Originally posted by rueyloon
never crash Zhun Boh ??!?!?
win2k and winxp is just as stable.
Win2k/XP is not 'as stable'. They are way ahead in stablity.
Mac OS9 is nearly as unstable as Windows ME
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Try supporting several 100 mac machines and still think they are stable after wards.
OS9 had too much internet crap added to it in order to compete with Windows. I think they suceeding in being windows like - they emulated the unreliablity. The last really stable OS version was 8.6.
Price pressure on Apple of late has caused them to use cheaper parts - we get HD and Power supply failures at a rate comparable with cheap PCs.
MacOSX is mostly stable but to few apps take advantage of it and it's a support nightmare as Apple keep making significant changes each release.
Apple like to say their DP machines out compute wintel platforms, but DP wintel platforms are cheaper, and your application has to be threaded to take advantage of more than one CPU - and if your photo transform can't be threaded, it doesn't matter how many processors you have, its only going to run at the speed that one CPU chip can compute at.
A G4 IS way faster clock for clock than a P4, around 2x faster. Even PIII is significantly faster clock for clock than a P4. (Intel don't like to publish that one.
Thats why AMD started "PR" labling their chips again, AMD Athlons are more effcient chips than the PIII, let alone the P4, but people are buying on raw MHz values.
The P4 only wins over the G4 as they are made at more than 2x the clock speed of the G4 chip thus can win on raw brawn.
We have people at work proud of their DP mac G4 machines, but all they do basic word processing and simple web pages and run MacOS9, which CANT use the 2nd processor chip - it sits there idle....
As always - find the software that does the things you want and is easy to use. Then buy what ever computer/OS your chosen package needs to run.
