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by brad
I debated whether to give you a VH versus an H rating for this, because I disagree with your approach to this debate as well as some disagreements over opinions (facts?), and what I think is simply bad advice.
However since you include so MUCH information in this review and since much of it IS HELPFUL and IS INFORMATIVE, you deserve the VH.
First, you have a beef with XP Home edition. XP Home Edition IS XP Pro except with a few bells and whistles turned off. A PC running XP Home with the exact same hardware will run XP Pro EXACTLY the same, in terms of speed/performance. You have that wrong and this greatly misinforms your readers. I own and use both XP versions, as well as have a W2K and 98SE box on my network.
Secondly, Mac was in one class pre, I would say, OS X Panther. And with that, I mean hardware that is in the same timeline as Panther - G4 chips with faster FSBs and clock speeds at least 1 ghz.
Before that, OS X ran very slow. I switched over completely in August 2002. At that time, a top of the line iMac was at 800 mhz and ran Jaguar. PAINFULLY slow. And that was top of the line for Apple - short of $4000 Power Macs.
And if you go back even further, to OS 9 (Classic) and even earlier, then you're in an entire different era. You suggest that current applications can run on these systems. They *might* run, but they aren't worth using.
I bought a second-hand Mac off eBay last year. I needed one for a special location. I bought an eMac for $625 shipped, and it has a G4 1.25 ghz chip with 512 megs ram. Basically, I needed a surf box with the occasional CD burn and word processing.
But I wouldn't consider any Mac running OS X with a chip less than a G4 1 ghz. I've used them, and they're annoyingly slow.
I've written a few pieces on this debate. I take a pretty different approach. My approach is more about the user-interfaces of OS X and Windows and how the differences break down. I do include hardware as part of the debate, but if you read my earlier stuff, I'm more pro-Windows than I am now. Right now, I wouldn't recommend a PC to anyone unless they absolutely needed an enterprise Windows-exclusive application.
When you write these reviews, you need to keep in mind that the first inkling of bias that you show will turn off readers. Your bias is quite evident. You need to stick to facts very early on and just compare apples to apples as much as you can (no pun intended).
If you start saying things like "I'm writing this on a G3 tangerine iMac with OS 9," that's going to turn people off. People are looking for fresh information and the reason they are considering switching is because of OS X and Apple's new hardware.
Still, thanks for the information and insight. You did a much better job than most of the clowns who write in this category.
brad.
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Mar 16 '06
1:47 pm PST
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brad's View (Reply to this comment)
by brad
hi there. i'm a Mac user as well and I've written reviews of the systems and in this category.
this article would be a lot easier to read if you properly formatted it. i gave up on some paragraphs because they are too long. you need to properly format your paragraphs.
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Sep 29 '05
11:48 am PDT
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by pad9
I updated this article with some more points I didn't have time to put in before. More updates may continue, so if there are any questions, ask them and I'll address them in the essay updates..
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Feb 16 '05
11:04 am PST
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Re: Awesome (Reply to this comment)
by pad9
thanx for the comment. If I was unclear about anything regarding computer parts, then please outline the points you don't quite get the hang of, and I'll go into a better explanation of it if I can.
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Feb 15 '05
2:04 pm PST
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