xanotos said:
Hi all,
I'm trying to figure out and can't find anywhere what my ibook G4 1.33ghz would be equivalent to a Pentium or AMD system. The reason I ask is to show my Windoze friends it's faster then what they have.
Thanks in advance,
David
Hello
Well I currently use an ibook mostly when at home even tho' I have a AMD Athlon 2500+ Sempron with 768MB Ram Computer sitting next to me.
The ibook is usually connected to my external speakers, USB Keyboard & Wireless samsung mouse, and 17" Viewsonic Monitor.
So no need to even touch the iBook when all external peripherials are connected to it.
Personally speaking, and this is only my own opinion based on my experience. I prefer using my ibook over the computer because I find the experience much more pleasurable, applications run much more stable, smoother, without the usual windows hangs, freezes, reboots, viruses, etc
I have various software installed on my ibook, including Adobe Photoshop CS, AOL for Mac, Adobe Acrobat Pro, Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac, and various others..
Most of the time I have 5 or 6 ram hungry applications like this running at the same time and very rarely do i ever experience any slow performance or system freezes like I do when running half the applications on my windows box.
Everything seems to work fine and run smoothly and efficiently on my ibook, so the windows pc is just sitting their half the time, so I might even just sell it now.
To sum things up, I'd say my experience of using Mac over the last 9 months or so has been very impressive to say the least, and I'd find it very difficult to draw a comparison between Windows & Mac Computers.
For me its more about the quality of the experience, i.e.multiple apps running smoothly together with minimal (if any) slow performance issues, the ability to customize my desktop, icons, all this and more on only a 1.2Ghz Mac Computer!
I've never experience nothing like that before, I mean how powerfully & effortlessely everything just seems to work on a minimum specced 1.2Ghz apple computer.
I've used & built Pentium 4 and AMD Athlon/Sempron Computers with varying specs ranging from 1Ghz Processor machines right up to P4 and AMD Athlon 3200+ (with 1 gig of ram in most) running on fully patched & updated versions of windows xp with antivirus software.
The Mac OS X experience beats the pants off anything I've used to date.
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