Tja, ik ken ook zeer weinig van MAC PC's, maar er wordt toch altijd gezegd dat een MAC alles kan wat een Windows kan, maar niet andersom ...
Al denk ik dat het wel problemen zal geven met drivers en zo, maar zoals ik al zei heb ik er geen ervaring mee.
Hieronder is nog een stukje wat ik erover gelezen heb. Toch altijd oppassen vind ik...
Mac vs. PC, 2003 Edition: Are Apple's G5 Benchmark Results False?
During his keynote address at the Worldwide Developers Conference
(WWDC) 2003 in San Francisco earlier this week, Apple Computer CEO
Steve Jobs told the excitable audience that the company's new PowerMac
G5 systems--due in August--would not just match but surpass the
performance of similarly equipped high-end Pentium 4 and XEON-based
PCs from companies such as Dell. "We are delivering today the world's
fastest personal computer," Jobs said of the G5 during the keynote,
although the systems won't ship for 2 months. Apple has made similar
performance claims over the years, but it has always relied on rather
spurious evidence, such as hand-picked benchmarks that highlight
specific strengths of the PowerPC platform. However, this time, Jobs
touted a number of so-called industry standard benchmarks from
VeriTest that reputedly back up Apple's claims. Has the Macintosh
really surpassed the PC, after years of lagging behind?
Sadly, Apple's claims are as questionable as ever, but what's
astonishing is how quickly the ****h has come out. Almost immediately
after the keynote, while Mac fanatics worldwide continued chortling
over their perceived victory, people around the Web began looking into
the benchmarks Apple used to prove the G5's prowess. Predictably,
things aren't as simple as Apple's followers would like to believe.
More alarming, even dual-processor G5 machines still don't match the
processing power of a single-processor Pentium 4 system, contrary to
what Apple announced Monday.
Here's why: In a bit of classic benchmark trickery, Apple's systems
were highly tuned in nonstandard ways to achieve the best scores on
specific benchmarks. Meanwhile, the PCs used to compete against the G5
were saddled with generic tools. Furthermore, advanced Pentium 4
features on the test machines such as hyperthreading were turned off,
artificially lowering those systems' scores. What's most interesting
is that VeriTest has results for various Pentium 4 systems in which
these features are enabled. Guess which system, Mac or PC, comes out
ahead when those results are compared?
"Apple's test results are invalidated by severely lopsided testing
conditions," InfoWorld's Tom Yager writes in his Web log. "Among them,
Apple used a prototype G5 running its special GNU compiler and an
unreleased version of OS X. The Dells used shipping hardware, vanilla
GNU compilers, and Red Hat 9. None of this would be a problem if Apple
and VeriTest didn't claim the tests were objective. An
apples-to-apples test, so to speak, would require that Dell, like
Apple, be allowed to tune its systems and software for best-case
performance. Dell's published results on the SPEC site--regarded as
the definitive repository for SPEC results--are best-case. They're far
better than the results cited by VeriTest in the Apple report."
Sure enough, in each of the benchmarks in which Apple claims
victory over the Pentium 4- or Xeon-based systems, various Pentium 4,
Xeon, and even AMD Athlon XP systems actually beat the G5 routinely
when the tested systems have been properly configured and don't have
certain features disabled.
What's most bizarre about all this is that Apple makes good
products. Let's be clear on this point: Mac OS X is excellent, and the
Panther release, although not overly exciting, looks solid. The
company's hardware is of tremendous quality (I own two Macs and an
iPod), with the PowerMac G5 clearly continuing this trend. And
choosing a Mac over a PC in certain situations makes perfect sense.
But Apple has been exceeding the bounds of credibility with its
performance claims for years now, and this latest example is by far
the boldest. This situation, ultimately, is an embarrassment for both
Apple and its customers. Perhaps the company needs to rethink its
claim that the PowerMac G5 is the "world's fastest computer." Quite
clearly, that isn't the case.
