[muglo] Re: B&W or PC?
- From: "Joe McGuire" <theguy@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 17:43:17 -0400
Uh oh.. I do hope something doesn't start because of this.
I use a PC (AMD 2000+) and it certainly smokes my TiBook 667 on a number
of things, as one would expect from a machine that runs 3 times as fast,
with a much better video card and disk subsystem. That being said, I
hardly find the OS X interface sluggish compare and in some areas I find
it more intuitive than the windows products that I am much more familiar
with.
I did some very unscientific comparisons between my TiBook and my PC
with a 135MB image in the latest and greatest Photoshop on both
machines. All in all, the PC was *maybe* 5%-10% faster, with the PC
devastating the pb on some tasks and the mac killing the pc on others.
It wasn't a scripted test or anything, just me and a stop-watch.
What mac are you using?
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-----Original Message-----
From: muglo-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:muglo-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Alex
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 4:34 PM
To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [muglo] B&W or PC?
On Tue, 08 Apr 2003 13:05:54 -0400, "Eric D." <hideme666@xxxxxxxxxxx>
said:
>
> The reason I'd pick the B&W as the first reasonably future-proof OS X
Mac
> as
> opposed to the Beige is that the B&W comes with a whole slew of things
> that
> make it a modern computer that would require add-on PCI cards (taking
up
> expansion slots) in a Beige:
I thought I'd finally decided to buy a B&W, but, over the weekend I
think
I may have changed my mind. I built a pc out of parts donated by my
brother and found during dumpster dives. It is a 550mhz tower, 10/100
ethernet, usb, agp video, and it is _fast_ compared to any mac I've ever
used. Especially any mac running slow OSX.
So... now I am thinking... here is this _free_ 550mhz pc sitting here
(ok, it did cost me $29 for a new 52x cdrom, the other 2 dumpster finds
were toast), with an OS as foreign to me as OSX, and I'm thinking of
dropping ~$800 on a B&W (with serial solution and cdrw).
Now I am thinking that WINME/XP is just about as easy to learn the guts
of as OSX will be. And OSX is slow, slow, slow compared to this pc. Why
have a sluggish internet experience with X, when a free pc is so much
faster...
Never thought I'd be a happy pc user... until OSX that is.
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