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Originally posted by GokuZool:
I used to have one of those really old Macs (the ones before the Power Macs) and you could get heaps of those shareware games  . What I don't understand is that how come Macs always have such low mhz! I mean 700mhz! A good Mac is around $3000 (Australian) with 800mhz 20gb 16mb graphic card. For $1999 (Australian) you can buy a PC with 1.8ghz, 20gb, 64mb graphic card and 256ram!
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The Mac IPC (Instructions Per Cycle) are much higher then comperable AMD/Intel chips. The motorolla chip the Mac's use preform more computations per processor cycle. The Motorolla platform also has a higher system bus speed then the PC's do.
In general, the Mac's do more with less. A dual 800 G4 will kick the $hit out of a P4 in any kind of graphic design or audio work. Be that as it may, I still like the PC much more. The software available on a PC makes it a much better purchase in my opinion.
Charean, the only monitor that Mac has that doesn't have a PC equivalence is the Apple Cinema Display and that's a $2500 display. What kind of monitor do you have that you buy a different kind of computer just to go along with it?
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