Racing666 said:
i won't buy one.... my nose cringes at anything that Intel does...maybe once mac smacks them around a bit, they may actually manufacture something decent...the P4 cpu is a memory hungry joke..
Your problem is not with the P4,it is with windows the operating system that runs on it. When you think about it the P4 is a really good processor and the only problem with it is it has a very larg pipeline, If intel can shorten that pipeline just a tad then it will really destroy the g5. Even now it is really impressing the devlopers that already have their hands on the intel powered macs. You will be missing out if you are that ignorant to not buy something just because of a name brand, so many people do that to apple saying that its crap and they never really gave it a try... Intel is actually better then powerpc because they have figured out how to create a high powered architechure that does not produce so much heat that their high speed towers do not require water cooling. Unless you are one of those few people who like to overclock the chip in which case the power of the computer would be really fast and then would need the water cooled, but overclocking lets say a G5 if it was possible would destroy the computer because of all the heat that the watercooling would not be able to cool the chip. So please to not be ignorant and bash products just because they have a high market share, when indeed they are a good product and I am excited for them to be in the new line of apple products.
So the actual meaning of this post is that the P4 is a good processor but the Windows that runs on it runs through the memory and leaves nothing left for other things that you want to do, so now you know for when macs with P4s come out that you will be fine in buying them, or else you are going to be running and AMD processor but still running windows and you will still have all the spyware and adware adn viruses, and a poor excuse for and operating system running your memory.. now I am not saying that I am against windows, if you know what you are doing it can be a good operating system but for the average user, the people who think that how crappy a computer is can be based 100% on the processor, then it is not the best operating system and can cause alot of user errors and crashes.
