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| Everything PCs Rule!! |     | 0 | 0% |
| Some Future Mac (G5+) |    | 4 | 3.92% |
| G4 |    | 31 | 30.39% |
| G3 |    | 29 | 28.43% |
| Powermac |    | 6 | 5.88% |
| Performa |    | 4 | 3.92% |
| Quadra | | 5 | 4.90% |
| Nothing, I would never by a PC | | 23 | 22.55% |
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March 26th, 2002, 09:43 AM
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| I found a Centris 660AV this weekend with 8 megs of RAM and a 250 MB hdd running MacOS 7.1. I also found a Macintosh 512k and a Dual-floppy SE. All for free, and all work just as well as they did when they were first sold. The Centris is is plenty fast for its age, and I've now no doubt it would beat a PC of its vintage in many ways. So I guess I'll pick the quadra because the centris 660AV was one of the first quadras.  |
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March 26th, 2002, 10:54 AM
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| First, the title of this poll doesn't make a ton of sense... it essentially reads "Mac vs. Mac," since the Macintosh is, itself, a PC. "Windows vs. Mac," would be a bit better, but that's saying "An operating system vs. a piece of hardware." Correcting that, we get, "Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP vs. OS 9/OS X.". However, we are talking hardware here, so the MOST, MOST correct title should be something along the lines of, "Windows-based Intel/AMD Machine vs. Mac." Just being anal.  I voted PowerMac. I loved my old 7600/132. There's no way in hell I'd take a Quadra or a Centris over a souped-up Windows-based Intel/AMD machine. That's silly. I'd take the Intel/AMD machine and sell it and buy a G4. Sheesh.
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March 26th, 2002, 02:43 PM
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| I'll take my current 350MHz slot-loading iMac over any damn PC that's available today! 
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March 26th, 2002, 04:37 PM
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| a worthwhile poll would be nice. gee, while we're at it let's debate whether or not kirk could defeat picard
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March 26th, 2002, 07:39 PM
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| Kirk kicks Picard's ass any day of the week. I voted PowerMac, because anything before that just, well... *ahem*, No. I like all Macs but a 2.2 GHz versus a non-PPC Mac? No.  Kirk kicks Picard's ass though. |
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March 26th, 2002, 07:51 PM
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| I still own a Performa 6200CD. It was really sweet when I bought it, but it's so slooowww! I don't just mean that it is slow now. I mean it began being really slow just some months after I bought it, when MacOS 8 came out. That and MacOS X is why I chose "G3" on the poll. I mean... get real... who will ever want to use any flavor of classic MacOS after fiddling around with such a powerfull OS as MacOS X? And the G3 is officially the minimum you will need to run OSX. So, basically, I would chose any mac capable of running MacOS X over any 1000GHz PC running windows or whatever!!  |
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March 26th, 2002, 07:53 PM
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| Good point. The more I think about it, the more I realize that the main reason I use a Mac now is to use OS X (and, failing that, OS 9) but I really can't stand anything below OS 9... I'm voting for G3, so take one vote off of PowerMac for me :P |
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