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<blockquote data-quote="Nightblade" data-source="post: 35732"><p>Pentium 4, eh?&nbsp; Pretty sweet.&nbsp; But then again, only 1.3 Ghz and only a 20 GB hard drive...I mean, I'm using a six-year old G3 iMac, and even its hard drive is bigger (by 10 MB)!&nbsp; Still, it's quite possible that you could notice a reduction in speed when you buy your Mac (unless it's a G5, which although probably can't top a top-of-the-line P4 or Athlon, could still probably top yours <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />).&nbsp; And the OS?&nbsp; Pretty stable, just like XP.&nbsp; I mean, it'll still crash if under too much pressure from a lot of programs (especially ones that require a lot of the CPU, like Photoshop CS), and perhaps every three months or so it'll crash, but overall it's quite stable.&nbsp; All of the newest operating systems seem to be.&nbsp; But don't think of doing real business work on the Mac.&nbsp; There are applications available, but why should you have to buy them when they're already available on Windows for free?&nbsp; Like Access, Visual Basic, Publisher, etc.&nbsp; As I said, there are ones that do them on the Mac, but ya gotta buy 'em and from what I've heard most of them are inferior to the stuff that Microsoft makes.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Nightblade, post: 35732"] Pentium 4, eh? Pretty sweet. But then again, only 1.3 Ghz and only a 20 GB hard drive...I mean, I'm using a six-year old G3 iMac, and even its hard drive is bigger (by 10 MB)! Still, it's quite possible that you could notice a reduction in speed when you buy your Mac (unless it's a G5, which although probably can't top a top-of-the-line P4 or Athlon, could still probably top yours :p). And the OS? Pretty stable, just like XP. I mean, it'll still crash if under too much pressure from a lot of programs (especially ones that require a lot of the CPU, like Photoshop CS), and perhaps every three months or so it'll crash, but overall it's quite stable. All of the newest operating systems seem to be. But don't think of doing real business work on the Mac. There are applications available, but why should you have to buy them when they're already available on Windows for free? Like Access, Visual Basic, Publisher, etc. As I said, there are ones that do them on the Mac, but ya gotta buy 'em and from what I've heard most of them are inferior to the stuff that Microsoft makes. [/QUOTE]

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