Postby termyt » Fri Nov 26, 2004 7:40 am
MACs are more expensive, but there are two provisos here to point out.
1) MAC hardware is built better. Enough to make a difference through the life of your PC? That's debatable, but the quality is better.
2) Buy the time you add all of the hardware, memory, video stuff, etc to a basic PC, it is not that much cheaper than a MAC, but could be enough to make a difference in a tight budget.
All that said, MAC as are better. They "appear" slower because of they way they are measured, but even though the processor is rated slower, the MAC processor is better, more efficient, and thus faster than it's intel counterpart.