Good-bye Windows!

[System.S]

Yes it does Samer, it exactly does. Its tested and proved and you can research about it or even try it yourself, get to any MAC showroom, grab a macbook pro with a 2.1gh intel core duo (or any equivalent) or less or more and get a PC laptop if they got one with the same Intel processor speed (they usually got some for testing and comparing) and run the same applications at the same time, try them out, mess around and see for yourself.

MAC is a way better machine then any PC to this day and this is FACT. Programs compatibly it not an issue that can cover up for performance. and as I said, MAC is getting rapidly popular and this is increasing the wills of appz makers to make MAC versions = more MAC machines buyers = more popular, so MAC IS taking over, it was slowly and it is getting rapid.

And btw, so what if they are more programs for PC then for MAC?! How does it matter as long as you get what you want and you get it done quick and right?? What are these programs that people keep on crying for? Microsoft Paint? Flash animation makers? What? Throw these silly programs out and keep the solid you will get probably a list of 10 programs (and these will be MAC compatible by 2009) and half of these 10 are actually Windows Utilities software, to keep your windows 'safe' and run 'better'...

[System.S]

Have a small read: http://www.macvspc.info/
http://www.macvspc.info/pages/05.html

and this is a Chart of MTOPS (Millions of Theoretical Operations Per Second) compare:
Microprocessor - MTOPS
Intel 3.66 GHz Xeon (or Pentium 4) - 14,994
AMD dual 250 Opteron - 16,400
AMD quad 850 Opteron - 32,000
Apple 1.25 GHz G4 Power PC (e.g. eMac) - 17,917
Apple 1.67 GHz G4 Power PC (e.g. PowerBook) - 23,941
Apple dual 1.42 GHz G4 Power PC - 38,340
Apple 1.8 GHz G5 Power PC (e.g. iMac) - 21,753
Apple dual 2.7 GHz G5 Power PC - 60,750 <thats the bomb I use.

[e-sam]

^Patrick & Samer are right with the points you discussed. However, you cant just pick a point and generalize over it. There are many factors and as they say the devil is in the detail. So please find below an explanation & elaboration on OS X and Windows Vista on Mac & PC hardware respectively.

Security: Mac OS X beats Windows Vista (Mac 1 - Windows 0)

It's hardly surprising -- Windows' susceptibility to hackers and malware is well-documented. If your PC is connected to the Internet, there's a good chance digital nasties are forcing their way in. If not, your PC probably has the back door wide open anyway.

Microsoft is trying, though -- it has added the User Account Controls (UAC) feature, which prevents dangerous software from making changes to your PC. If Vista thinks a program could compromise its security, it'll suffer a panic attack, produce a dialogue box and tell you something bad might happen. It's effective for the most part, but the level of intrusion is infuriating. We almost hope the cybercrooks get through UAC so Microsoft has to invent a better solution.

Microsoft should be able to keep its OS safe by now, but out of the box, Vista is a sitting duck. Microsoft recommends you update its main shield, Windows Defender, every week, however with thousands of new spyware strains created every month, how can you be sure this is enough to protect your system? Virus protection is non-existent out of the box, too -- you'll have to buy that separately.

Buy an Apple PC and you can be confident of safety. It ships with all communication ports closed. Native services such as FTP access, remote login and printer sharing are all switched off by default so the chances of a hacker attack are minimal to say the least. Even without all this fancy protection, nobody's bothering to make viruses for Macs anyway, so it's the best bet for digital hypochondriacs.

Performance: Windows Vista beats Mac OS X (Mac 1 - Windows 1)

We can find a winner even without resorting to talk of clock cycles and gigaflops. PCs are definitely the place to go if you want the latest technology. PCs were privileged to the first Intel Core and Core 2 Duo CPUs, they've had access to high-speed wireless 802.11n wireless for some time, not to mention high-capacity Blu-ray and HD DVD drives.

OS X is no shrinking violet -- it excels in disciplines like video encoding and image processing, and can help you render a 3D necklace of posies really quickly.

Vista is arguably just as good at such foppish tasks, but has superior gaming abilities. Frag-happy mouse jockies are better off with a Windows PC because all the best graphics cards and games are released there before they're released for OS X. Vista looks set to extend its lead in this area even further with forthcoming DirectX 10 games.

Usability: Draw between Mac OS X and Windows Vista (Mac 2 - Windows 2)

Take Vista. It has a far better user interface than XP -- the file and application search facility is vastly improved and the cascading Start menu has been banished, but it only takes a few moments of use to discover pointless idiosyncrasies.

Microsoft constantly reminds us of how great Flip 3D is, but this feature doesn't help us find the right application window much faster than Alt-Tab did. It's very time consuming when you have many application windows to flip through, and it's in no way as efficient as OS X's Exposé feature.

Vista annoys us with its questionable stability, too. Yes, it's more robust than XP, and yes, the OS itself doesn't crash very often. But the applications that run on the OS are as prone to hang as ever.

OS X doesn't do itself many favours, though. Why, after all these years can you not resize documents or applications by clicking any corner of the window? Why does Apple subscribe to the 'mystery meat' school of navigation, where the 'minimise', 'maximise' and 'close window' buttons at the top-left of a pane all look identical until you hover over them? Why doesn't the delete key let you delete files? Why instead do we have to press the Apple plus backspace keys? Using OS X is, at times, a bit like eating in the dark.

Oh, and where are the OS X games? And why does Front Row feel like the poor, backwards relation of Windows Media Center?

We're calling this one a draw. They're just as good as each other, and in some cases just as bad -- a pox upon both your houses!

Public Relations: PC beats Mac in other words Windows Vista will beat Mac OS X since the first is shipped on PC & latter on Mac hardware. (Windows 3 - Mac 2).

There's also an element of karma to it. According to Greenpeace , PCs are greener than their Mac brethren. A Mac "scores badly on almost all criteria", and Apple "fails to embrace the precautionary principle, withholds its full list of regulated substances and provides no timelines for eliminating toxics polyvinyl chloride (PVC)".


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So the above review ended in favor of Vista but its not the holy book so you might agree or disagree but the fact lies that it has facts and reason in it to make it credible.

Personally am a games geek & top notch GFX cards runnin on high end PC will give superb gaming experience. Thats where my time is wasted & thats where part of my salary goes to. So Mac OS X will not do for me in this case.

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[samlbronkowitz]

i'm very very excited for arrival of my first Mac. 3wks baby!!!!

[Proof]

w00t!!

Just got meself a MacBook Pro 15", 2.4Ghz, 2GB Ram, 200GB HDD!! ... It'll be in my hands on Tuesday. Looking quite fcking forward to it.

[Proof]

My bad for the double post ...

I heard the new Firewire ports are shitty. The previous one's had a better build. So i've heard on the ableton forums.

[Nicoco]

^ proof pm me on a quick feedback when you get your hands on your mac. ima geting me one veeery soon

[System.S]

Proof, yes I head the ports for the fire wires are sensitive or something, unless you dont use it hardly or without delicatesse then I think everything would be sensitive... So ya, gotta take it easy while pluging in / off.

[Genesis]

Sorry I just love my Mac.... waaaaaaa3333333!!!!!