HI! I have a few questions about MAC. I run 3dmax and softimage on a PC today but would I get some performance inprovements on a Powermac??? Ive heard that Mac is much faster compared to a pc? Is it posible tu run MacOS9 or X on an ordinary PC??

You can't run MacOS on a PC because it won't recognize the processor, although you can run Windows NT on a Macintosh. I personally feel that Macs are much slower than PC's, but I'll let you read my arguments here instead of posting directly in this message. However, many graphic designers feel that Macintoshes are superior for their line of work, and I have to admit that for the most part they are right, at least with certain programs. If you are considering buying a new Macintosh to replace your current PC, I would discourage it unless you have lots of money to spend. By the way, I love IBM.

I can let you trash Mac on a mac board! Mac's are like trucks - lots of torque and pulling power which aren't really represented in clock cycle speed so you will find that a 500Mhz G3 on my snow runs quite well for 500Mhz - iit is almost as if Steve Jobs benchmarks the computer and says, "well it runs between 800Mhz and 500Mhz, lets sell it as a 500Mhz machine 'cause we know for SURE it clocks 500" While the intel and AMD guys are like sports car dudes - trying to get faster and faster to impress guys like your self what they don't tell you is that with a 1Ghz chip which is super fast you're driving on a slow assed road 200Mhz - that is where the paradox starts and the arqument begins. Personally I have a PIII 800 and a G4 500 side by side and a G3 500 in the next room I use the G4 500 most of the time 'cause it calculates the long floating point algorithms for music or whatever extremley fast. Point to note the ONLY program that I personally find is faster on my PC is MICROSOFT WORD and the rest of the MICROSOFT OFFICE suite, which comes to me as no surprise really 'cause my PC is running MICROSOFT WINDOWS 2000; hmmm..... did they embed programm code directly into the OS? Be your own judge no conspiracy theories from me!

Read further down the board, Cyarbon. I've been "trashing" Macs for quite awhile, in more ways than one. The only reason I'ver backed off somewhat is because I realized that there was no way for the Mac advocates to do likewise in the PC forums. And I take at least partial credit for convincing one person (Mike) NOT to buy himself a new Macintosh. He didn't buy a PC either, but at least he didn't spend $1000+ on a new Mac.Hey, if you hate Windows 2000 so much, how 'bout sending me a copy ? I'll send you an old Mac that is pretty beat up (literally).

Man, you are one uninformed person Lipelite. If you had even half a brain, no wait, 1 tenth of a brain, you'd know how superior Macs are to PC's. First off, Mac's don't crash more often than any other OS, the least maybe but not the most. Perhaps you would recall win2k beta had around 63,000 bugs on initial release. When did you hear of that from MacOS? Never, and it won't ever happen. Let me clear things up though. We can't completely blame microsoft. After all Lispelite, like you say on your web site, PC's have ton's of configurations. That's why so many of them crash, or if they don't it's because they have specific drivers for every piece of hardware on the system. And alot of the hardware you find on PC's is garbage, again a reason why PC's crash so much. You talk about IBM and Gateway like they're Gods. Have you no concept of reality? The reason they sell computers for so cheap is exactly that, the computers are cheap! No name sound cards, no name video cards, cheap hard drives, cheap speakers, no name NIC's. Try adding name-brand stuff (i.e: quality stuff) and see if your 400$ PIII is still 400$. I doubt it very, very much. One more thing to clear up. I'm a PC user. Been using PC's all my life. Studied the processors in PC's. Designed electronic circuits for PC's. Programmed for PC's. I know PC's pretty well. So let me tell you, from all my experience with PC's, Mac's are superior by a long shot. In conclusion, if you really want people to believe that Mac's are inferior, try putting some true and accurate facts on your site. Like how PC's are about 1000 times more virus-prone, how windows is the infamous crashing-OS, not MacOS. How Mac's fend better in the long run. In other words, get your facts straight or keep your mouth shut!

you can run X on a PC, install a unix. Mac is like driving a big powerful truck with the clutch half in, it has potential but you don't use the power, and they are painted cutely. And you can only use expensive fuel from a handful of gas stations. PCs are like Cars and light trucks, good for most general use driving. UNIX is a big diesel truck with so much power and speed and once you get it going there is no stoping it, it will run forever (I've seen reported uptimes of 2 years). And you can run it almost anywhere, PC, Mac and specilized Unix arcitecture. Look at macs they come with crappy speakers, and iMac monitors suck. $25 sound cards powered by crystal audio are acceptible for most cases, $20 NICS are just as good as $70 ones. If you price around you can figure out that you don't need to have the best soundcard just to play MP3s and you can get what you need instead of the most expensive model. a note on processor speeds: 350 works fine on PC for me, no home user needs more then that and the processor is usally idle 95% of the time, just small peaks ever use that power. I've seen macs crash for absolutly no reason, and with no warning. More people buy PC over mac, people say Bill gates has a manopoly, you do have a choise: PC, Mac, or alternate UNIX like Sun, or even a free UNIX on their PC like FreeBSD or Linux. People choose him so all the power to him. Can someone please explain why Macs are better for graphics? They both have the same software avalible for them.

MAC OR PC, I HAVE BOTH AT HOME AND WORK FOR EASE OF USE FOR A NEW COMPUTER USER I SAY MAC ALL THE WAY. I SUPPORT MACS AND WINDOWS BASED COMPUTERS AND MACS ARE MUCH EASIER TO FIX IF A MAJOR ERROR WITH THE SYSTEM OCCURS, YOU BOOT FROM A CD, HOW IS THIS DONE ON A WINDOWS COMPUTER? OR ONCE THE SYSTEM DOES NOT BOOT IS THAT DATA LOST. THANKS FOR COMMING.