On Mar 24, 3:39 pm, Bruce Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > forget it. ah clem has a set belief system and mere facts will not dislodge > it. I'm done feeding the troll. >
bruce, i respect your knowledge and i respect that you volunteer help and advice to all who post to this list and others. i am not blowing sunshine. i truly do. but don't you think you've crossed a line? first, you try to put words in my mouth and now you resort to name calling. why are you so threatened? i never said that a G4/G5 could outperform the latest intelmacs. what i said was that PPC based macs were vastly superior to win/tel PCs of comparable vintage and clockspeeds. that is an undisputable FACT, not a belief system. not in this thread, but in the past, i have stated that the last and best of the G5s can and do significantly outperform the first generation of intelmacs (which on paper were supposed to be better). this is also a well documented FACT. i also said that the reason for this is because the architecture of the PPC with altivec was/is inherently superior in design to the intel chip. also a FACT. how else do you explain facts number one and two? and finally i point out that todays intelmacs no longer outperform win/ tel PCs of comparable specs, which is also a FACT, not a belief system. all of these facts are indisputable. if that is what you wish to disparagingly call a "set belief system," that is your privilege. i think that doing so is more of a reflection on you than on me. my CONCLUSION, based on these facts, is that there is no longer any reason to pay the premium for an apple, when a substantially cheaper PC will perform just as well. now THAT is an opinion, and you may well disagree. that is your right. everybody has an opinion. it is also my opinion that all the ballyhoo about OSX vs Winbloze is just that. i don't run a computer to use the OS. i briefly have to go thru the OS to get to an app, but the app is what i work with, and apps nowadays work equally well on win/tel PCs and macs. the only practical reason i can see for hanging on to a mac is that it is more secure for surfing the net. for me, that is a very low priority. i use my computer as a tool to do work, not a toy to waste time and avoid real human contact. at this point, i will hang onto a cheap, outdated mac, and use it as a dedicated web access point. i am typing right now on a QS'02 that i got for free when the genii in our IT dept tossed it into a dumpster as useless junk four years ago. but my next major computer purchase will be a win/tel PC or perhaps a unix PC. and one final opinion that i will add is that the folks who cling to the myth of apple superiority and continue to support apple are the ones with a delusional "set belief system." but i won't call them trolls. that would be unkind. -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
