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"My Desktop. 2005."

[URL]http://homepage.mac.com/doctorperry/Sceen.png[/URL]

I just got a Mac, and made a new wallpaper last night.
To be honest, i think the whole mac desktop looks alot better then Windows.

What do you think?

Chad Niga wrote:
> If you had a mac with halo, you would see how amazing it runs.
> There is absolutly no slow down even running on battery.

I'm not talking about lack of slowdown.
I didn't get any slowdown in Halo with an Athlon XP2000+ and a Radeon 8500, so I would be very worried if there was slowdown on a G5 with a Radeon 9600XT.

> It's perfectly smooth, and you cant really go around saying its
> rubbish when you havent even used it.

I'm not saying it's rubbish, I'm saying that it's comparitively rubbish.
Your statement that Macs can do everything that PCs can but faster = not true.

The G5 CPU is certainly faster than PC-platform CPUs, but the highest graphics card available, a 9600XT, is a low-to-midrange card on the PC.

It has 128-bit memory at 500-600MHz (can't remember exactly) and only 4 pixel pipelines. That's slower than my 9700 Pro, and the 9700 Pro is technology that's over 2 years old.
Something like the Radeon X800 has 16 pixel pipelines and 256-bit memory running at around 1GHz, likewise with the GeForce 6800GT.

Therefore, it is an mpossibility that a Mac can output the same framerates as a high-end PC, since it simply doesn't have the technology to do so.


If you were to measure the framerate a top-end G5 was outputting on Half Life 2, and the framerate produced by a top-end PC, the PC would win by a substantial margin.

If you had a mac with halo, you would see how amazing it runs.
There is absolutly no slow down even running on battery.

It's perfectly smooth, and you cant really go around saying its rubbish when you havent even used it.

Chad Niga wrote:
> Making your desktop look like that would only make your PC slow down.

Possibly, possibly not.
I know someone who runs their PC with a Mac-style desktop and I've never noticed it to be any slower than using the standard GUI.

> And it wouldnt look any way near as clear as on a mac.

Er, why not?
If you're using the same screen resolution and the images are the same resolution, I don't see why it would make any difference at all...

Chad Niga wrote:
> Buy a console you fcuking fax machine.

but consoles don't have the games I want...

> If you had a mac or even knew what you were talking about, then maybe
> i would listen.

Why do I need a Mac to know that even the top-range Macs have rubbish graphics cards for gameplaying? All I have to do is look at the spec to see that.

I agree that Macs are superior for many things, but to say they can do everything a PC can do but faster is ridiculous. No Mac on the market can offer anywhere near the performance in games that PCs can.

I'd like you to point out where I "don't know what I'm talking about", because everything I've said is solid fact.

Making your desktop look like that would only make your PC slow down. And it wouldnt look any way near as clear as on a mac.

And yes, i do fancy steve vai.

Chad Niga wrote:
> [URL]http://homepage.mac.com/doctorperry/Sceen.png[/URL]
>
> I just got a Mac, and made a new wallpaper last night.
> To be honest, i think the whole mac desktop looks alot better then
> Windows.
>
> What do you think?

I think that how your desktop looks is up to you, and it doesn't matter what operating system you're on. I could easily make my Windows desktop look like that if I wanted.

I also think that you must fancy Steve Vai.

Just checked and the top spec G5 is $3000.
With a 4-pipeline GPU, the performance won't even be close to what you can achieve with a PC, for less.

And how much exactly will one of those cost me, eh?

Also,

"High-speed AGP 8X Pro Graphics Bus

The Power Mac G5 comes with the ATI Radeon 9600 XT or NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra graphics card"

so you're saying that this G5, that's going to cost me an arm and a leg, will offer the same performance as an FX55 w/2GB RAM and dual GeForce 6800 GTs in SLI, with a Radeon 9600XT as the fastest graphics card possible?

My. Ass.
The fact that the games will be running through an emulator isn't going to help things.

And don't say I went overboard with the hardware, because you're the one who said "top spec".

Macs are great for heavy media editing and things like that, but for games, PCs are the way to go.

Sticking VP7 on a top spec g5, and hey presto.
Any windows game you like.

Chad Niga wrote:
> It does everything windows can, but faster.

Tell me about all the games you play.