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bhutocracy · 04-26-2002, 08:08 AM

it's just a pity that imacs are shit.. sure i'll give a workstation mac a few props.. but imacs are receptionists computers.. i lectured multimedia applications like flash on them for the last year and a half and they suck... badly..

also fletch you ought to know that the cpu clocks of the different manufacturers are different.. saying a 300mhz mac processor is as fast as a 700mhz intel looks impressive... but the mac one is no faster.. it's not like they had a 700mhz model at the time and they said "hey even our 300mhz one is faster".. AMD have a similar thing where a 1.8 Ghz AMD chip is equivalent to a 2.2 intel.. what you've got to look at is the price per performance ratio.. and thats where pc's stick it to macs.. sure their chips are as fast as the PC chips.. but you can build a PC far cheaper.. or for the same price but with more bang for the buck

the reason a lot of professional design places use macs is just leftover platform dependence.. macs USED to be THE design machine.. the people that run a lot of those places are still macolytes.. this will all slowly change.. just as design has slowly migrated towards PC's.. the only stronghold macs have left is the video arena... at my last job we had an avid system with a mac g3 that had an ice card - 10 g3 cpu's in one graphics chip.. and it kicked ass.. but all it's going to take is the cost effectiveness of of pc's or the NT/2000 based SGI's to shine through and that will be another area lost to pc's.. when it comes down to it.. the platform doesn't mean shit.. sure i've loathed every macos up to X but they're still decent machines.. the fact is that with most programs being multi-platform these days (hell mac is finally catching up in 3d) it doesn't matter whether you see a windows or a mac logo on startup.. it's whether you got as much grunt for your money to get the most work done in as short as time as possible..

04-26-2002, 08:08 AM
bhutocracy Not making A Comeback Industry Role: Join Date: Dec 2001 Posts: 10,218	it's just a pity that imacs are shit.. sure i'll give a workstation mac a few props.. but imacs are receptionists computers.. i lectured multimedia applications like flash on them for the last year and a half and they suck... badly.. also fletch you ought to know that the cpu clocks of the different manufacturers are different.. saying a 300mhz mac processor is as fast as a 700mhz intel looks impressive... but the mac one is no faster.. it's not like they had a 700mhz model at the time and they said "hey even our 300mhz one is faster".. AMD have a similar thing where a 1.8 Ghz AMD chip is equivalent to a 2.2 intel.. what you've got to look at is the price per performance ratio.. and thats where pc's stick it to macs.. sure their chips are as fast as the PC chips.. but you can build a PC far cheaper.. or for the same price but with more bang for the buck the reason a lot of professional design places use macs is just leftover platform dependence.. macs USED to be THE design machine.. the people that run a lot of those places are still macolytes.. this will all slowly change.. just as design has slowly migrated towards PC's.. the only stronghold macs have left is the video arena... at my last job we had an avid system with a mac g3 that had an ice card - 10 g3 cpu's in one graphics chip.. and it kicked ass.. but all it's going to take is the cost effectiveness of of pc's or the NT/2000 based SGI's to shine through and that will be another area lost to pc's.. when it comes down to it.. the platform doesn't mean shit.. sure i've loathed every macos up to X but they're still decent machines.. the fact is that with most programs being multi-platform these days (hell mac is finally catching up in 3d) it doesn't matter whether you see a windows or a mac logo on startup.. it's whether you got as much grunt for your money to get the most work done in as short as time as possible..