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Would you rather buy a $1000 Windows PC or a $1000 Mac PC?

Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2003 7:03 am
by Dylan
:?: I'm just doing some research for a project.

Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2003 3:23 pm
by Marc
I would much prefer a 1.2GHz G4 to a 2GHz Celeron system.

Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2003 10:22 pm
by phirkel
Sorry, but a 1000 dollar Mac cannot hold a candle to a 1000 dollar PC as it stands...hell, a 1000 dollar mac can't hold a candle to a 700 dollar PC, sadly. Apple needs to open the market so that there can be some competitive growth and cheap clones...

However, I also wouldn't buy Intel or a Celeron either. AMDMe(tm) please...

Actually screw PC's period...I would buy a 1000 dollar Origin deskside box, because it would rape both those computers and my company makes the CPU for it...gotta love corporate loyalty!

Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 4:28 am
by ClockWise
Which would you rather buy?

$1000 Macintosh Computer
$1000 Hand-job

Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 3:46 pm
by Mac Emu
I'd take the Mac there Clockwise. :D

But I'd rather have a $2500 or so 17" G4 PowerBook with keys that light up running OS 9\X and VPC 6.1 running Windows XP Pro (and Yellow Dog Linux on a third partition).

Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2003 9:10 am
by javier_garza4
neither. more like a 2ghz pentium 4 512 mbram like the one i have

Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2003 9:11 am
by Dylan
Well I learned today that AMD processors use some sort of VIA motherboard that really fks up music in the studio. :evil: For some reason or other, (probably cheapness of quality) crackles and pops etc. show up after recording. With Intel chipsets though, my music is as clean as, well, as Marc Nadene's crotch? (Though without the unwanted crackles and pops... ok thats a little over the top...) Contrastingly perfect.
And oh yeah.. that $1000 is canadian dollars: $763.94 u.s.

Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 5:37 am
by phirkel
I've been using a nForce2 motherboard for forever, and have had no such problems. You probably bought a VIA Chipset based motherboard (big mistake for performance computing). If you were to get a decent nForce motherboard, along with a decent sourd card (I love my Audigy, emu10k* cards have always been good quality, I find).

Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 6:26 am
by Dylan
Oh the studio guy, Lee, said that AMD only used VIA motherboards. I guess he didn't know what he was talking about... even though he went on for about half an hour on the subject. *yawn* But thanks for the info I'll tell him about it next time.

Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 3:46 pm
by mw_jon
While the VIA chipset is nothing spectacular, it's unlikely that the recording issues are related. I record through an AudioPhile 24/96 and have absolutely no audio glitches. I have one of the shittiest VIA based motherboards available. What version of Windows is studio guy Lee running? Win2k is notoriously bad for recording. The problem is probably resolvable; you should hit 'im up.

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 6:07 am
by Dylan
Well hes using Windows XP Professional. He said he did a lot of research on the internet about it and it's not fixable. Maybe it's just that type... We thought it was the sound card but he insisted that it wasn't. Anyways he's going back to his Intel board, so I wont bother. It's his problem. :wink:
Oh and Phirkel... Dr. Strangelove sure is a good movie, eh?

Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2004 8:39 am
by phirkel
Dylan: Yessir, it is ... possibly one of Kubrick's best (after maybe A Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket).

I'm just gonna voice my support for my earlier opinion that VIA chipsets are crap, and I'm gonna add that "Studio Guy Lee" is a moron, because there are probably more ALi, AMD and nForce-based motherboards out there than there are VIA-based mobos. I suspect, however, that we're gonna look at the KT4V[-L] like we do the Mac LC nowadays -- like Apple keeps makin' them.

Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 10:10 am
by Mac Emu
66.227.223.92.kzo.mi.chartermi.net

(Expicit nudity and sexual orientation in Marc Nadiene's post above was deleted by someone, probably Clockwise. A few children visit this forum Marc, you should be arrested.)

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 4:34 am
by all.
vMac goatse's the forum, and that's the best you can come up with? I expected more from you, JW. Far more.

Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 11:04 pm
by Mac Emu
I don't have time to deal with idiots.

Posted: Wed May 19, 2004 5:39 pm
by Summers
I'll buy a Mac - I already have 3 PC's :)

Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 3:14 pm
by robojam
ClockWise wrote:Which would you rather buy?

$1000 Macintosh Computer
$1000 Hand-job
For $1000 I'd expect Jennifer Lopez to give the hand job with Beyonce Knowles taking over when her hand got tired!

Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2004 1:05 pm
by AHunter3
I'll stick with Mac.

I like being able to emulate a PC, and I'm pleased to see so many PC users emulating a Mac.

PCs have come a long long way and deserve respect and I don't want to start a platform-flamewar. What's the right computer for one person isn't necessarily the right computer for someone else.

But I'd still rather pay $3000 for a Mac with the performance equivalent of a PC I could get for $650.

Naturally I'd prefer to pay $650 for the Mac :) and Apple isn't as overpriced as it once was.

Posted: Fri Feb 18, 2005 6:23 pm
by PPC_Digger
medafor wrote:im into 3d gaming and highend 3d animation, a market apple cant even come close to competing in.
What are you talking about? Apple is one of the major makers of highend graphics hardware and software, and most current 3d games are available for the mac.
medafor wrote:but what good is that if you cant have the latest console games
No personal computer can run console games without an emulator, which most run slower than OSX chess on PearPC (no offense Seppel).

Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2005 7:55 am
by rudefyet
I bought a $1200 x86 laptop...an Athlon 64 based one made by HP

Trust me, I kick myself everyday for not buying a new iBook (or Powerbook off eBay)

Windows and Linux have both gotten on my last nerve

Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:47 pm
by trygvebw
I would definitly buy the Celeron (or preferly an AMD 8) ) because i like using Linux so much, i would never want to use any other OS than GNOME + Linux.

Posted: Fri Mar 04, 2005 3:15 pm
by PPC_Digger
trygvebw wrote:I would definitly buy the Celeron (or preferly an AMD 8) ) because i like using Linux so much, i would never want to use any other OS than GNOME + Linux.
You do know that there is Linux for PowerPC....

Posted: Sat Mar 05, 2005 10:35 am
by robotintestines
I've been hearing complaints about VIA chipsets and sound problems for a long time, though I have never had a single problem while recording in my humble home studio.

Regarding the topic at hand:

I would buy(build) the $1000 x86 computer.