That said, I want to say - Unlike many Mac users, I'm not loyal to Apple in any way.
Is the new PC faster than my old P3? Yes. Is it almost four times as fast as the CPU clock speeds would make it seem? No. Does it blaze circles around my Mac like the PC guys swear it will? No way.
One of the first things I wanted to try out was my all time favorite game - Quake III. I have seen tons of benchmarks showing through-the-roof framerates on PCs running the demos. Numbers that make you think the PC does kill the Mac. I don't play a demo so I just fired up a map and started playing with the framerate displayed in the corner. I figure that's as close to actually playing the game as you can get.
I've got different sized LCDs so the PC was running at 1024x768 and the Mac at 1280x1024. Both in 32 bit color with maximum settings on all options. Running around and killing all the bots dishes out almost equal frame rates. They are so close there is no way to say one is better than the other, except for the fact that the Mac is running at a larger screen resolution so it does look better.
That's two 800Mhz G4s pitted against the 2.4Ghz x86 (of the inside variety). That really makes me believe the Megahertz myth firsthand.
How about everything else? It's good. That's about all I can say. Surfing the Internet in Mozilla on both OSs gives nearly identical results. I use Photoshop daily and the dual processors just burn the x86. That's not fake when Apple is showing that. That doesn't mean everything is faster on the Mac because it isn't.
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