Yes, but now the mac is PC on the inside.
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QUOTE(CaptainWill @ Apr 8 2006, 07:47 PM)
Macs are personal computers. I'm also well aware of the differences in the architecture of processors. The PowerPC G5 was superior, Hz for Hz, to the Intel Pentium 4, but Apple has ditched the G5 because it's at its peak right now, and IBM can't make it any faster without overheating problems and the like. As for caches - yes I know about them, and that larger, more efficient caches speed things up considerably. Essentially, computers are vastly complex pieces of technology, with many factors determining their actual 'speed.'
The reason Apple abandoned the G5 was because it was a terribly hot processor, and was very unsuited for laptop and mini-atx enviorments (like the Mac Mini). Another very nice processor with superior architecture to the P4 is the AMD Athlon 64. Caches mean quite alot up to about 2mb and then they are not amazingly important.
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I also know how small a share of the computer market Apple has, and how good a protection against viruses that statistic is. Virus programmers want to cause widespread infection, not just 3% of the computer market.
Exactly, so if everyone uses macs, viruses are for macs, everyone uses windows, viruses are for windows. Theres no win except Linux in this case, which has viruses now that it's widely used for servers.
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However, my Mac has only crashed twice, ironically when I was trying to save in Microsoft Word(!), and is still as fast as it was when it was bought. Macs, in addition to performing self-maintenance tasks daily, weekly and monthly, have a lot of optional maintenance scripts which I run regularly.
You mean like the deframent I can run everymonth, and the virus and spyware scan(which have never turned up anything but cookies, which your Mac gets too).
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This means that an Apple computer will generally last a lot longer than a PC running Windows. I know people who have Apple II computers from the late 80s which still run like new
My Pentium @ 166mhz runs just like new, and the 2yr old macs at my school crash every day. My 750mhz Dell XPS T750r (1999) too. The only one that died was my 233mhz Cyrix MII (no-name processor) Compaq which I found on the street that experience random massive slowdown, only recognized 2/3 of its ram from the time I upgraded it, and had a hard drive faliure.
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, whereas every PC owner I know laments the fact that their 2 or 3 year-old computer is shot or runs like molasses because of massive spyware and virus infection,
I have barely gotten any spyware ever. It just depends on how much of a dumb ass you are.
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or gradual deterioration due to a lack of basic OS maintenance.
What?
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This is perhaps due to the fact that cheaper PCs attract a poor type of end-user who will run it into the ground through their technological incompetence.
And cheaper PC's are less overpriced.
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I'm bored so I'll stop. I still prefer Mac to PC, although I am aware of the perks of having a Windows-compatible PC.
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Just a note. My friend tried to overclock his G4 by a small amount and it crashed all the time. Sad. Get a AMD athlon Xp (best overclockers ever).