Ya know? I'm kind of thinking I liked it better when the PC architecture was a lot faster than the Mac. Now that the G5 has caught up (surpassed?) the speed of PC's we are going to have ALLLLLLL of these speed debates all over again. Hell, it's already begun. It started the DAY after the keynote.

Its true, I was on the PC side of the arguments last time. The Mac's WERE faster, but come on, Os 9? Thats where the mac was failing, in its baby OS. But now there is something called Os X. It crushes Windows with it's eyes shut. It's open and ready for the tweaking, where Windows is really just a pain to manipulate into your own workflow. To me, any Mac CPU will be faster than an Intel CPU, because well, an Intel CPU can't run Os X. So the G5, G4, and G3 all stomp it.

Raw CPU strength is a pointless argument these days anyways. Regular users (the kiddies on IRC and message boards maintaining the arguments) couldn't use up the CPU cycles if they tried.. There are only a couple of fields that having a super CPU is good in, 3D, Video, Audio, and so on. This isn't average user stuff. I think the argument needs to go to the software now. And Os X has got that beat. Where do you wanna edit video? On a Mac or on a PC? Have you ever tried to edit video on a PC? If not ask someone that has. Where do you wanna do Audio? On a Mac or a PC? We all know the shortcomings of the PC architecture for realtime audio anyways, soooo……

I was really hoping this argument wasn't going to come up, but as soon as the G5 was announced peolpe have been trying to nullify it. So Apple has another bad ass CPU? So what? Why do people need to put it down? Maybe its the fact that they have a BAD ASS Operating System to back it up with now. So maybe those who put down Apple should read a little more, and maybe admit that they are wrong, and tell the world how MUCH they want to run a Mac and have Photoshop AND a unix shell open on the same desktop.

Jealous?

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