Question about Apple Mac and PeeCee

[amiga1260]

After Commodore had disappeared, I considered to buy a Mac, but instead I bought a PC.

Apple makes beautiful designs, but the price is very high for the configuration you can get. For the same amount money you can get a faster PC configuration, more features and more possibility to upgrade your hardware. Even other manufactures building whole PC's en notebooks also have beautiful designs.

[tone007]

Wow now thats a debate....but if I ask you this - mobo for mobo, OS for OS, processor for processor, with same challenging benchmark tests run on both systems (the mac & peecee) which one would come out trumps.....

To answer this one, same hardware, same performance.  The only thing that might be a variable is how an app is coded for the particular OS. At that point it's a tossup.  Benchmark apps are generally good at isolating particular components of your system, so if you test identical CPUs on a Mac and PC, the results should be pretty close.

You can run Windows on an Intel Mac, since the Intel Macs use the same hardware as PCs, it shouldn't run much differently than on a PC with similar specs.

[bloodline]

For me OSX is the big win with Apple. I use Mac for live music work, it's more stable has less issues and better (music) software support. Trying to use WinXP in an environmen as demanding as a live music performance was horrible.

The old PPC Macs were very expensive for what they were, cost a lot and very underpowered... The new intel Macs are as powerful and as reliable as any brand name PC.

Before I moved to Mac, I spent quite a bit of time in the Apple store trying the machine out to make sure it met my needs... The OS felt a bit weird for about 30min as I had been using Windows for 5 years at that point... But the OS is more Amiga like in operation, and iLife gives you a complete productivity suite for free