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<blockquote data-quote="DriftNismo" data-source="post: 902586" data-attributes="member: 79409"><p>In the Apple Store, they were mainly photo work; Photo management, certain photoshop work as well as video editing on Final Cut on my friend's 2.26Ghz iMac. Other than that, they were mainly simple tasks, yet they still seemed faster on the Macs; Browsing around files, using word processing programs, setting calendar appointments, sending an e-mail off with attachments, etc.</p><p></p><p>Where on Windows this simple applications as well as the more advanced ones seemed to freeze up momentarily a lot more and generally take longer to load, <strong><em>especially</em></strong> with photo management.</p><p></p><p>To keep it fair all these tasks were carried out on a 20"/24" 2.4GHz iMac w/ 2GB RAM and an ATi HD2600 Pro, compared to a Sun W2100z 2.39Ghz dual AMD Opterons, 16GB DDR2 and an X1950 running Vista Ultimate x64.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Again, this was mainly photoshop and photo management work, as well as word processing and Google Sketchup. Photoshop was definitely quicker on the eMac, mainly because of it locking up so much on the Windows machine. Word processing wasn't <em>that</em> much quicker, but again, it locked up a lot more (momentarily, but still annoying) on the Windows machines we have. Sketchup was a little slower to be honest on the eMac, but again, it locked up a whole lot on the Windows machines.</p><p></p><p>For specs, see first post.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DriftNismo, post: 902586, member: 79409"] In the Apple Store, they were mainly photo work; Photo management, certain photoshop work as well as video editing on Final Cut on my friend's 2.26Ghz iMac. Other than that, they were mainly simple tasks, yet they still seemed faster on the Macs; Browsing around files, using word processing programs, setting calendar appointments, sending an e-mail off with attachments, etc. Where on Windows this simple applications as well as the more advanced ones seemed to freeze up momentarily a lot more and generally take longer to load, [b][i]especially[/i][/b] with photo management. To keep it fair all these tasks were carried out on a 20"/24" 2.4GHz iMac w/ 2GB RAM and an ATi HD2600 Pro, compared to a Sun W2100z 2.39Ghz dual AMD Opterons, 16GB DDR2 and an X1950 running Vista Ultimate x64. Again, this was mainly photoshop and photo management work, as well as word processing and Google Sketchup. Photoshop was definitely quicker on the eMac, mainly because of it locking up so much on the Windows machine. Word processing wasn't [i]that[/i] much quicker, but again, it locked up a lot more (momentarily, but still annoying) on the Windows machines we have. Sketchup was a little slower to be honest on the eMac, but again, it locked up a whole lot on the Windows machines. For specs, see first post. [/QUOTE]
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