intel vs. apple
Daniel Borge
dani at borgepalace.com
Tue Dec 17 12:30:53 PST 2002
>The con with PCs (although PC users in general say it is a pro)
>is that you cannot count on *a* configuration which will work and
>perfectly tuned with your OS. On paper same specs may gibe their users
>totally different experiences.
As a long time pc user, I can say yes to that answer, really, all the pc's
sold in a consumer shop will behave differently, even though it's from the
same company.
That's why with pc's, u should build one yourself, so that u know it works
with the best components. (something like an apple machine...) :)
My old pc still behaves & performes better than many socalled "brand"
pc's out there.
Inkluding a Dell my neighbour bought (a so called new Pentium 2.2 which
cannot
seems to encode films faster than mine....weird)
>I agree with you that a crap PC is by
>far more easier to be trapped into than a crap Mac: a Mac is a Mac is
>a Mac. Like it or not you know exactly what you get: no bad surprises.
>Looks like your PC is giving you a taste of a Mac experience ;-)
Not just giving, but looking more like it too :) with all the themes out
there...
>On Sunday, December 15, 2002, at 08:01 PM, PowerBook G4 Titanium List
wrote:
>> Message-ID: <3DFCB439.7030107 at borgepalace.com>
>> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 17:56:25 +0100
>> From: Daniel Borge <dani at borgepalace.com>
>> Subject: [Ti] x86 vs ppc
>>
>> Hi guys, Not to be nitpicking here, but there are big differences btw
>> winXP pc's too... Mine AMD 1200 have no problem to rip a CD and listen
>> to it at the same time (using RealPlayer One which is a great & nice
>> looking program too... hehe) and there are absoultely no "hangs" when I
>> browse on the net, download doozen files from Kazaa and watch a divx
>> film at the same time... Wounder what crap pc's u'r friends have :)
>> since my 1 & 1/2 year old pc can do all this. Daniel
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