Due to computer bloat, for certain tasks a Mac Plus is actually faster than a dual core Athlon.
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In this case I don't think it's really a mac vs. pc thing, but an old computer vs. new computer thing. Linux is good, and it's starting to get out of the purely hobbyist realm, but mac is a better value than a windows pc.
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Just get Crossover for Intel Macs. You will be able to run your Windows games, and you will have the best of both worlds.
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This whole conversation is way beyond me. I can't figure out why I need to collect intel on Big Macs by using the Politcally Correct drive through windows. I do like Linux. He's my favorite character from Peanuts right behind Snoopy.
A processor being duel-core doesn't make it faster, it just makes it so it can handle two threads at the same time. So speed wise I am not suprised at all.
A processor being duel-core doesn't make it faster, it just makes it so it can handle two threads at the same time. So speed wise I am not suprised at all.
There's sewing involved too? How many thread count is that processor?
A thread is a technical term for a currently running list of programs.
A processor can only do one thing at a time, it's the operating system that is constantly juggling all of the programs being run. With more than one processing core you can have two current threads instead of one.
Yeah, I remember the summer after I got a C-64 for Christmas. I would spend days copying code out of a magazine in order to animate sprites for some inane game, only to spend double the time debugging to find out why it didn't work.
Had a Trash-80 Coco for a while, then a first-gen IBM with an amber monitor, 64K, dual 5 1/4 floppies (one for the OS and one for data), and then it was like a match made in heaven when I met my first Mac in college.
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