no S-ATA, no FireWire 400, no FireWire 800, no PCI-X, no digital audio I/O, etc.
$3520 Apple system
2x2000 MHz PPC 970
1 GB PC3200 RAM installed (8 DIMM slots)
160 GB S-ATA HDD
DVD±RW drive
integrated 6-channel audio with TosLink in/out
ATI Radeon 9800 128 MB
integrated gigabit ethernet
600W PSU
two 64-bit/100 MHz PCI-X slots, one 64-bit/133 MHz PCI-X slot
FireWire 400
FireWire 800
Despite the Quadro4 branding, the nVidia card is crap. You think you can safely run two 1.8 GHz Opterons on a 460W PSU? Heh. No FW, no S-ATA, PC2700 and a smaller HDD? $390 premium? I'll be conservative and call it a draw.
Troll on, dude.
I can just change the prices you posted and say otherwise... Of course i would need evidence, but i wouldnt know what every company price of a machine, obviously you do... But no evidence? This is what I call, bias.
While PC users are fumbling to make their hardware communicate. I already have 4 prints ready for an assignment that is on deadline, instead of pulling my hair out.
Once again we are not comparing with Intel, even though you wish so much to be as so...
We are comparing 64-bit PowerPC and the next generation of X86, whatever the fundamental architecture has been decided to be named. This discussion pertains to Apple, IBM, and Motorola (to an odd extent) on one side of the bench, and the proponents of the other, AMD, Intel, and Microsoft. If you really had beef with the G5, you should've gone straight to IBM, the chip fabricators, but you decided to take it up with Apple, a software company. So let's just stop being equivocal.
I can just change the prices you posted and say otherwise... Of course i would need evidence, but i wouldnt know what every company price of a machine, obviously you do... But no evidence? This is what I call, bias.
It's not BS because you're ignorant. Just got to www.boxxtech.com and store.apple.com and configure the exact systems yourself.
EDIT: I'll save you the trouble considering the incompetence you've already displayed.
I am not here to hate or like, simply to make a point... And i read no disclaimer saying that you have to like Macs to join this forum.
First of all, if you were "not here to hate or like, simply to make a point," then you wouldn't be so rude and angry with your posts. If you wanted to prove a point here you'd get much farther if you simply stated your reasoning and the facts to support it.
Secondly, I'd like to direct you to this quote from my previous post:
Quote:
Originally posted by Luca Rescigno
You don't have to be a Mac user to post here and technically you don't have to even like Macs...
I said specifically that you needn't be a Mac user to post. You don't even have to like Macs to post. I know a number of PC-only users post here, sometimes they say they want to switch to a Mac and sometimes they don't. But at least they show a little respect, and are polite.
While PC users are fumbling to make their hardware communicate. I already have 4 prints ready for an assignment that is on deadline, instead of pulling my hair out.
Yes now start with stereotypes that PCs break down every sec. Obviously, OS X never crashes or screws up right?
But do I care what you will say on this? Can you really assume whos personal pc is more stable than whose?
But what I can say is that Windows OS has been ported to appliances, machines and handhelds.
While the OS X has only been for desktop computers. I think that says enough.
First of all, if you were "not here to hate or like, simply to make a point," then you wouldn't be so rude and angry with your posts. If you wanted to prove a point here you'd get much farther if you simply stated your reasoning and the facts to support it.
Secondly, I'd like to direct you to this quote from my previous post:
I said specifically that you needn't be a Mac user to post. You don't even have to like Macs to post. I know a number of PC-only users post here, sometimes they say they want to switch to a Mac and sometimes they don't. But at least they show a little respect, and are polite.
I respect what you have to say, that is why I am responding... no?
Not a stereotype, EXPERIENCE. I was PC user for years, I never used a Mac until this year. All the PCs I've had were constantly bugging out. All the PCs my friends had were also bugging out, constant problems due to MS OS. Sorry, but have you ever had extensive use of a Mac. It is so friggin easy. I hardly ever have communication problems, if I do I just make sure I didn't accidently unplug my printer or scanner.
If you're going to be an ass at least be funny and entertaining.
Not a stereotype, EXPERIENCE. I was PC user for years, I never used a Mac until this year. All the PCs I've had were constantly bugging out. All the PCs my friends had were also bugging out, constant problems due to MS OS. Sorry, but have you ever had extensive use of a Mac. It is so friggin easy. I hardly ever have communication problems, if I do I just make sure I didn't accidently unplug my printer or scanner.
If you're going to be an ass at least be funny and entertaining.
I can completely say otherwise, but would you believe me? So why would I believe you?
If there is a way you can prove your little hypothesis that all PCs are unstable, than I will believe you.
Yes now start with stereotypes that PCs break down every sec. Obviously, OS X never crashes or screws up right?
But do I care what you will say on this? Can you really assume whos personal pc is more stable than whose?
But what I can say is that Windows OS has been ported to appliances, machines and handhelds.
While the OS X has only been for desktop computers. I think that says enough.
Obviously, Windows is so pervasive in the tech market that even if the Macintosh platform was better for handheld devices and the like, it wouldn't get very far.
I will say that Windows XP is quite stable. I used it exclusively for about a month earlier this year. The main difference wasn't that it crashed more often, but that it crashed harder. I don't know how Windows handles applications/processes, but whenever an application would freeze up it would take forever to end the task. I would click End Task many times but it usually took a couple minutes. My Mac has only very rarely given me a problem like that. Usually, when programs crash on OS X, they can be ended quickly and cleanly.
"I don't need to walk around in circles, walk around in circles walk around in..."
I didn't say all, I said my experience. Sure I'll believe you've good experiences on PCs, wish I could say the same for my friends and I. My friends believe it or not are still PC users. Get burned once... but burned twice thrice... The fact is MS puts out a shit OS IMO
Comments
Originally posted by Eugene
$3910 BoxxTech system
2x1800 MHz Opteron
1 GB PC2700 RAM installed (4 DIMM slots)
120 GB ATA HDD
DVD±RW drive
integrated 6-channel audio
NVidia Quadro4 380 XGL 64 MB
integrated gigabit ethernet
460W PSU
five 32-bit/33 MHz PCI slots
no S-ATA, no FireWire 400, no FireWire 800, no PCI-X, no digital audio I/O, etc.
$3520 Apple system
2x2000 MHz PPC 970
1 GB PC3200 RAM installed (8 DIMM slots)
160 GB S-ATA HDD
DVD±RW drive
integrated 6-channel audio with TosLink in/out
ATI Radeon 9800 128 MB
integrated gigabit ethernet
600W PSU
two 64-bit/100 MHz PCI-X slots, one 64-bit/133 MHz PCI-X slot
FireWire 400
FireWire 800
Despite the Quadro4 branding, the nVidia card is crap. You think you can safely run two 1.8 GHz Opterons on a 460W PSU? Heh. No FW, no S-ATA, PC2700 and a smaller HDD? $390 premium? I'll be conservative and call it a draw.
Troll on, dude.
I can just change the prices you posted and say otherwise... Of course i would need evidence, but i wouldnt know what every company price of a machine, obviously you do... But no evidence? This is what I call, bias.
Originally posted by SS Manic Devlin
While apple users, are forced to get what steve jobs decides to sell with the cost of his choosing.
Because I obviously can't got to dell.com and buy my own PC, or handpick components from newegg, googlegear, and Fry's to build my own.
Originally posted by SS Manic Devlin
Once again we are not comparing with Intel, even though you wish so much to be as so...
We are comparing 64-bit PowerPC and the next generation of X86, whatever the fundamental architecture has been decided to be named. This discussion pertains to Apple, IBM, and Motorola (to an odd extent) on one side of the bench, and the proponents of the other, AMD, Intel, and Microsoft. If you really had beef with the G5, you should've gone straight to IBM, the chip fabricators, but you decided to take it up with Apple, a software company. So let's just stop being equivocal.
Originally posted by SS Manic Devlin
I can just change the prices you posted and say otherwise... Of course i would need evidence, but i wouldnt know what every company price of a machine, obviously you do... But no evidence? This is what I call, bias.
It's not BS because you're ignorant. Just got to www.boxxtech.com and store.apple.com and configure the exact systems yourself.
EDIT: I'll save you the trouble considering the incompetence you've already displayed.
boxxtechsystem.pdf
applesystem.pdf
Originally posted by SS Manic Devlin
I am not here to hate or like, simply to make a point... And i read no disclaimer saying that you have to like Macs to join this forum.
First of all, if you were "not here to hate or like, simply to make a point," then you wouldn't be so rude and angry with your posts. If you wanted to prove a point here you'd get much farther if you simply stated your reasoning and the facts to support it.
Secondly, I'd like to direct you to this quote from my previous post:
Originally posted by Luca Rescigno
You don't have to be a Mac user to post here and technically you don't have to even like Macs...
I said specifically that you needn't be a Mac user to post. You don't even have to like Macs to post. I know a number of PC-only users post here, sometimes they say they want to switch to a Mac and sometimes they don't. But at least they show a little respect, and are polite.
Originally posted by LiquidR
While PC users are fumbling to make their hardware communicate. I already have 4 prints ready for an assignment that is on deadline, instead of pulling my hair out.
Yes now start with stereotypes that PCs break down every sec. Obviously, OS X never crashes or screws up right?
But do I care what you will say on this? Can you really assume whos personal pc is more stable than whose?
But what I can say is that Windows OS has been ported to appliances, machines and handhelds.
While the OS X has only been for desktop computers. I think that says enough.
Originally posted by Luca Rescigno
First of all, if you were "not here to hate or like, simply to make a point," then you wouldn't be so rude and angry with your posts. If you wanted to prove a point here you'd get much farther if you simply stated your reasoning and the facts to support it.
Secondly, I'd like to direct you to this quote from my previous post:
I said specifically that you needn't be a Mac user to post. You don't even have to like Macs to post. I know a number of PC-only users post here, sometimes they say they want to switch to a Mac and sometimes they don't. But at least they show a little respect, and are polite.
I respect what you have to say, that is why I am responding... no?
Originally posted by SS Manic Devlin
But what I can say is that Windows OS has been ported to appliances, machines and handhelds.
While the OS X has only been for desktop computers. I think that says enough.
Wow, that's such astonishing logic!
I think in Devlin's case, mental age = post count.
Originally posted by Cake
Wow, that's such astonishing logic!
I think in Devlin's case, mental age = post count.
He's growing at such a rapid pace...
Originally posted by Cake
Wow, that's such astonishing logic!
I think in Devlin's case, mental age = post count.
Is this how mac users respect?
If you're going to be an ass at least be funny and entertaining.
Originally posted by LiquidR
Not a stereotype, EXPERIENCE. I was PC user for years, I never used a Mac until this year. All the PCs I've had were constantly bugging out. All the PCs my friends had were also bugging out, constant problems due to MS OS. Sorry, but have you ever had extensive use of a Mac. It is so friggin easy. I hardly ever have communication problems, if I do I just make sure I didn't accidently unplug my printer or scanner.
If you're going to be an ass at least be funny and entertaining.
I can completely say otherwise, but would you believe me? So why would I believe you?
If there is a way you can prove your little hypothesis that all PCs are unstable, than I will believe you.
Originally posted by SS Manic Devlin
I am not here to hate or like, simply to make a point... And i read no disclaimer saying that you have to like Macs to join this forum.
ROFL!!!!
Its not hard to figure out that u just want to down play the G5 because your a mac hater...
also... soapbox is liying.
There are plenty of sites with benchmarks that say the G5 is the fastest, and vice versa.
But if the 1.6Ghz G5 is about as fast as a 2.4-2.8GHz PC then think about the dual 2Ghz model!
Originally posted by SS Manic Devlin
Yes now start with stereotypes that PCs break down every sec. Obviously, OS X never crashes or screws up right?
But do I care what you will say on this? Can you really assume whos personal pc is more stable than whose?
But what I can say is that Windows OS has been ported to appliances, machines and handhelds.
While the OS X has only been for desktop computers. I think that says enough.
Obviously, Windows is so pervasive in the tech market that even if the Macintosh platform was better for handheld devices and the like, it wouldn't get very far.
I will say that Windows XP is quite stable. I used it exclusively for about a month earlier this year. The main difference wasn't that it crashed more often, but that it crashed harder. I don't know how Windows handles applications/processes, but whenever an application would freeze up it would take forever to end the task. I would click End Task many times but it usually took a couple minutes. My Mac has only very rarely given me a problem like that. Usually, when programs crash on OS X, they can be ended quickly and cleanly.
Originally posted by SS Manic Devlin
Is this how mac users respect?
I can't respect a troll.
You call Mac users biased, yet you can't admit bias on your part.
Did you happen to check the link that Eugene posted regarding Opteron vs G5 prices?
And saying that the G5 is no better than the G4 is just silly.
The architecture of the PowerMac G5 is overwhelming better than the G4.
And don't place too much emphesis on the G5 benchmarks that are coming out - the real test will be when Panther is released.
The G5's with OS X 10.3 will rock. 10.2.7 is only an incremental update until Panther is debuts.
I bet his never even used one
LOL
I didn't say all, I said my experience. Sure I'll believe you've good experiences on PCs, wish I could say the same for my friends and I. My friends believe it or not are still PC users. Get burned once... but burned twice thrice... The fact is MS puts out a shit OS IMO
Please do not feed the trolls.
Thanks.
-The Man (keeping you down)
O wait I already did