PC VS MAC On Photoshop

[Skyman]

I guess Im walking in a little late here. Things get to be a little heated.

Chris- Start using some facts, I see things like "my 233 is faster than my neighbors 1000mhz machine" Theres no fact there. My honda is faster than my neighbors mustang. Same amount of evidence. So lets refrain from using worthless statements like that.

You saying that harddrives dont fail in Mac's yet you see it in PC's all the time? False. Guess what? They both use the same parts. Open up that G4 you'll probably find an IBM Deskstar hard drive. Reformat it and you can run it in any PC as well. BTW, the one in my dads G4 just failed after a year old.

I dont think this is a Windows VS OS10 debate, I think this is which computer is faster and can do more for the dollar. And I think its well proven that the PC blows the mac away in a dollar for dollar comparison.

Now as far as the MAC being better in photoshop, the link I posted proved the 2.53 P4 blew away a Dual 1GHZ G4. Now I dont know the changes in architecture on the G4 now at 1.25GHZ. But if clock speed is the only increase you can figure it out easily that it still will not beat the 2.53, and the new 2.8 will put more of a hurt on it.

Saying things like the graphics on your old machine is better than new PCs is 100% false.

I have used a new Dual 1GHZ G4 running OS10.2 and I have to say the graphics are awesome, the operating system looks really nice and is quite user friendly. For never using a MAC before I was able to figure it out pretty quick. Set it up to login to the Windows 2000 Domain controller and print to a couple of network printers. One problem though, we had a Laserjet 2100 and I set it up to print to that printer, with the correct driver provided in OS10 and it did no print correctly. Just a bunch of crap. It did work good with the laserjet 4550 though. Ive NEVER had a problem with a PC when selecting the correct driver. Maybe I was doing something wrong but I seriously doubt it as I setup the other printer just fine.

Citing things from apples site is fine, but obviously they are going to lean to the mac side, why wouldnt they? They are selling them arent they? Its like taking data for AMD's chips off of Intels site.

As far as Windows XP sucking? Its the best windows yet? Why, plug and play works perfectly. Yeah I agree, it wasnt perfect in previous versions of windows. But now you can plug in almost any hardware item and it will find the driver and set it up perfectly. Yeah maybe mac already had this, but it doesnt have nearly as wide an array of hardware available out there for it.

As far as crappy PC's and computers that freeze and dont work right. Think about it this way.... There are hundereds of PC parts manufacters out there. Most PC's are combined with all different brands of parts, are there going to be occasional conflicts? Yes! How many guys modify their cars with all kinds of new parts and are on here with all kinds of tuneing problems. (Not the best analogy but it gets the point across I believe)

Kell has no experience w/ Windows XP? So what, neither do you Chris. I guess this stupid "20 year old up in Ojai" doesnt know anything about it since hes been runnning it just about a year now, including beta versions that were released before it even came out for most people. I guess my location really has a lot to do with what I know about an operating system.

So is the G4 faster than a PC in photoshop? It certainly hasn't been proven to me. ALL the older tests point to the PC being faster. I will not accept a test from APPLE on this. Its like believe the cigarette companies when they say cigs dont cause cancer. Is the new dual 1.25 G4 Faster than a 2.8GHZ p4 in photoshop? I dont know, I dont have one to run the test myself, and I havn't seen a test run on it yet. I do have access to a Dual 1GHZ, but I guess those test arent accepted.

Parts failure more on PC. Not true, same components are used. The main things to fail on computers are Hard drives, and Cd-roms, and printers, and same companies make for both.

Another non-relivant interesting peice of information. Last year my dad bought a Dual G4 533, loaded with 1.5ghz of ram for just under 3500bux. Apple shipped him this Dual CPU G4 with OS9.x and it didnt even support DUAL CPU. His second CPU just wasted away while it became obsolete.

Heres something for you mac'ers to look into. A Mac buddy of mine said theres a way to load windows XP on a new G4. Is this true? I dont see how it would be possible but you never know.

Oh yea, BTW Chris, Im 21, not 20, and have had every model of IBM Compatible cpu from he 4.77MHZ 8088 on up. Dont know why my location or age had any relevence in this discussion though.

Shadow- Thats Windows 98, shall we start comparing 2 versions older copies of the MAC OS? So thats completely irrelevent.

Skyler