World of warcraft isn't a high spec game. Try the same thing with Doom3. Oh... do they even HAVE doom3 for the mac? No. Didn't think so. Far Cry maybe? No? Well that's been out for nearly a year now. Bleeding edge of games that mac is on eh?
I'll bet you paid about double what you did for the dell as well.
I've used macs for lengthy periods and I have heard constantly from those indoctrinated into the Cult of Jobs about how much faster the mac hardware is and how much better the operating system is... And I have always had to raise an eyebrow and refrain from smacking them silly. Excepting the early days when the mac had itself a nice niche market with it's graphics capabilities, it's NEVER outperformed the PC on anything but meaningless benchmarks. Real world usability tests and speed tests with anything other than an adobe product (and I can't even guarantee that any more) that was optimized really well for the PPC architecture were less than stellar and quite underwhelming in most cases.
I've NEVER found anything about a mac to really enjoy or like. The hardware is pretty. It's got a nice artsy design nowadays. But usability, stability, compatibility, software selection... Forget it.
If I get one, I'll cringe and apologize to whomever I buy it from, feel foolish for doing it... And it'll just be so I can sucker mac shareware buyers into grabbing a game I write with bmax, because I will know that they will buy it because they have so few choices when it comes to games.
Kanati
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hahaha... As I was writing this a friend happened to glance at it and it turns out that even Adobe stated last year that the claims that Apple had in their benchmarks of their 1.4ghz PPC chip being able to outperform (by 30% or so) the fastest Intel chip on the market (at the time just over 3ghz I think) were false. And Adobe even went to far at one point to have a "Works best on PCs" page on their photoshop site. It's pretty bad when even your longtime partner in crime Adobe turns and says "What ARE you smokin' Steve? Your hardware isn't up to snuff!"
I'd not have a problem at all if Mac afficianado's would accept the fact that they have good, capable, but behind the curve systems I wouldn't bite back... But when they state they are the BEST... I can barely contain my laughter.
I'll bet you paid about double what you did for the dell as well.
I've used macs for lengthy periods and I have heard constantly from those indoctrinated into the Cult of Jobs about how much faster the mac hardware is and how much better the operating system is... And I have always had to raise an eyebrow and refrain from smacking them silly. Excepting the early days when the mac had itself a nice niche market with it's graphics capabilities, it's NEVER outperformed the PC on anything but meaningless benchmarks. Real world usability tests and speed tests with anything other than an adobe product (and I can't even guarantee that any more) that was optimized really well for the PPC architecture were less than stellar and quite underwhelming in most cases.
I've NEVER found anything about a mac to really enjoy or like. The hardware is pretty. It's got a nice artsy design nowadays. But usability, stability, compatibility, software selection... Forget it.
If I get one, I'll cringe and apologize to whomever I buy it from, feel foolish for doing it... And it'll just be so I can sucker mac shareware buyers into grabbing a game I write with bmax, because I will know that they will buy it because they have so few choices when it comes to games.
Kanati
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hahaha... As I was writing this a friend happened to glance at it and it turns out that even Adobe stated last year that the claims that Apple had in their benchmarks of their 1.4ghz PPC chip being able to outperform (by 30% or so) the fastest Intel chip on the market (at the time just over 3ghz I think) were false. And Adobe even went to far at one point to have a "Works best on PCs" page on their photoshop site. It's pretty bad when even your longtime partner in crime Adobe turns and says "What ARE you smokin' Steve? Your hardware isn't up to snuff!"
I'd not have a problem at all if Mac afficianado's would accept the fact that they have good, capable, but behind the curve systems I wouldn't bite back... But when they state they are the BEST... I can barely contain my laughter.