[Thorian]

Taken from march 2003 Maximum PC

the scan sux but the answers can finally be Had

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[The Neoracle]

Well, that's all nice and good, but I still don't have to use Winblows.


And last time I check, your Quake FPS depend alot more on what Video card you have, not what processor (atleast on mac anyway cause the guy that works next to me has a 32mb video card in a Blue and White G3 and gets just as many FPS in UT as I do).


(and it should be noted, these tests were done by a magazine called "Maximum PC")


BTW, my current uptime is 14 days, what's yours?

[Quik]

I havnt shutdown in weeks.. What does uptime have to do with anything?
But I agree with everything else you said RDS. Gotta love macs

[fyrestorm]

i like macs for graphics work, they just work better for that kind of stuff

[objekt404]

RobotDeathSquad, on Feb 11 2003, 04:07 PM, said:

(and it should be noted, these tests were done by a magazine called "Maximum PC")

So we shuold trust magazines like 'Mac Design' for unbiased reports? Max PC is a good mag, they've given their share of props to the Mac (serval 9 & 9+s in the last few years) as well as routinely bashed on major PC OEMs for their shortcomings. Now they've fired their shot in the holy war.

I only wish I knew where I put the article I'm about to mention. This isn't the first time in recent months that the dual Mac has lost to a dual PC. The tests were done across games and applications (including Mac mainstays like Premier, After Effects & Photoshop). The dual PC (a Dell system no less) beat the Mac hands down (& for about 1/2 the price).

Hey, I don't have any probs w/Macs. Its the users (present company not included.) Go to any design conference or networking event & if you're a PC user you'll be looking for something to harm a Mac user w/inside of 15 minutes. They (for the most point) don't wanna hear about benchmarks, or FSB. All they want to know about now is stability (amazing that the entire argument has been pushed back that far.) Or that Windows isn't *nix yet (of course it is, remember using DOS? It's based on Csh.)

PS: Isn't ironic that since Motorola won't be making the new G* chips, Mac has to rely on IBM?

[Thorian]

The only reason I posted the above is because I saw this on the Mac website yesterday

Check out a performance evaluation using a real-world application. We compared the Power Mac G4 to a 3GHz Pentium 4-based PC, using nine commonly used actions and filters that stress overall system performance — including processor, memory, system bus and hard drive — in Photoshop.
The result? The dual 1.42GHz Power Mac G4 is 32 percent faster than the fastest PC on the market with a 3GHz Pentium 4 processor. Fact is, even the dual processor 1.25GHz Power Mac G4 system outperform the Pentium 4 by 23 percent. How, you might ask, can even the Power Mac G4 outperform a PC with a Pentium 4 processor running at more than twice the megahertz? It’s further proof that megahertz alone is a poor indicator of real-world system performance, particularly when comparing different overall system architectures. You do the math.


And noticed that they were comparing a dual processor Mac to a single processor PC. However toe to toe, the mac cant compete with a Dual Proc PC, In Photoshop or games.

Oh and Max PC gave a kick ass award to the 23 in cinima display and a kick ass award to the new I book.

[KinKyGoOsE]

RobotDeathSquad, on Feb 12 2003, 12:07 AM, said:

Well, that's all nice and good, but I still don't have to use Winblows.


And last time I check, your Quake FPS depend alot more on what Video card you have, not what processor (atleast on mac anyway cause the guy that works next to me has a 32mb video card in a Blue and White G3 and gets just as many FPS in UT as I do).


(and it should be noted, these tests were done by a magazine called "Maximum PC")


BTW, my current uptime is 14 days, what's yours?

14 Days? This is from an IRC Channel... #Gamma on Gamesnet if you dont belive me.

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[Quik]

8weeks isnt much at all. It's quite stupid to even waste time comparing uptime on machines we use for our daily shitload.

If there was any need to compare uptime, the sole purpose would be for servers

[Quik]

KinKyGoOsE, on Feb 16 2003, 05:30 PM, said:

RobotDeathSquad, on Feb 12 2003, 12:07 AM, said:

Well, that's all nice and good, but I still don't have to use Winblows.


And last time I check, your Quake FPS depend alot more on what Video card you have, not what processor (atleast on mac anyway cause the guy that works next to me has a 32mb video card in a Blue and White G3 and gets just as many FPS in UT as I do).


(and it should be noted, these tests were done by a magazine called "Maximum PC")


BTW, my current uptime is 14 days, what's yours?

14 Days? This is from an IRC Channel... #Gamma on Gamesnet if you dont belive me.

What type of CAL league you in? or u just chillin in the channel?

[KinKyGoOsE]

Quik, on Feb 17 2003, 01:58 AM, said:

KinKyGoOsE, on Feb 16 2003, 05:30 PM, said:

RobotDeathSquad, on Feb 12 2003, 12:07 AM, said:

Well, that's all nice and good, but I still don't have to use Winblows.


And last time I check, your Quake FPS depend alot more on what Video card you have, not what processor (atleast on mac anyway cause the guy that works next to me has a 32mb video card in a Blue and White G3 and gets just as many FPS in UT as I do).


(and it should be noted, these tests were done by a magazine called "Maximum PC")


BTW, my current uptime is 14 days, what's yours?

14 Days? This is from an IRC Channel... #Gamma on Gamesnet if you dont belive me.

What type of CAL league you in? or u just chillin in the channel?

Thats my freind Josh... Hes Cal-M, in CS. I play CS sometimes, but pubbing is so boring, everyone sucks.
But that is his main rig... for gaming, running SETI, and everything else. I think that 8 weeks(which is around 2 months) is pretty damn good considering he uses it everyday. And to be that stable running WinXP without SP1... My computer sure as fuck couldnt do that. SETI beats the living shit outta your computer so yeah.

[objekt404]

Now that the 'uptime' agrument has been answered, whats next? Case design? Price? OS?

[aswettla]

My PC was once "up" for 10 weeks. Then DWMX crashed it:(