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Originally posted by fryke
Jade: Go ahead and test what you would be doing on a Mac. Forget for a moment about the MHz numbers. What really matters is how fast you get your work (or not your work, but fun) done. And that's where Macintosh excels. It's the design of 'easy to use', it's how the machine works for you instead of the other way 'round that makes the Macintosh a better computer.
I don't really care whether the next PowerPC processors will be labelled 2 GHz, X MegaFlips or 200 MHz, as long as they're faster than the processors we're using now.
Benchmarks are all nice and that, but seriously: Are you the person that lets your computer run for four hours without interaction rendering something? I'm not. Most of the time I'm interacting with my computer, and there is where speed matters. Speed of workflow, that is. And the Mac's just faster. |
A simple point and well articulated!
The problem is... where do you go and test drive a Mac?
I don't know many computer shops in the UK that stock Macs and those that do are staffed by pimpled geeks who love to show off their knowledge of IRQ's and other really important 'techie' stuff.
We don't have the Apples in education thing like the US so I'm wording how many Macs are sold by word of mouth from people like us.
I wish I could write...
"Apple what you really need to do is XXXXXXXXXXX"
but I don't know what X is, so for now I'll follow your lead and show my friends, one at a time, that faster doesn't equal smarter.