Re: Re: Other variables
I bought a dualie 1 Ghz from the Miami store on Wednesday (they got them a day late because they are on the East Coast). Everyone at the store was very apologetic because I came in the day before and they weren't there yet. I do have to say that the new box hauls ass. I previously had an 867 Mhz box and still have a 667 TiBook and this new Mac rocks. I don't know how it compares to the previous dualie 1 Ghz, but I have run Warcraft III and Max Payne with all settings set to maximum at full Cinema HD resolution (I took the $500 rebate) and they didn't skip a beat. Not to mention this is with the ATI and not the GeForce Ti.
I do want to add my comment on the PC vs. Mac debate. I have had several multi Ghz processor PC machines. However, none have reliably done what I have been able to do with this baby out of the box. I have hooked it up to a Cinema HD display and a 1600x1200 monitor (dual display setup). I have had it playing LOTR in the DVD player, playing a 384kbps RealPlayer stream, AND running VirtualPC full screen on the second monitor. There were no performance hits... it ran like a dream.
I just kicked all of these programs off and expected them to work. I would never do this on a PC because I would be afraid some of the stuff would crash. If I was on a PC, I probably would have closed some of the stuff. Now, you might say why would I do that. Well, I'll tell you. I bought the first 1 Ghz PC ever released (this was a couple of years ago). I also got the best gfx card ever available at the time. I figured I would be able to do all kinds of stuff with that power. Well, guess what I could do a lot. But, many things were slower than they had to be (MP3 encoding especially). Also, the damn machine crashed quite a bit (every other day). Now, my Macs (including the one I bought a couple of days ago), don't have this problem. They have the hugest advantage over the PC bull****. They KNOW the hardware. They can take advantage of it. It doesn't crash all the time because of some weird incompatibity.
The problem with PC hardware is everyone has to program to the lowest common denominator. I don't mean the slow stuff either. I mean that everybody has to program for "compatibility." I have custom built many cutting edge PCs in my lifetime. You know the ones that everybody talks about when they talk benchmarks. But these boxes always seem to have problems. They crash with certain programs or they refuse to recognice certain CDs or something goes wrong. In other words, the custom built speed demon I built with the 2 AMD processors, the fast RAM, the ultimate GfX card, and the big shiny ***** runs Warcraft III at 30 fps for 15 minutes but then crashes with no explanation. When, at the same time, the Apple with less Mhz, less Gfx card, less RAM, and less shiny *****, runs faster and does not crash. Why. Because of hardware integration. This is more important than clock speed, DDR, or whatever. All of you people who complain about Apple having a slower CPU are missing the big picture. The big picture is that Apple hardware is so well integrated that everyting can take advantage of everything. The other guys have to go with the LCD (lowest common denominator).
Originally posted by BobVB
Not just custom configurations. I placed my order for the stock dual 1 GHz immediately after they were available too - mine is still 'being assembled' too.
Why do they say 1-3 days when they know there is no chance of them actually shipping it in that time frame?
