Why is Mac so much less machine?
Why is it that Mac's require less hardware to run better than Windows? Here's the specs of a TOTL iMac:
20-inch widescreen LCD
1.25GHz PowerPC G4
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
64MB DDR video memory
256MB DDR333 SDRAM
80GB Ultra ATA hard drive
SuperDrive
Apple Pro Speakers
AirPort Extreme Ready
Bluetooth Option
And here's mine:
17-inch LCD
2.52 GHz
?
?
1GB RAM
120GB HD
CD-ROM Drive
CD/DVD-R/W Drive
Altec Lansing Speakers (5 Regular, one Subwoofer)
Network Ready
?
And yet it still runs like crap. It can't be all Window's fault, can it?
20-inch widescreen LCD
1.25GHz PowerPC G4
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
64MB DDR video memory
256MB DDR333 SDRAM
80GB Ultra ATA hard drive
SuperDrive
Apple Pro Speakers
AirPort Extreme Ready
Bluetooth Option
And here's mine:
17-inch LCD
2.52 GHz
?
?
1GB RAM
120GB HD
CD-ROM Drive
CD/DVD-R/W Drive
Altec Lansing Speakers (5 Regular, one Subwoofer)
Network Ready
?
And yet it still runs like crap. It can't be all Window's fault, can it?
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Originally posted by psgamer0921
Why is it that Mac's require less hardware to run better than Windows? Here's the specs of a TOTL iMac:
20-inch widescreen LCD
1.25GHz PowerPC G4
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
64MB DDR video memory
256MB DDR333 SDRAM
80GB Ultra ATA hard drive
SuperDrive
Apple Pro Speakers
AirPort Extreme Ready
Bluetooth Option
And here's mine:
17-inch LCD
2.52 GHz
?
?
1GB RAM
120GB HD
CD-ROM Drive
CD/DVD-R/W Drive
Altec Lansing Speakers (5 Regular, one Subwoofer)
Network Ready
?
And yet it still runs like crap. It can't be all Window's fault, can it?
Sure it can.
Try Fedora on a PC and you'll love it.
Dobby.
The graphics of WinXP are sterile, yes, but at least they're a step up from 2000.
The problem with Windows, though, is that it's an exceedingly large monolithic kernel maintained by coders who come out of college as CS prima donnas, and are difficult to manage.
I know any Mac should be compared to any PC at any time, it it is a poor excuse to say "they're being updated soon" but I wanted to let you know.
The updates are already twenty days overdue!
Check to see if you are using swap, my box regularly runs at triple RAM size for active VM ( 768ram, 2gb page file ). When this happens your system will crawl. If so, get more RAM/stop whatever you are doing.
Programs like PS eat memory for breakfast.
The code in OS X is much cleaner than Windows. After all... OS X has only been around for a few years (albeit based on an OS a bit older than that). There's so much crap in the Windows kernel now... I doubt anyone knows what some of it is or does... so they just leave it there. Microsoft would need to do what Apple did and come out with a ground up new OS. And anything new from Microsoft is just so chock full of proprietary this, DRM that, activation this, copy protection that... that you wouldn't want it anyway.
Your PC should be running smoothly with the specs you provided. Do you have these performace problems in general... when running certain applications? What apps do you have running on start up?
Originally posted by Joey
They've had to backpedal and explain that the MHz aren't everything now that their Centrino Pentium M notebooks are out... all at much lower MHz then the previous Pentium notebooks.. but they out perform them.
are you serious????? that's awesome!!!!!! holy shit, that is so damn funny!
As part of this whole move they recently changed from using family numbers ( PIII, PIV etc ) with clock speed, to using a model number.
Celerons are the 300 series, all the way up to Pentium Ms, which are the 700 series. Just lke buying a BMW
Originally posted by mmmpie
Defrag your drive. I see windows machines with 50%+ fragmentation quite regularly.
Check to see if you are using swap, my box regularly runs at triple RAM size for active VM ( 768ram, 2gb page file ). When this happens your system will crawl. If so, get more RAM/stop whatever you are doing.
Programs like PS eat memory for breakfast.
Now why is it Macs don't require disk defragging and other maintenance that PCs require?
Is there any maintenance for macs that I should know about?
Originally posted by Soire
Now why is it Macs don't require disk defragging and other maintenance that PCs require?
Is there any maintenance for macs that I should know about?
Go to disk utility, select your hard drive and repair disk permissions. I do this once a week but suggest you do it at least once a month.
Originally posted by Soire
Now why is it Macs don't require disk defragging and other maintenance that PCs require?
Is there any maintenance for macs that I should know about?
NT doesnt seem to have very good placement algorithms when saving to disk. I was checking out a machine last night, only a couple of months old, HD is half full ( 40 out of 80 ), and it has 35% fragmentation. Thats just nuts.
If you leave your Mac on overnight ( but not asleep ) it will run regular tasks to tidy up things like log files. If you dont then you'll need to do it manually. Cocktail [?] is one program to help with this.
OS X looks like it has good file placement, and Panther has automatic defragging, so it doesnt seem to be a big issue.
Finally, OS X runs well on slow machines because there arent any faster machines for the developers to use. You'll note that it is RAM hungry, because it was feasible for slow macs to have lots of RAM. If Apple had been behind on the RAM game as well OS X would run a lot leaner.
Be had an interesting policy when they were developing BeOS. Developers had low end machines, rather than the fastest mostest hardware. So that the system would be optimised to run well with less RAM and slower cpus. It really paid off ( well, except for them going out of business, but really good for users ).