It's pathetic that you make excuses to cover for one of Apple's most obnoxious failings. Pay $3000 to get a "superior" and "higher quality" computer, and then go in with wire cutters and aftermarket fans to make it as quiet as less expensive, faster, "lower quality" PCs from any major OEM. Oh yeah baby!
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Apple are certainly not getting any of my money when I've got enough for a tower next year, noisy, soundcard hell (even some protools system don't work with them!!!) and unable to boot into an OS that will run all my software without me spending £££s on upgrades or even replacements for some of the more quirky OS 9 apps I use.
Not that I'd move platforms, I'll be on the look out for a used QS instead.
I agree with you, it's pathetic, there's being an apple user, then there's being a blind moron with nothing better to do than defend every bad thing apple do, the only defense is, "well it doesn't run on windows!", that's enough to defend the mac as a whole but all this 'superior' or 'higher quality' crap has got to stop as a defense.
As far as the design of both the G4 tower and it's motherboard, in what way does it fit these claims?
It's not speed, it's not expansion, it's certainly not a form over function case design and it's definately not ignoring the issue of how quiet a computer operates at.
It's bad enough that I've had an entry level - mid range powermac for nearly 5 years now and apple havn't even got something 3 times the clockspeed in it's place.
I see no need for such elborate cooling, the G4 is smaller than the Pentium 4 and uses far fewer watts but P4 systems run virtually silent where as the words 'wind tunnel', 'leaf blower' or 'doesn't even boot with my soundcard' crops up all the time with these FAKE DDR models.
All I can say is I hope apple get their act together before they have powermacs with the IBM chip in them, they WILL need better cooling than a G4 would typically need but no more than a Sawtooth G4 had given the watts and heat involved.
