i use a year-old dual opteron AMD workstation at work. guess where it's going in about a week?

L-A-N-D-F-I-L-L...

 

if you put $17,000 into a custom built PC it would blow away that mac that was posted above. its the same basic concept as putting 80,000 into either buying a sports mercedes or putting 80,000 into buying a civic and putting the rest of money into mods...or peicing together a turbo kit vs buying one...the peiced one would blow the other away.

 

nasa saw it fit to get rid of their cray supercomputers for flight path simulations and installed mac workstations in their place years ago. even then it was obvious macs rooled.

and guess what? nasa didn't pay anywhere near $17,000 for those macs, nor the $1 million price tags of their cray supercomputers...

 

i stand by what i say. i will never use a mac computer for anything..even work. i hate the systems and i HAATE the operating systems. im a PC user through and through. i guess thats what i get for being the son of the director of systems and operations at western.

 

nevAr use a mac??? [sm=groupwave.gif]

we mac elitists prefer it that way...

 

Mac rules? I dont know who is ruling when Mac got 5% compare to 90% of MS. Why do u think MS dominates the market even when apple is the company founded first? It's not just happened u know. Anyway, I still want an Intel Mac, after I upgrade my PC. Mac is good lookin but its lack of compatibility and software plus not customizable (not cheap if u can) is not good enough for me, atleast for now.

 

bmws capture only a miniscule portion of U.S. automobile sales every year, versus toyotas.

guess which i'd rather have?

 

thats your problem

 

Is this the same NASA that can't get shuttles off the ground anymore without the fear of them exploding?

You'll understand if I'm ultimately unimpressed.

And like phoenix_gtr said, if it's so "obvious" that Macs are better, why doesn't anyone use them?

As an interesting side-note, I just recently watched the post-production special features on King Kong. You know how many Macs I saw in 2 and a half hours of footage? One. And it was being used as a bitch renderer for low-quality audio previews. This was throughout all the CG work, editing, sound mixing, matte painting, rotoscoping, and all the other things Macs are too slow to do well.

If they're not good enough for WETA, ILM, Rhythm & Hues, Frantic, etc, etc, etc.... they sure as hell aren't good enough for me.

 

it's the same nasa that puts satellite in orbit and men into space. you don't they'd trust that with peecees do you?

btw, I was watching a special on national security and guess how many peecees i saw the room full of security consultants using? ZERO.

they were all using powerbooks.

they said if you wanted to get hacked or viruses, then get a peecee. lol.

the u.s. army used to use peecees for their webservers. but a 15-year-old hacked into it.

they switched to macs pretty quickly after that... LOL.