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Re: Mac vs. PC/God
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Posted by Brian on March 23, 1999 at 01:42:28:
In Reply to: Re: Mac vs. PC/God posted by Bill on November 25, 1998 at 08:27:04:
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: : An illiterate can operate a Mac-the same can't be said of pc's.
: : Windows 98 is the end of the line for that os and it will be
: : several years befor nt can be cluged into a dummys operating system
: : and by that time Apple's os lead will be even greater than the
: : current 10 year one! So I'm afraid God will have to either switch
: : or renew his welfare application or go back to his Playstation.
: : And remember not to play with sharp toys!
: :
: If Macs are so good then why doesn't anyone use them?
Mac argument #1: Anyone can use a Mac.
Answer: True, but that makes the Mac a lot more inflexible...this is why software for the Mac usually lags a little behind the PC. This also makes it almost impossible to solve problems if serious ones occur without having to go to a Mac technician.
Mac argument #2: The new G2 chip is faster than any Pentium.
Answer: Also true, the MIPS rate (Millions of Instructions per Second) of the G2 is greater than that of any Pentium (including the new P3) HOWEVER the RISC archatecture that Mac uses forces the processer to read every single instruction multiple times (sometimes as many as or 5 times per instruction) while the PC arch. only passes an argument to the processor ONCE. So, when placed in thier respective machines the Pentium still out performs any Mac on the market.
Argument #3: The Mac is multitasking
Answer: TRUE. BUT!!!!! The Mac only became truly multitasking with it's release of OSv8 last year. Windows has been truly multitasking since 1995 (Windows 95)
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