While you guys talk OS, they talk 3D: Part 2

I love the way he compares the MEGA-BILLION $ corporation that is Microsoft to Apple. I wonder how many more people MS has working on XP/Longhorn than Apple has working on OS X?

Again, he makes semi-valid points but his comparisons are seriously skewed.
 
Most of all CellFish (or DellFish) was confusing a lot of different aspects of computing:
1) The OS
2) The programs
3) The hardware
4) The marketing

You cannot effectively compare the efficiency of OS'es if they are incapable of running on the same hardware. Thus all you have to rely on is subjective experience. The same more or less applies to programs: even when running the same programs (or benchmarks) on different harware/OS's you cannot tell objectively which setup is better.
Hardwarewise, matters are equally complicated, since a dual G4 is very different from a pentium 4 in many respects, programs will perform differently and behave differently: again what is better? Well more speed is better, but personal experience is no scientific argument. CellFish says OS X is slow, I say OS X is fast. We could be both right, since our setup, programs, etc differ.

Then you come to marketing and you enter a very dim lighted area: which arguments used by commercial companies are really good? Which benchmarks / revieuws / test can you trust? Everyone will say his product is best.

So really there are at least four different discussions going on:
-Windows against the Mac OS
-Apps under Mac/G4 vs. Win/pentium
-The G4 (+mobo, FSB, dual etc.) VS the Pentium as hardware architectures.
-The reasons companies use to market their products and how they perform in the market.
 
Those of you who have read any post that I have put up know me to be a Mac believer. Because of a freak power surge that fried my StarMax 3000 I am getting a very nice Dell as a replacement. Mainly to placate clients you use PCs. It should arrive at the end of the week or the beginning of next week.

I can run tests on it if anyone is interested. The systems compared will be the Dell (P4 2.66 ghz, 256 MB RAM, 64 MB Gforce4), a TiBook (G4 800 mhz, 1 GB RAM, Radeon 8500 or 9500), and an iMac (G4 800 mhz, 768 MB RAM, 32 MB Gforce2).

Granted the tests won't be fair because of the PC's processor, but I can try. It will have to be a nonbenchmark type of test.

Let me know.
 
senne, the thread was closed because it was getting to trolling, and it got complaints. Let's hope the part 2 is after a good night's sleep and stays more clean.
 
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