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Apple computers are for people who are style consciouse, and task orientated. The G5 is a wonderful piece of technology... that certainly performs well against Wintel solutions. But with that said, the lead is marginal - with AMD's Athlon 64 FX about to be released at 2Ghz this month ending, and solutions from Chipset manufacturers like VIA, Asus, NVIDIA, Samsung etc. The lead will be greatly short lived.
The Problem with Apples, before the the G4 line was the fact that they were expensive to upgrade with extremely limited hardware support.
The G4 has changed that... and the introduction of the G5 acrhitecture has taken given Apple a significant speed boost that is now comparable with todays PC technology.
BUT just how scaleable is the G5?
We all heard the G5 will ramp up to 3Ghz Q4 2004, but by then the PC architectures will be using 4Ghz and maybe even 5Ghz CPU's with 64-bit technology. [ Have you heard of
Yamhill?
]
And what about AMD's solutions for the PC line?
[ Hypertransport can be seen in the technical specifications of the G5 but AMD is nowhere mentioned ]
Also, the fact that Windows based computers are more open to attacks, due to it's substantial market share and populairty [ yes popularity due to it's massive driver and developer support ] - wouldn't Apple also suffer from this - if positions were reversed?
The way i've seen it in this forum here today, i've seen many biast arguments on MAC and Windows fans sites, and this is what i think...
Anyone can buy a PC for as little as $400, but with Apple - your looking at $$. Furthermore, Apple's support for it's own products are extremely limited [ OS9 etc ] and depend on developers like M$ for office productivity software...
Why do Apple users even bother using Windows emulators if the reason they switched from PC to MAC was for the 'experience' as some of them claim?
I think PC's are wonderful technology... and the pace at which they develop is far more staggering than MAC's - i guess thats why Apple adopted some PC architecture with the introduction of G4 and G5. Also, if i wanted to play the latest computer game like Half Life 2, Doom 3 or Duke Nukem Forever - i wouldn't be waiting Forever on the PC.
Just why do most developers produce applications for the PC if the MAC is so superior? I must admit Windows XP is a rip-off of the OS-X GUI, but it holds it's own by staying traditional and familiar.
But i'm sure your all aware that Longhorn won't be just a simple tweak of the Windows O/S. Were going to see some major changes with Longhorn, and it might just be Apple ripping off windows 3D interface when it come's to release [ although i wouldn't hold my breath as it wouldn't be so obviouse ]
I'm a PC user, and always have been... but i can see myself switching to a G5 solution very soon now. NOT because i am unhappy with my PC's - but because they have grown more than simple tools for word processing etc... to highly distracting environments with soo many functions.
I am making my switch to Apple G5 because, i believe that is where i can be more productive without the constant security updates, games and chat clients taking me astray from my work.
Why the G5?
Because switching to a G4 solution would feel, just too slow
The Problem with Apples, before the the G4 line was the fact that they were expensive to upgrade with extremely limited hardware support.
The G4 has changed that... and the introduction of the G5 acrhitecture has taken given Apple a significant speed boost that is now comparable with todays PC technology.
BUT just how scaleable is the G5?
We all heard the G5 will ramp up to 3Ghz Q4 2004, but by then the PC architectures will be using 4Ghz and maybe even 5Ghz CPU's with 64-bit technology. [ Have you heard of
Yamhill?
And what about AMD's solutions for the PC line?
[ Hypertransport can be seen in the technical specifications of the G5 but AMD is nowhere mentioned ]
Also, the fact that Windows based computers are more open to attacks, due to it's substantial market share and populairty [ yes popularity due to it's massive driver and developer support ] - wouldn't Apple also suffer from this - if positions were reversed?
The way i've seen it in this forum here today, i've seen many biast arguments on MAC and Windows fans sites, and this is what i think...
Anyone can buy a PC for as little as $400, but with Apple - your looking at $$. Furthermore, Apple's support for it's own products are extremely limited [ OS9 etc ] and depend on developers like M$ for office productivity software...
Why do Apple users even bother using Windows emulators if the reason they switched from PC to MAC was for the 'experience' as some of them claim?
I think PC's are wonderful technology... and the pace at which they develop is far more staggering than MAC's - i guess thats why Apple adopted some PC architecture with the introduction of G4 and G5. Also, if i wanted to play the latest computer game like Half Life 2, Doom 3 or Duke Nukem Forever - i wouldn't be waiting Forever on the PC.
Just why do most developers produce applications for the PC if the MAC is so superior? I must admit Windows XP is a rip-off of the OS-X GUI, but it holds it's own by staying traditional and familiar.
But i'm sure your all aware that Longhorn won't be just a simple tweak of the Windows O/S. Were going to see some major changes with Longhorn, and it might just be Apple ripping off windows 3D interface when it come's to release [ although i wouldn't hold my breath as it wouldn't be so obviouse ]
I'm a PC user, and always have been... but i can see myself switching to a G5 solution very soon now. NOT because i am unhappy with my PC's - but because they have grown more than simple tools for word processing etc... to highly distracting environments with soo many functions.
I am making my switch to Apple G5 because, i believe that is where i can be more productive without the constant security updates, games and chat clients taking me astray from my work.
Why the G5?
Because switching to a G4 solution would feel, just too slow