Originally Posted by leslie Yes, 32bit only addresses (about) 3.2 gigs of ram. However, there are 3 gig kits out there (1.5 per channel), and 4 gigs is dirt cheap so who cares if you waste a little. More than that though, 64bit drivers are all over now. Win7 is free, so is Linux.
The statement was actually a joke though, hence the wink at the end.
I usually like the articles posted on this site, but this one seriously pisses me off... It only corroborates the stupidness of the usual Mac vs. PC debate, from a PC people's perspective.
The iMac is a perfect machine for what it's been designed for. All Macintosh applications, even the world's most advanced video editing tool Final Cut Pro, the photography application Aperture (which is the professional equivalent of iPhoto, and not Photoshop as the article says, those are just completely different and actually complementary applications) run smoothly and perfectly on that machine. Now trying to compare the gaming experience on a Mac and on a custom PC that was built for performance, and eventually saying that the Mac is beaten is simply moronic. Even more moronic : qualifying Apple's OS and applications as "made for newbies". I'd rather say it's a fully featured UNIX with a user-friendly and actually pleasing GUI, and it can do much much more than Vista when it comes to what experts do with computers. Yet, a 4-year-old can use it. Take your "Mac-Killer" out of the box (well... the boxes) and ask a 4-year-old to install the drivers and do all the time-consuming bullshit that you must do before actually being able to do anything with it.
So yeah, you can run games on the PC. You can do that on an Xbox 360 and on a PS3, for less than 1/4 the price, and you don't have to change your hardware every three months to get high-end graphics...
That is indeed an endless debate, which can only decently take place in forums and comments, not in supposedly serious articles.
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Replylet me correct you on one thing: Win 7 RC1 is free, the actual RTM client is not.
The iMac is a perfect machine for what it's been designed for. All Macintosh applications, even the world's most advanced video editing tool Final Cut Pro, the photography application Aperture (which is the professional equivalent of iPhoto, and not Photoshop as the article says, those are just completely different and actually complementary applications) run smoothly and perfectly on that machine. Now trying to compare the gaming experience on a Mac and on a custom PC that was built for performance, and eventually saying that the Mac is beaten is simply moronic. Even more moronic : qualifying Apple's OS and applications as "made for newbies". I'd rather say it's a fully featured UNIX with a user-friendly and actually pleasing GUI, and it can do much much more than Vista when it comes to what experts do with computers. Yet, a 4-year-old can use it. Take your "Mac-Killer" out of the box (well... the boxes) and ask a 4-year-old to install the drivers and do all the time-consuming bullshit that you must do before actually being able to do anything with it.
So yeah, you can run games on the PC. You can do that on an Xbox 360 and on a PS3, for less than 1/4 the price, and you don't have to change your hardware every three months to get high-end graphics...
That is indeed an endless debate, which can only decently take place in forums and comments, not in supposedly serious articles.
I read this thread title and now I can't stop thinking about an axe.
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