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The Layonara Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: Zen on February 10, 2006, 10:31:45 AM

Title: Mac mini Vrs .....
Post by: Zen on February 10, 2006, 10:31:45 AM: just need some opionins from those in the know

Mac mini = Power PC G4

1- AMD Operon

2- AMD Aflon X2 3800+

3- P4

thanks for the help.

By the way sites I'm looking at are: (outpost.com) (tigerdirect.com) (Mwave.com) (apple.com) (compusa.com)

again Mahalo :)
Title: Re: Mac mini Vrs .....
Post by: miltonyorkcastle on February 13, 2006, 10:02:50 AM: eerr.... I know computer geeks that would argue over which one is better for hours, but me? as long as they work, they're all good. *shrugs*

So I say, find the cheapest, and go one step up from that. =P
Title: Re: Mac mini Vrs .....
Post by: Deacon on February 13, 2006, 11:26:37 AM: My opinion, Mac's make really good Laptops. I would go with one of those. But if you were to get one of the Windows laptops I would go with the AMD's because they have always run faster, and cooler than P4's. Just personal opinion on the Mac though.
Title: RE: Mac mini Vrs .....
Post by: Ar7 on February 13, 2006, 11:31:57 AM: If you're getting a computer for entertaiment purposes only, then don't buy a MAC. But if you're planning on doing work on it and you're familiar with the system, then go with a mac. Mac is very stable and you need to be a genius to mess it up and crash the system, so it is good when you know that your work files won't go poof for no actual reason.
Title: Re: Mac mini Vrs .....
Post by: Talan Va'lash on February 13, 2006, 01:06:53 PM: Macs laptops are acctually fairly competatively priced featurewise with Windows laptops, but lose a bit of ground pricewise with desktops. The benchmarks on the new intel dual processor macs look awesome and if I found a couple thousand dollars on the ground I would totally buy one heh.

The AMD processors have better gaming benchmarks than the pentiums, and the Athlon you've listed is rated higher than the opteron or whatever it is.

So, if you want a mac, go with one of the new intel based ones, they look screamin'. And if you want a PC I'd reccomend the Athlon.

-TV
Title: Re: Mac mini Vrs .....
Post by: Deacon on February 13, 2006, 02:34:52 PM: Pentiums in a Macintosh? What is the world coming to?
Title: Re: Mac mini Vrs .....
Post by: Talan Va'lash on February 13, 2006, 02:58:57 PM: Quote
Deacon - 2/13/2006 3:34 PM

Pentiums in a Macintosh? What is the world coming to?

heh, *someones* been out of the loop ;)

And they're not pentiums. Intel makes multiple lines of processors.

-TV
Title: Re: Mac mini Vrs .....
Post by: Deacon on February 13, 2006, 03:38:59 PM: Oh. Well. Yeah.

Anyways, hopefully Texas Tech's Architecture Department will allow me to get a Macintosh, because I will DEFINITELY be making a push to get the Intel Powered Macintosh.