Apple or PC?

[djhead]

I was mainly concerned with pure performance. Firepod, Cubase LE, and portability.....GO!!!!!

 

[Mo-Kay]

Pizza! right?

 

[djhead]

I hate you

 

[djhead]

I was told by my mac lovin pops that FSB was what I need to be concerned with. If thats true, why would I pick a 667 Mhz FSB processor (Mac) over a P4 or AMD 64 with 800+ any thoughts?

 

[big country]

smug is in the air

some, not all mac people are computer snobs

 

[Supercreep]

If I had to start all over again I'd use a mac.


However, I like building and tweaking pcs. Go figure.

 

[T.J.Hooker]

This is definitely a subject that has been beat to death. I run mac with MOTU hardware, and Motu digital performer. It's easy to use and rock solid.
T.

 

[dgatwood]

I was told by my mac lovin pops that FSB was what I need to be concerned with. If thats true, why would I pick a 667 Mhz FSB processor (Mac) over a P4 or AMD 64 with 800+ any thoughts?

In my experience, most stuff involving GUIs or real-time operation (or both) performs better on dual-core or dual-CPU systems than on single CPU systems that are twice as fast. YMMV, depending on the app in question, of course.

I would expect the P4 to get its backside kicked by the Core Duo. It has too long a pipeline and only a single core. (HT helps, but it really isn't equivalent to a second full processor core.)

I don't know much about the AMD 64 X2 chips, so I won't attempt to answer. It may well depend on whether you have a 64-bit app since the current crop of Core Duos aren't 64-bit.

 

[noisewreck]

IMACs' "start" at $1300. G5's start at $2000

You can get a nice PC for quite a bit less than $1300. You can get a Dell with 1 gb memory and 17" LCD for less than $600.

That's a crock of BS. Go to Dell's site and configure it to something close to where the Mac would be and see the price climb

 

[noisewreck]

with PCs you have the choice of looooads of spare parts, anything to suit your needs (not the case with Mac), you have the choice of building your own etc etc.

That may be the case with the desktops, but not with the laptops.

Actually, come to think of it, nowdays even with the desktops, since Macs use IDE and SATA, standard RAM, PCI and PCIe slots... with motherboard and processors though... and power supplies you have a point... it's a toss up.