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Originally posted by Fletch XXX
If pentium came out with a new chip or line etc PC and everyone else alike would post here about it.
Mac releases G5 and its not worthy of a post on this board?
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yeah, but if amd and intel brought out a new system and blatantly weaved a web of lies about it, the PC followers would tear them apart. not so with the general mac crowd. for the most part, they believe in it so much that there is - as that article stated - nothing you can do to convince them otherwise. jobs could release a firewire 800 log in a plastic bag and some of them would think it's the best thing since bread and butter.
i don't hear too many pc people say "you're a complete waste of life fucktard" when someone says the pc isn't worthy or not fast enough. no reason to attach someone's character about factual items of computer hardware. the fanatcism of some mac people is crazy.
you guys aren't that way, thank god
i still think macs are very cool devices, and if i can get over the utter disappointment of what mac did, might buy one. apple made some very courageous claims, some very blatantly incorrect claims, and some very unlikely scenarios (as to them being the first to release things such as 2ghz 64bit machine... amd should be shipping before the g5 hits the market, and is already shipping the 1.8).
although now that the g5 is basically a stripped down opteron... well, yeah
as far as 64 vs 32... that's kinda what i was getting at, that the hardware in the opteron is built such that it can run 32bit processes without the need of a software-type emulator, wether that be by the nature they are building the 64bit architechture, or they leave the 32bit capable stuff (or perhaps hardware-based translators) in the chip.