Re: Want an Apple at the cost of a PC?

cg <cgrams007@{removethis}yahoo.com> wrote:

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007 12:47:28 +0100, first_name@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Florian)
wrote:

cg <cgrams007@{removethis}yahoo.com> wrote:

What is apparently new is that the Mac hardware is not nearly as fast
as what you can buy off the shelf for a Windows PC. That means that
Leopard should run much faster on a PC clone than it does on a Mac.

Are you sure about that? Apple has a special deal with Intel and usually
get the last chips first. Did you ever look at the Mac Pros on the Apple
store?

I'm rarely sure of much these days. But I did read the article I
posted and the author does seem pretty certain about that.

From the article:

"My machine runs a e4300 Core Duo Processor over-clocked to 3.40 GHZ.
Where can you get a 3.4-GHz Mac? It will cost you a fortune. I have
1066-MHz DDR2 memory. Where can you get that on a real Mac???"

Hmm, I really wonder how a single e4300 Core Duo would compare to 2 quad
core Xeons 5300 coupled to a 256 bit wide memory architecture ;-)

http://www.apple.com/macpro/specs.html

--
Florian

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