rob_jones
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Location: Oglethorpe, GA
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-no reflex, G2 or other sims
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I'll give you that one, but it's not worth it to me to toil on a Windoze system just to have access to a sim.
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| -no serial ports which I need for some hardware unless you buy a USB adapter
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Um, it's 2003. Serial ports are dead. USB and Firewire have become the new standard. (Both developed by Apple - USB was co-developed with Intel. Go figure)
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| -hardware itself is twice as expensive and the G4's were loud as hell...
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A common misconception. But simply not true. Do some comparison shopping, feature for feature. Besides, you get what you pay for. Early G4's had noisy fans, but my dual 1.33Ghz G4 is whisper quite. There is a software update that fixes the noisy fan on early G4's.
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| -strange marketing (2x 2GHz is not 4GHz)
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Strange how? What's strange about focusing your marketing on your product's strengths? Dual 2Ghz systems aren't marketed as 4Ghz. Have you ever looked at the benchmarks for G4 vs. P4? When you factor in variable like OS efficiency, a 1.5Ghz G4 is faster than a 3GHz P4. If you really want to feel ill, look at the benchmarks for the new G5:
http://www.apple.com/powermac/
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| -and you still need Microsoft Office ouch
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Thank Heaven that isn't true! Appleworks (bundled with most professional systems, $79 stand-alone) reads and writes Word and Excel files. FileMaker Pro blows Access out of the water (and is cross-platform). Keynote rips Powerpoint a new one Besides, Office IS available for the Mac. So if you MUST use it, you can (I have it...just in case...)
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| And now Intel has the Pentium M with low energy consumption, another argument not to buy a Mac...
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I'd love to see stats on that one. Don't forget that the chip itself may have low consumption. But when it has to process unnessessarily complex instruction sets, it uses more juice. It may be energy effecient...until it has to start chewing on Windoze code.
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