Macbook And...

[codeninja]

The recently announced MacBook makes me wonder about two things because

1. Apple claimed that it runs 4 times faster than PowerBook.
How about all those claim of PowerPC being superior to x86 clock frequency to frequency? They've been lying, then?

2. Apparent super performance of OS X on Intel chip compared to WinXP.
I guess, money is not only thing that MS is hogging. Win Vista will be a worse resource hogger that will probably need a 3Ghz processor with 4GB memory to emulate what OS X does on much less powerful PCs. So MS really suck at making OS?

 

[spray]

my friend

there are lies, damn lie and statistics

you can make experiments show whatever you want

though it does seem that apple are now accepting that they were lying

 

[Rico]

The recently announced MacBook makes me wonder about two things because

1. Apple claimed that it runs 4 times faster than PowerBook.
How about all those claim of PowerPC being superior to x86 clock frequency to frequency? They've been lying, then?

Pretty much, although these chips are dual-core (two processors) and somewhat more refined than your average x86.

2. Apparent super performance of OS X on Intel chip compared to WinXP.
I guess, money is not only thing that MS is hogging. Win Vista will be a worse resource hogger that will probably need a 3Ghz processor with 4GB memory to emulate what OS X does on much less powerful PCs. So MS really suck at making OS?

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OS X has always ran faster on less hardware. Vista/Avalon is an attempt to emulate the graphical features on OS X, and copies are generally not perfect.

 

[moz]

Win Vista will be a worse resource hogger that will probably need a 3Ghz processor with 4GB memory to emulate what OS X does on much less powerful PCs. So MS really suck at making OS?

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Microsoft will make an OS that works just now on the current hardware but better on future hardware because of the progress in moores law.

 

[Hanz™]

dont by m$ windws bec0z bill gatezz runs like a girrl.

 

[Axeman]

Well... I've used PCs for 14 years now, and I switched to Macs a year ago.

I've never had to reformat and reload OS X, and it runs as fast now as when I got it. it's a 1.8Ghz G5 and it still runs faster than my Athlon 3000+ PC. And, yes, I know what I'm doing with PCs, I've been a desktop engineer in the past, so it aint slower cos of spyware, viruses, trojans, or bad configuration.

I still have no probs with PCs though - my mac still cant play the damn good games that my PC can