Who said the G5 is the most powerful consumer cpu out right now? They must be smokin crack and be a believer in the Word of Apple
*Disclaimer Word of Apple ranges from 80% to 100% bullsh*t regularly, believe at your own risk*.
But anyways aside from the overpriced, understyled, underpowered Mac's to the moderately powered, overstyled, overpriced, pay for your patches Mac's. Its a simple thing of choice.
Mac's are in my life evil. All of the ones I've had to use were either ungodly slow, or were more crash happy than any WinPC I have ever had to deal with. Also its a proven fact that 90% of Windows crashes are caused by craptastically made software not the OS itself. Yawn... Anyways anyone that says Mac's are tools and PC's can't match them... well as times have gone that was the truth of old but is a falsehood of now. The fact is Apple dropped the ball and became a niche product. The constant upgrades the lack of backwards compatibility between even the .1's and .2's of thier Os's blew up in there faces.
The PC world has had to deal with competition which drove prices down and technology foreward. Meanwhile Apple became very wrapped up with self love and made sure there were only 1 type of anything made for there comp's which slowed development and jacked prices up. The Pc world is slowly adopting the cool look, Apple had to make an excuse for the insane prices and stylized there comps. Also final Nail in the Coffin as for price:
Power Mac G5
$2,399.00
1.8GHz PowerPC G5
512MB DDR400 128-bit SDRAM
Expandable to 8GB SDRAM
160GB Serial ATA
SuperDrive
Three PCI-X Slots
NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
64MB DDR video memory
56K internal modem
Dell Dimension XPS
Intel Pentium 4 processor at 2.80GHz w/ 800FSB
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
512MB Dual Channel DDR SDRAM at 400MHz
17" (16.0"vis) Monitor
80GB Ultra ATA Hard Drive
16 Max DVD-ROM Drive
128MB Nvidia GeForce FX 5200
SoundBlaster Audigy 2
Logitech Z-640 Speakers
WordPerfect Office 11
Price $1,699
Now add in:
1GB(total) of pc3200 in dual channel
Radeon 9800 Pro 128mb
120GB S-ATA
56K Modem
Win Xp Pro
CD-RW Drive
You get a new total of:
$2,556
Now you get the Idea. For A few dollars more you than the basic Mac you get a PC that would whoop its a** in everything. For ALOT less you get a pc that would keep the Mac on its toes!
Alas the price argument is still as valid as the day it was born.
This thread is designed for the sole purpose of pissing off Mac users. Some of the Information Provided may be false but its the way I've had it put to me and those prices are from there respected sites. Also the G5 cannot initialize its 64 bit parts until the Mac OS supports 64bit registers. So As Of Currently the PC is More Powerful. Alas once 64bit Windows comes out Mac will have its supposed crown stolen by a lil company called AMD. So Mac is
wned by the PC yet again.
Edit: DAMN thats a long post. Lotsa :blah in it I think. Oh well good for the general :argue.