Comments on: Powerbook vs. Dell Mac OS X Boot

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:08:00 +0000

Okay well i have read and analyzed every comment on here everyone is wrong. Boot up time IS NOT A FACTOR IN PERFORMANCE… Some processors require more instructions during time of boot up. PowerPC processors are risc based and thus are faster then a equally spec’d pc processor. A 1.67 PowerPC G4 is equal to like a 3.2 Ghz Pentium 3 processor and don’t argue that the Pentium 4 architecture is faster then the Pentium 3 by a long shot because its not. Why don’t you look at some tests comparing a MAC VS a PC in some photoshop tests or HOW ABOUT a compression test in winrar i guarantee my 1.67 powerbook beats my 2.8 Pentium 4 laptop in all those tests =D (btw ive already tested this theory)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:20:00 +0000

Dell rules!
My XPSs would beat any of Macs! found at Freeworlddvd.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 31 May 2007 11:42:00 +0000

My Intel iMac 20″ boots about twice as fast as that!

My point is…an equally specced mac would beat the hell out of any Dell PC.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 19:39:00 +0000

I know you’ll never actually see this Xogger…but Final Cut Pro was originally a Macromedia project called KeyGrip (and later Final Cut). The lead developer was Randy Ubillos. Apple bought the technology in 1998, and unveiled Final Cut Pro in 1999…three years before the first version of Cinelerra was introduced.

Just FYI

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 24 Mar 2006 17:07:00 +0000

We don’t need to debate much here….DELL SUCKS…In fact…PCs SUCK….My MacBook can BURN any PC…Super fast start up…like 5-7 seconds…I haven’t seen any computer boot XP faster tahn about 3-4 hours….cause Microsoft BLOWS…OK…yeah…I am gonna go to the Apple store now and bask in the glory of a company that doesn’t screw the daylight out of their users…dumb brainwashed PC users

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 22:17:00 +0000

Um...where do I start?

I'm a filmmaker, and to the nitwit who claims that a liquid-cooled Athlon will beat the pants off a Quad G5, I have only this to say...prove it. In my world, we use Apple hardware because nothing...not one single GD PC...was able to process film footage anywhere near the speed or quality that Apple hardware was able to do. None. Nada. Zip. Period.

Second, Xogger, Final Cut Pro was NOT a port of Cinelerra...not even in your wildest dreams.

Do ANY of you people EVER research anyhting that comes out of your mouths?

And who gives a flying f--- about how fast OSX runs on Intel chips? IBM's new Power6 chip buries everything Intel has on the dock for the next 3 years. Apple made a hugely dumbass move by switching.

By: xogger

xogger — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 05:06:00 +0000

1 more thing.
Senario.
Apple finsihes OSX86, co-launches its own office suite based on Open Office (similar to how they base practically all their software on Open Source i.e. Shake was ported from shake for linux (http://www.digitalproducer.com/pages/nothing_real_ships_shake21.htm) then bought by apple, Final Cut Pro was a port of Cinelerra (http://heroinewarrior.com/cinelerra.php3), Safari is based on Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org/features/browser.php), not to mention the OS kernel itself is based on BSD, asnd practically every other app, even “spotlight” is just a gui for grep really, geez..) and decides to go head to head with Microsoft.
… Their is a chance it might happen cosidering Microsoft will be doing their “silver bullet” killing most of the illegal copies of XP and 2000 OS and Office trying to force those users to buy Vista, and I am sure many users will be looking for cheaper alternatives. I am really curious how Vista will compare to Tiger when the Oses are side by side, so far my trial of Vista puts it far behind Mac Os X and even most Linux desktops…
It has a popularity wave it can ride on that is its man advantage over linux. much better hardware plug-play support, and they have ok relationships with most software vendors who will more than likely already are making software for Mac anyhow.
Personally I love OSX for a desktop, and I love Linux for a server OS, For a server I prefer Linux over BSD simply because everything is freely available and most distros have repositories, all you need to do is tpye either yum install blah blah, or apt get…

By: xogger

xogger — Thu, 27 Oct 2005 04:45:00 +0000

ok first off you got to realize how the CPU itself works with the OS.
PowerPC CPUs are RISC this means it puts the wor in the hads of the OS itself, the CPU has less built in commands and their for takes more lines of code to produce the same results.
see here –> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC

However, after the OS is running it does have some advantages as the CPU only needs to focus on tasks that are sent to it not interpreting what the OS is triyng to say.
Intel to the path of muscle over brain. (seems some of you followed the same path)
Anyhow with the PowerPC chips you do get more return for the resources requiered to implement the request.
Now if you want a real comparision i think it would best to compare 2 x86 Macs 1 with windows and the other with OSX and compare those. Comparing the functions of RISC and non-RISC. Honestly I dont see right now why Apple is going with Intel over AMD but I am sure if Steve Jobs made that choice he has an ace up his sleeve.

By: fishnetstockings

fishnetstockings — Sun, 02 Oct 2005 13:41:00 +0000

Guys these are the facts:
1. Apple WILL be changing chip manufacturer to run on x86 archietecture.
2. The Linux Kernel is the best the world has to offer ANY harware.
3. Intel based harware is cheaper and more versitile to build to your own requirements.
4. Hackers will ensure hardware is never an issue over personal preference or freedom to choose - blessed is the geek!

Forget for a second the machines and consider what is approaching from the future - more choice - freedom to choose! I think this is fantastic news. I love using computers irrespectie of hardware or software.

Does anyone really think boot time is more important than choice?

Embrace the facts!

By: demitrial

demitrial — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 07:16:00 +0000

I like my mac mini. I don’t have a virus protection running in the background eating my computer power, have had this comp since june 08 05. I didn’t like windows xp and having to run a virus scan every second day coupled along with system crashes, not to mention those things called “cookies”. So thankful I am HM? Windows needs all that DDR SD RAM, and 3.4 GHZ processor power to accomodate their virus protection, this keeps their systems’ semi-stable.