Question regarding macs (not a troll one)

I am a strong proponent of PC's be they linux, bsd, some descendant of os/2, whatever.

but I freely recognize that macs have us beat in per pound media processing. I mean, there are things you can do, but, out of the box


at least historically.


has the switch away from motorola to X86 changed this dominance?

and if so, is PC capable of ripping off some of this dominance, and giving me the massive renderfarm in a CUDA style (like folding at home) without me having to deal with hackintosh or apple idiocy?

 

The PowerPC architecture was the super rendering magic behind the Mac. Now, all the extra features are on the motherboards. This relieves the load from the processor.

Take the Vista performance rating tool to compare the Macs with Vista against PC's with Vista. I know the Mac laptops usually score better than PC laptops. They can use the same processor and memory, but the logic boards and mobo's are different.

 

all I know is macs are the shit.

/hijack

 

Agreed

 

macs are verry well designed hardware and software work flawlessly together on a stable platform no $:ctrl+alt+del hell

 

because there are only fifteen options for each piece of hardware.

it's a lot easier to build drivers when you don't have to worry about people competing to build hardware for them.

you can just say "oh, you'll be building our DVDRW+?

okay, let us see the hardware, okay, wrote the exact driver we'll need, we're good.

and, of course, they still mess up sometimes. but, we don't wanna mention that. (or that there are so few third party developers fixing those oopsies)

it's unreasonable to compare them in that way.

I don't like macs, but I don't use my computer for things macs are good at. if I did, I'd love macs.

 

I've always been a PC person. grew up on PCs, learned Mac in high school, still prefer PC. I feel like i can always do a lot more with PC, not to mention play games. Macs have always felt so cumbersome to me, and always have issues with opening file types, installing software, etc.