May Issue Of Maximum PC Reviews IMac
imac 800mhz, Athlon 2100+! Inspire 3d, Photoshop6.0.1, Quake3 Arena, Premere 6.0.1! In these four tests the PC was: twice as fast, three times as fast, five times as fast, and about four times as fast!!!! What humiliation for Apple and mac user's alike!!!! You can find this in the May 2002 issue of Maximum PC on page62.
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<strong>imac 800mhz, Athlon 2100+! Inspire 3d, Photoshop6.0.1, Quake3 Arena, Premere 6.0.1! In these four tests the PC was: twice as fast, three times as fast, five times as fast, and about four times as fast!!!! What humiliation for Apple and mac user's alike!!!! You can find this in the May 2002 issue of Maximum PC on page62.</strong><hr></blockquote>
and MacAddict could easily do 4 tests where the imac would see similar results over the pc. both magazines are run by a bunch of immature jackasses. I wouldn't value the opinion of either they are so bias.
great, an Athlon 2100+ is faster. that's news! Thank you rbald. As usual you really show us mac users the truth
<strong>And we see it yet again...a mag putting the iMac up against a comp that it's not even in the same market niche with...this is a CONSUMER comp people, not a pro comp. Put it up against a dual gig...shesh.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Just so you know, an Athlon XP 2100 IS a consumer machine. Just because it's one of the fastest desktop machines doesn't make it a PRO machine, this is only in the Mac world. I haven't read the review but I am imagining that they are comparing the two because the price is similar and if the price is similar than it too is a CONSUMER machine...shesh
<strong>iMacs are fun. </strong><hr></blockquote>
So are PC's. They got lots o' games
<strong>imac 800mhz, Athlon 2100+! Inspire 3d, Photoshop6.0.1, Quake3 Arena, Premere 6.0.1! In these four tests the PC was: twice as fast, three times as fast, five times as fast, and about four times as fast!!!! What humiliation for Apple and mac user's alike!!!! You can find this in the May 2002 issue of Maximum PC on page62.</strong><hr></blockquote>
i dont really care if photoshop is like .5 seconds faster on a PC. i'll find something to do in those .5 seconds.
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i dont really care if photoshop is like .5 seconds faster on a PC. i'll find something to do in those .5 seconds. </strong><hr></blockquote>
Indeed, Mac's Girl. We just got new PIV's at work to replace our SLOOOWWWW PII's. They run Win2000Pro. I hate them. For everyday stuff, they're not appreciably more utile than my LSR iMac at home. AND they're actually slower than the PII machines for some things! (For some reason, web pages do not load as fast on the new machines - it shouldn't be a function of the connection b/c that has not changed - maybe the IE version is slower?). Anyway, I'm 100% happy no matter what the magazines say.
Thoth
<strong>...How does Apple expect to gain market share when all the latest tests show Mac hardware getting whupped by Wintel hardware? ??</strong><hr></blockquote>
Maybe you didn't notice but Apple's share did increase this last quarter. Not by leaps and bounds but it did increase.
i have a $3000 pc siting in front of me and id kill to trade it with anything OS X.
The only reason that Apple's market share is a concern for me is if they don't get updated quickly enough to stay non-obosolete, or if prices get hiked up to unreasonable levels, or if Apple (yikes!) goes kaput. I wouldn't want Apple to go kaput mainly because of the Mac OS. I can live with a different machine, but Mac OS is definitely their best product in my mind. If only any computer could work with it...
<strong>Apple needs to get their performance up, this is getting ridiculous. How does Apple expect to gain market share when all the latest tests show Mac hardware getting whupped by Wintel hardware? ??</strong><hr></blockquote>
Right. Mac hardware sucks in terms of performance. They should start a loyalist program, EVERY POWER MAC FOR HALF PRICE FOR LOYAL CUSTOMERS. Current prices are ridiculous with yesterday's performance!
Statistics can be manipulated very easily, especially with computers. Take everything with a grain of salt, especially if the magazine is platform specific.
LOL! That was great! I liked the Interface Name category the best
<strong>imac 800mhz, Athlon 2100+! Inspire 3d, Photoshop6.0.1, Quake3 Arena, Premere 6.0.1! In these four tests the PC was: twice as fast, three times as fast, five times as fast, and about four times as fast!!!! What humiliation for Apple and mac user's alike!!!! You can find this in the May 2002 issue of Maximum PC on page62.</strong><hr></blockquote>
The only real humiliation is that you can fry an egg with the Atlon while the G4 is just warm. You will never see an anthlon in the I mac hemisphera.
Anyway the PPC performances are not great, but there is no technical reasons to make PPC chips as fast as the X86 chips. If Mot will spend the same amount of R&D in it than AMD or Intel the PPC chips could be faster due to the better front end of the chips : does not need to translate the archaic X86 codes.