Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 08:00:29 09/22/03
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On September 22, 2003 at 10:42:53, Tord Romstad wrote: >On September 21, 2003 at 16:29:34, Roy Eassa wrote: >>On September 20, 2003 at 07:27:06, Tord Romstad wrote: >> >>>Thanks for the data. If my own program behaves similarly, I can expect >>>the 2 GHz G5 to be about as fast as a 2.4 GHz Pentium IV, and about 30% >>>slower than an Athlon XP 2.4 GHz. This is of course not very impressive, >>>but it is certainly a lot better than I feared. >>> >> >>Well, a _DUAL_ 2 GHz G5 should be pretty perky... > >Only if I write a parallel version of my program, which I do not intend >to do. Besides, I cannot afford the dual 2 GHz (even the 1.8 GHz is >a bit expensive to me). > >>I currently have a G4 running at 733 MHz. It's plenty fast for day-to-day use >>in OS 9, but disappointingly slow in OS X (especially the Finder). > >That's strange. My PowerBook G4 550 MHz (which of course does not have >a L3 cache) with 256 MB RAM is fast enough in OS X, IHMO. I hardly ever >use the Finder, though. > >Tord I know most people don't consider this, but here's one thing I've learned over and over in my 15 years of Mac ownership: The resale values of Macs are very high. They usually cost considerably more to buy, but you can sell them for a LOT. I've done so time after time. One time, I got significantly more than I paid (it was a discontinued Power Mac 9600 which had gone up in value over time due to its 12 DIMM slots and other strong expansion options). So if you upgrade (buy a new one and sell the old one) your Mac every 2 or 3 years, the cost of ownership is not that high at all. I really don't think it's more per year than for a PC, and perhaps it's less. But these days I could not imagine having just a Mac and not a PC, too. We'll have to see how fast Virtual PC v6 runs on that dual G5...
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