If you care about other things, like support, reliability, software-hardware integration, technical elegance, world-class industrial design, and yes, aesthetics, then a Mac is worth looking at. And on the desktop, the biggest load is games, and that's more a matter of graphics card and memory bandwidth, areas where Macs compete quite handily.įrankly, if all you care about is performance and price, buy a PC. Given a choice between the iBook I have now or one that's going to burn my lap, I'll take this one, performance be damned. And for most day-to-day applications, CPU speed just isn't that big of a factor. Ultimately, though, I don't think that's the point. Right now, that's about as slow of a chip you can get, and it costs substantially less than Apple probalby pays for an equivalent G4. So a G4/800 is *maybe* equivalent to a 1.1 to 1.4 GHz P4. The estimates I've seen put the difference at 25-50%. Both the real-world benchmarks I've seen and common sense tell me that for non-altivec operations, an 800 MHz chip is liable to be slower than a 1.8 GHz chip. On the other hand, there's only so much that a CPU can do in one cycle. Clearly, megahertz for megahertz G4's are faster- Intel specifically designed P4's to squeeze every possible drop of higher clock speed out of them, even if doing so didn't increase performance that much. While I'm a Mac bigot and a proud owner of a shiney new iBook, I don't think I buy the notion that you can double the speed of a G4 to get an equivalent P4. On average, I think you could double the G4's speed to come near the intel's speed. It is probably very easy to make tests that will show that either one is better, because the processors are optimised for different purposes. The only 'advantage' of the Dell system is the floppy drive.Ībout processor speeds: it is difficult to make an accurate comparison, because the architectures differ very much. For 167 euro's you can buy 3 years of Apple-care with the iMac. Dell asks EUR 2275.- (tax included).ĭell has 3 years of on-site next business day support included.
#Macbook g4 shit windows
I paid EUR 2129.- (tax incl.)Ī Dell Precision Workstation 340, 1.8GHz Pentium 4, 256MB RAM, CD-RW/DVD-R drive, 80GB disk, 17" flat panel, speakers, Windows 2000/XP. Dell is not quality, but it is easy to configure a system on-line, so, just let's see:Ī brand new iMAc, 800GHZ G4, 256MB RAM, superdrive (CD-RW/DVD-R), 80GB disk, 17" flat panel, speakers, MacOS X 10.2. My four year old Toshiba, which currently acts as a router never failed. My colleage has almost the same laptop and has an even larger number of repairs.
This laptop, a Dell, is less than two years old and has a repair history, you really do'nt want to know about.
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