guys, hate to tell you this, but alot of time in video editing, pcs are alot more stable than the mac. i work for a post production editing house. we use custom built pcs, they are cheaper to build and if you know how to build them, they are faster.
the problem with this thread, is that all of you are now changing what was supposed to be the benifit of risc processing and why we have been buying apple for so many years. if i was to look at the mac and see only a 1:1 ratio on speed, 1ghz g4 = 1ghz amd, then why the hell would i ever buy a mac that costs 4 times the amount and doesn't run half the speed. business people, we don't need flashy graphics or neat looking icons, we need rendering speeds and stability. osx is not there, and neither is jaguar. os9, forget it. we compared our dual athlons boards, and we went dollar for dollar, cause that's how you compare, not box for box, cause what a dual 1ghz g4 would cost me, i can rack out a system that goes so far beyond it in terms of technology it's not even funny. tyan dual board 760 mp, 1800's, at the time the price per clock was not worth it to go any higher, and we were buying quite a few machines. 1.5 gig ddr 333 ecc ram!!!! people keep talking about ddr, but in the real world, you need ecc, error correction code, it stops crashes, all computers get ram leaks and errors, this helps to fix the numbers passing through the ram, costs more, alot more... but oh god is it worth it in production.
scsi!!!! for the same price i can add in all the scsi320 i want, and please somebody tell me scsi320 raid doesn't kill ata 100 that apple has.
i was always told, whatever the mac speed is, double it and you have it's pc equivilent. if you can't say that anymore, macs are more personal and worthless in business, maybe give a imac to the receptionist to look qute when clients walk in, but nothing more than that.
most people, like me, can say well, it's an apple and i just like it better, i'm one of them, i love my powerbook, i love osx, but realistically in business and production, the mac is just worhtless when you look at cost, production time, considering that our macs crash more than our pcs, our pcs running win2k are extremely stable, in full production it can stay up for weeks without a hitch, we to try to restart all machines nightly, but sometimes renders are going. so personal, mac, business, forget it, but really, personal sells more, so maybe they should be looking that way, especially if you can't keep up, and even so, i don't think a dual 1.5 ghz g5 with ddr would change things, at least not for price/perfomance.
