Intel Mac comes very poor second to PPC

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Hyperspeed wrote:
Joke:

What's the difference between an Apple laptop and a PC laptop...

That makes about as much sense and jamming my testicles into a blender :roll:

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Hyperspeed wrote:

Someone enlighten me what makes OSX special and why everyone is ecstatic about iBooks...

Ever used OS X? And I don't mean clicking around the screen for 5 minutes at your local Apple dealer. Because IMHO, it's the closest to a modern Amiga you're ever going to get.

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Tomas wrote:

I dont think it does... Both BeOS and QNX came closer then...

OSX is pretty damn resource hungry compared to AmigaOS and crawls even on current hardware.

But niether of those have the same support base that MacOS has, as for the AmigaOS4 scenario, that has already been covered by Lando.

As for OS X being a resource hog and bringing modern systems to a crawl, I'm yet to see my G4 Mac mini grind to a crawl, or my kids eMac, or hang on, how about the 6 year old G4 PowerMac at work. Nope, they all run very well.

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Tomas wrote:

You must have upgraded these machines then?? OSX dosent even run smoothly on systems with 512meg ram...

Both the eMac and the mini have G4 1.42's, the mini has 1GB and the eMac has 512MB. The PowerMac has a G4 733 and 768MB RAM. I use the mini for photo manip and capturing video, the kids use the eMac for school work, internet and playing games, the PowerMac is used for video editing. All three are running OS 10.4 and I enjoy using them all. A friend is even using 10.4 on an old G3 iBook, now that is a tad slow, but the machine is even older than the PowerMac and is still quite usable. Food for thought.