[shadowblue89]

Originally posted by Skyman
Are you guys missing this link I posted completely?

Maybe so but it's very fun to have these debates between a pc and a MAC.

The 2.54GHZ P4 from Dell (Grossly over priced) beat the crap out of the MAC on all kinds of photoshop tests.

Yeah maybe it did in that one test. Adobe just recently had to rebuild Photoshop from the ground up to run on the new OS 10 for the mac. They did an OK job but they are still not taking full advantage of the CPU as Photoshop did in the old OS 9.

People complaining about PC's freezing and having problems have low quality components. There is so much competition in the PC market you can buy junk. Apple is the only one making their stuff.

Very true. Apple is very strict and hard headed when it comes to this. That is why you don't realy have any problems on the MAC.

If you would look at that bench mark it was running OSX 10, and Windows XP, both the newest OS's for both platforms.

Sorry but the latest OS for the MAC they did not use. They used OSX 10.1.5 and the latest is 10.2(massive difference).

Yeah theres less virus's for macs out there, but theres a lot less software and stuff to do on them as well. Get PC Cillin, let it update automatically and you will never have a problem.

MAC's having less software? I doubt it unless you are talking about games. The games are starting come in very fast since Apple switched to the new OSX. Other then that they have just about the same. You just have to order it through a catalog or online for most stuff. Not to mention there is a great place called sourceforge that 95% of the stuff on the site will run on the MAC.

If real world tests like photoshop filters and actions arent good performance tests then what is? How about gameing performance? Everyone knows a PC Chip will THRASH a G4. The G4's claim to fame is its Adobe performance.

This subject goes away from the whole subject. As you should know this mainly depends on your graphics card.

The positive things on the mac are that is slightly more user friendly. Dont take this the wrong way, but they are made so an idiot can use. Athough windows xp is just as good now. The UNIX based OS is a step in the right direction as well.

Thats a good boy Skyler. We will convince you yet to get a MAC and keep it for every day use.
XP as good as the MAC? never

I have had a properly build Pentium 4 system, recently threw in a 2.4GHZ CPU and I have had no ONE crash or blue screen error in 9 months.

Look at what you do for a living. Take that same machine and let a friend use it for a week. You will have problems with it afterwards.

Is the mac a good system?

Thats a no brainer. HELL YEAH IT IS

Does it have a few advantages here and there? YES. Is it faster than the PC dollar for dollar? NOT A CHANCE.

I think you should get some more rest. Your judgments have been impaired.