RE: [MLUG] apple?? mac?? Opinions please???

[Dave Lloyd <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, F Vernon Green wrote:

> I will have to admit that programs that are specially written for the Mac
> experience may have some benefit. Mainly in the area of video editing, he
> could render a 2 minute video clip faster than I could. Launching browser
> programs, word processing programs, and just opening and closing Windows
> were way slower. 

Ah.  that's probably the operating system.  Are you comparing MSIE to
MSIE or firebird to firebird?  I think that firebird to firebird would
be a more accurate comparison since msie DLLs are probably already
loaded into memory on your windows machine.  Those dsos have to be
loaded from disk in the case of the Mac.  No matter how fast your disk
is, it's way slower than RAM.

> This is just my experience. The bosses son went home with his tail between
> his legs as well since my 1.9 gig Pentium costs about half of what he paid
> for that Mac.

There are other performance measurements. That's a pretty one-sided
metric you were using and may be skewed due to the aforementioned
information.

Sorry for all the tech-talk this week, but I'm back out in Engineering
again. :)

-- 
--dlloyd

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