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11/05/2004, 1:00am, EST

Friday, November 5th

Columnist on Mac vs. PC performance, pricing, more

LinuxInsider columnist Paul Murphy has written a detailed article comparing the pricing, power, and software availability for the Mac and PC platforms. "Compare Apple's dual G5 to the top of the line Dell dual Xeon Precision workstation and the PC has most of the features but costs a thousand bucks more than the Mac." He also says, "[I] discovered that not only are Macs cheaper than PCs once you upgrade the PCs to rough comparability, but the PC line is narrower than Apple's." However, he cautions: "developers selling a PC product into the Macintosh market generally seem to put little or no effort into understanding the Macintosh hardware. In fact, an easy majority apparently opts for little more than use of a Macintosh cross compiler on code that's been extensively optimized for Windows on x86."


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preaching to the choir...
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11/05, 1:05am, EST
oh yeah... first post!
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yeah yeah yeah... i know
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11/05, 1:13am, EST
what is the point of doing this review? this kind of review is everywhere.
save your time, and do something else.
we all know macs are good (if you are mac user), so stop this kind of rubbish.
if you are pc guy, no matter what you say, they will remain pc guy and think mac sux.
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Compilation
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11/05, 2:02am, EST
Which websites keep documents like these in a simple, compiled format? We're kind of used to these but it'd be nice to point all the PC users to 1 website that just lists all these forward migration articles.
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11/05, 4:17am, EST
Try macsurfer.com
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re:macsurfer
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11/05, 7:18am, EST
nice call there scotty3210. thanks.
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'business process'?
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11/05, 7:27am, EST
you mean like basic online banking / accounting capability? yeah that would be nice... Intuit isn't on the ball enough to deliver that option after 3 upgrades to Quickbooks so I'd have to agree - the Mac has 'a few holes' that still make me keep a pc on my desk...
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This just in...
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11/05, 9:52am, EST
This just in, the Sky is Blue. And the Earth revolves around the sun.

CBS and NBC have yet to call the Sky for Blue, but have begrudgingly acknowledged that the Earth does revolve around the Sun.
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Re:yeah yeah yeah...
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11/05, 10:28am, EST
Um...did you read the article? It was so freakin thorough and pro-Mac I almost got tears in my eyes.
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Re: This just in...
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11/05, 10:32am, EST
Fox has NOT conceded that the Earth revolves around the sun, and maintains that the electorate has made a clear mandate for a flat Earth.
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Re: This just in... 15429
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11/05, 10:52am, EST
Daily Sho reports that the earth is round but full of hot air .. more to come !
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