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Hrm. You've got a point there. Let me think about it...

Here's a benchmark pcWorld did:
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,112749,pg,8,00.asp
This is the last page of it where they have the nice chart, so if you want to read it all just check the other pages.

Here's a link to the "Aurora" line of alienware machines:
http://www.alienware.com/system_pages/aurora_ddr.aspx
Note that these are *single* athlon 64 systems, and they outperform the dual 2.2 Ghz g5 on half of the benchmarks. Also note that the specs on these Aurora's are better than the ones used for the benchmarks, and the cheapest one here is only $1.5k...

I can't find a link to the polywell machine listed, but this is their site if you want to check it out:
http://www.polywell.com

Cool. Thanks!

Well, maybe we'll get there someday...

I have a G4 Powerbook, I switched about a year ago when my girlfriend bought an iBook and we set up an airport base station in the apartment. I could no longer go to the desk to go on the internet on my old Gateway when she gets to walk around the apartment with her computer. A month later my college bookstore was selling top of the line combo drive 17" Powerbooks for $1000 less than the Mac website, so I got one for my mom too.

I can barely even look at Windows PCs now. It is like listening to Bose speakers after having my Axioms for the last 2 years. Mac OSX Panther is too much fun and everyone I know is as jealous of my Powerbook as they are my Axiom theater.

Although I took a class on C and Unix, I am not a programmer, and I do not play games, all I do with my computer is play on the internet and use Mac features like iTunes, iPhoto and other stuff like that.

ringmir,

Not to keep this mac vs. PC thing going, but I have in my posession a bootable CD from which I can reset any Windows password. I can walk up to your PC, drop it in, reboot, and have complete control in about 5 minutes. Works like a charm. I use it at work. (Of course, the BIOS password and no CD booting can defeat it, but I'm just saying...)

http://www.winternals.com

As a further on that, you can't get past the open firmware password on a Mac, either.

Alright. I wake up and there's been some action around here. On the password note, I was not aware of that product for windows, and naturally it doesn't comfort me to know about it. On the firmware password, I haven't personally tired it, it sounds like exactly what is needed. A friend of mine however, told me that if you fail it three times in a row the thing will still boot. (Personally that sounds like nonsense to me, but this is just what I've been told by a friend with a powerbook g4 and I have no way to confirm or deny it.)

Now then, snippy, I have a linksys 802.11b wireless router in my apartment, and my desktop is wired to it. But whenever people come over with a laptop, mac or pc, they can get online without any problem. From your explained use of your laptop, I would personally recommend a mac anyway.

As I said before, mac wins for useability and stability, pc wins for economic high end performance. That's why I'm on the dark side, I grew up serious gamer, and ended up a serious programmer. These days I do most of my programming in java anyway, so I could code on a mac without any trouble, but the hardware is not cheap enough for me to justify it. I can just get more computer for my money with a pc, and I've been working on pc's long enough that fixing them whenever they act up is not a problem.

I want to be clear, I'm not doing any mac bashing here. I like them, they're good computers, they're just not good computers for me.

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pc wins for economic high end performance

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That really depends on how high end (see #3) you're talking about

I'm a mac guy as well--

on the subject of performance, I think apple/ibm POWER chips will do quite a bit better than apple/G4 chips, which is where apple earned their reputation for lagging speed. OS innovation has really stepped up with OS X as well.

This is going to be an exciting time to be a mac person, I think.

i have an ancient mac LC sitting around here somewhere. i think it's in the closet?