How do these computers compare for speed? Which is faster?
Noah

A 300MHz G3 is roughly comparable to a 500MHz PIII.

Alex

Cool, Thanks.
Noah

One of my friends got a G5, and claims its 50 million times faster than any pentium. Well. Ive never used it, but he loves it more than anything. Does anyone know much about them?

Well, I have a friend that is into macs, and he said that the fastest G5 is comparable to a PIV 3.0 Ghz.

yeah. That was one thing. Why have an uber fast mac? There are no games for it, so what is the point? I mean, for games a high performance computer is lovly, but all my friend does is play music, and warcraft 3. And warcraft three is not exactly the most advanced graphics inna world.

I dont know why you would ever need a dual G5. Even editing movies I doubt youd need it.

Plus my friend bragged about being able to add 8 gigs of ram to his comp. I was like WOW! Really? That is the most pointless thing innna world! You will NEVER max out 1 gig of ddr, why in gods name would you max out 8 Gigs of ram. Hell, most of the time I dont max out my dinky 256 rambus.

I agree. Only a super server would ever need 8 gigs of RAM. Ridiculous. As to Mac games, Halo is out now, and a few others. But I'm not much on computer gaming, they make consoles for that.

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hardly... a basic home user... yeah.. they would never need more than 259-512... but if you have ever worked in a graphics company..(high end graphics) 8GB of memory is nothing. Whatever you give a graphics artist to use.. he/she will max the system out very quickly in that type of environment. I have never seen a PC (meaning either linux or windows) every come close to opening a graphics file that is 2GB-5GB in size.. but I have seen an old G3 open one with no problem (took about 2-3 hours to open) but a mac opened it... however a G5 can open a 4GB file in about 35 mins. specs of the machine is Dual 2.0ghz, w/ 4GB of ram...

all im saying is 8GB of ram can be used up on a MAC if given to the right person

now 8gb of ram on a windows or linux machine... im sure it would choke on a 4GB file...

Very interesting!

yeah, macs are very fast. but who has got the money to buy a mac??

Ya, Macs use propriatary hardware which make them too expensive!!

example:
windows = propriatary software = too expensive
same thing with Macs.

Yes, well if you want to use a 64 bit AMD fx-51 when you build you computer, its gonna cost ya. A mac will be reasonable if you are shelling out that amount of cash, of course if you are getting a 64 bit fx51 then youd probably be a big time gamer so Macs would be useless...

News flash for stupid people: The Macintosh is _also_ a personal computer! Which means not only Wintel machines are called personal computers!


No.

Software !=hardware, Einstein.

''propriatary'' is not a word.


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