And all of the above is why I decided to stick with a pc.just my opinion, and why i decided to stick with mac.
