Hey guys, for some reason it says forum is closed for posting in the MAC thread. I had an eager question to ask... well maybe you guys can help me here:
I realize that the specs on Macs are so low. Like I wanted to buy a MAC until I saw the low specs of a 1.8ghz iMac G5. It's very expensive to pay that much for a 1.8ghz, so why not buy a higher end Pentium 4 PC that you can get for 3.0ghz at the same price? And you can probably get more Ram with that money. Thanks guys, please let me know.
Hmm, well also Apple are moving over to intel next year so the machines price will drop a fair bit..
Note, you make one assumption, that a 1.8ghz G5 has the same computing power as a 1.8ghz P4. Clock speed isn't really the only thing that matters with computers, for instance a G5 has the altavec extentions (there spost to be damn good at vector processing) while the p4's do not.
I would say that a 3.2 ghz p4 would be a faster machine, But really unless your considering running Linux the construction of the operating system will have a large impact on speed as well.
Welcome to the forums, think this thread is in the wrong section though :)
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