Are the new apple computers really 4X faster?
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yes and no. intel did make a new chip which runs faster and cooler. but you also need to look at what your comparing and what its running. in general they are a bit faster but this is still the first set. once the second set of intel chip macs come out i think we will be seeing much nicer specs
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If you can wait a bit then do so, since Intel macs will be much faster. If not, then PPCs are still very good.
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I think they're RAM and bus speeds are different too.\nSo it won't be as good as a real Centrino
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I love the new imacs.  what are you planning on looking into.  both the desktops and laptops are awesome for video and design work.  they are also very compatible with pc programs.  i wouldn't get one if you are in computer games though.  i haven't had nearly as many problems with the macs that i have worked with compared to pcs.
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Mac is the future\n\ni also have an iBook G4 - its a 1.2ghz\n\nmy house has:\n3x iBook G4\n1x PowerMac G5 Dual\n1x iMac G4\n1x Cube G4\n\nSoon to have:\niMac Core Duo\nMacBook Pro
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If you need the Mac for work, don't focus so much on speed comparisons.  The Mac Mini Duo Core 1.66 will be a fast computer.  Comparing a Mac's performance to a PC is really hard, since there are so many other differences.
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graphics, music recording, film editing all is easier and faster on Macs.\n\nthey are extremely customizable jeez
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It's a huge change for apple.  All these years windows based machines have always become more like the macintosh in design.  Now for the first time the mac is going to become more like the windows box.  \n\nAlso, there was some concern that it would make the mac easier to hack and that now one could take a mac built machine and throw the windows OS on it, but they supposedly made enough changes to the mac intel chip that, that's not supposed to be possible.\n\nAlso, I heard the intel macs are supposed to be super fast; and also it's new.  \n\nAnything with computers that's new is huge news.
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Although it may not be the primary source of the now slower speeds, your imac will speed up with a RAM upgrade to 512MB or higher.  I've been impressed with   http://www.buymemory.com  .  RAM modules are pretty cheap and you can install them yourslef.
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I bought my MacBook Pro just a few months ago, and the price has already dropped, and the clock speed has increased.  It's just something to be expected. However, I have respect for Apple not dropping their prices on all their PowerPC computers.  This holds the value on the resale market that PCs only wish they could have! :)\n\nnote:\nwindows is not "pre-installed".  After downloading the free Beta called Boot Camp, you must supply your own copy of Windows, which is like $100 or something.
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As a major Mac user and Fan of Apple. I regret to say NO.\n\nThat does not mean the machine is inherently slow, it has a lot to do with how the software interacts and how the website is written.\n\nA Dell uses Microsoft Windows. Internet Explorer is built into the OS. A Mac uses afari as a browser. While components are built in, it is still a separate application.\n\nSafari is one of the few Standards compliant browsers. That makes it very good at following the rules for HTML CSS, etc. But it also means many sites can confuse it and even break it when you visit and not work properly.\n\nThis and some other issues related to network use, makes browsing on the Mac slightly slower on all pages, and noticeable slower on a few poorly coded pages.\n\nThis slight performance gap will son be remedied with updates to the OS and hardware in upcoming weeks.\n\nSafari has come a long way from version 1.0 and is oftn faster than IE in rendering tests, but in the real world most people report surfing with a PC feels snappier than a Mac.
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I'll say that OSX is more advanced that Windows.  I however think that PowerPC processors are inferior to the x86 architecture now.  Sure at one point PowerPC processors were faster than Intel equivalents back during the Pentium II era.  But that is no longer the case and Apple has been unable to produce a 3GHz+ G5 chip and they have been unable to produce a G5 laptop processor as well.  Do you think they are switching to Intel processors because they want to.  No.  They are switching to Intel processors because they consume less power per clock cycle and they do more work and run cooler than the G5 processor and the will be using the Pentium M in their laptops.\n\nOSX is better, the G4/G5 processors are not.
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I have an Apple G4 17 and I absolutely love it because of all the reasons you said, and then some. Norm's answer was excellent because Apple is a better operating machine but Microsoft is bigger, which in new this world means better. Depending on what you're into you may need both machines to take advantage of both systems strengths. \n\nTheBoss?Yess!!!
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you technically couldn't make them the same speed, but unless you are saying like a Intel P4 2.8ghz a Celeron at 2.8 and an AMD Athlon at 2.8, well, the Athlon will beat everything from the Intel 2.8s to about 3.77s to even 4ghz for Intel due to the difference inthe AMD cpu architecture.
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Mac is superior for graphics.
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No CD burner?  that person's on crack!  I have a 15" Macbook Pro 2.0 GHz/256 MB VRAM, with 2 GB RAM and 100 GB 7200 RPM Hard Drive. Oh, yeah.. and a SUPERDRIVE (DVD -R -RW +R +RW and CD -R -RW).  I sold my Dual 1.8 GHz G5 tower, and have UPGRADED in power and performance.  My system runs very smoothly.  I've taken it apart.  Its thin, lightweight, good screen quality, ect.  Warmth of the machine depends on how much air it gets and the temperature of the room.  At home it's hot, but at school and even outside with a breeze, it stays cool.  The design of it is exelent.  My dad's HP notebook is almost twice as thick, twice as heavy, I always hit the disk eject button on the side, and the fans are on the BOTTOM where your legs go!  Macbook Pro is good.
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Now-a-days, not much.  RISC used to be faster because it used simpler rules to process information in the CPU.  But today processors are so fast that the complex instructions of CISC are usually more efficent.  It depends on the device that the CPU is in though.  But the theory was that it was faster to process 4 instuctions that that took 1 clock cycle each than to process one instruction that took 8 clock cycles.  You really get down into low level computer engineering with CISC and RISC.  But here's a simple example of how they work.  In RISC to multiply 2 times 4 the CPU would call an addition instruction and do it 4 times.  In other words to get the answer the CPU would add 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 to get 8.  In CISC there would be a multiplication instruction in the CPU and it would simply take 2 and multiply it by 4 based on how this instruction told it to.  But the problem is that while an addition instruction might only take 1 clock cycle to perform, the multiplication instruction might take 8.  It gets more complex than that, but I hope that gives you an idea.  This is also all happening in binary so you can look up how to multiply binary numbers and you'll see why it can get complex.