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gump420:
As far as multitasking goes, the version of Winblows that can hold a candle to Mac OS X's multitasking doesn't exist. Oh, and networking? Theres another area where Mac OS X (and former Mac OSes to boot) blow Windoze out of the water.

Online gaming? Well, maybe not Evercrack, but Mac users have been playing games online for years - much longer than PC users have (Bolo, anybody?). In any case, online games do still exist for Mac OS, with new ones coming, too (World of Warcraft, for instance, or whatever it's called).

By the way, try putting more than 512MB of ram in a computer running any non-WinNT operating system from M$ . . . heh, heh . . .

The bottom line here is that there isn't anything you can do on a Wintel machine that you can't do on a Macintosh. Often times you won't be using the same apps, but you will be getting the same functionality (minus M$'s bloatware, to boot).

saquarrier:
I use Linux on i386 (AMD Duron).  I prefer linux to mac os for a few reasons, mostly overhead, and the ability to monkey arround in it.  I do agree that the mac platform is far suppirior to the i386 one, but price and the fact that I like to build my own computers have kept me from it.  In other words I don't have a problem with macs though I don't use them.  Wouldn't it be awesome if the mac platform was opened up like the pc, imagin awesome hardware at reasonable prices that you could put together yourself.

gump420:
saquarrier - Well, when I get an iBook at the beginning of next semester I'm looking forward to seeing how well that baby performs with just Darwin installed on it. I'm planning on spending the first week or so toying around with just the Darwin layer so I know if I want to use the full Mac OS X or just the open-source part. I'll probably end up dual-booting OS X (+ OS 9) and Darwin, since I'm not sure if it's possible to access the prompt directly under a Mac OS X installation (as in, access it without having the GUI loaded into memory at all).

Anyway, conflicting rumors tell of a soon-to-be-released G5 on the one hand and the cancellation of the PPC line altogether on the other (although the latter hasn't been brought up as recently). It would certainly be technically feasible to run Mac OS X (minus "Classic") on IA32, but how likely that is to come to pass is certainly an open question.

BTW, my old system was the same as yours (Linux on an AMD Duron) until my Socket-A board burned out and I had to revert to borrow an older machine of my brother's that has Winblows '98 on it; I've been too lazy to get this board up and running with Linux due to some driver problems, although I haven't yet tried the 2.4 kernel.

bcortens:
Apple is going to make an official announcment on the G5 on jannuary the 7th

CommonSense:

quote:Originally posted by Ben:
Apple is going to make an official announcment on the G5 on jannuary the 7th
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Actually, that's not such a safe bet.  It MAY happen at MacWorld San Francisco next month, but there's just as much reason to believe they'll just boost the G4s up even more, and buy themselves another six months for MacWorld New York in July (or maybe some event in the middle.

G5s would definitely be nice, but I get the feeling they're not quite done yet milking the G4.

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