Mac Vs PC - Laptop

[Jefe]

The reason why Toyota depreciates slower than Ford, is because of its superior engineering. Same applies for Benz, BMW, etc. their engineering >>>>>>>>> compared to US ones.

Brand matters, and thus affects the prices. If oblivious artsy-macfags want to spend more for the name, so be it.

[Korietsu]

He's uh, still sort of right though. These new Macs come with the same hardware that's used in PCs. I see no reason why they'd depreciate slower, but I don't think it matters that much anyway. It boils down to being a personal preference choice. Do you like Macs? Great, go and buy one.

And please, it's been good so far keeping the flaming to a minimum in a topic that rarely does so. Let's keep it that way.

Architecture design is different. A mac can do the same that a PC can, with less. That's held true for a long time. I'll find a nice link and let you guys go play with a basic program. A similarly built Win based PC in my class, using nearly the same hardware as my Mac ran a 2kb program ran 10 seconds longer than my mac did.

[Mayareira]

What matters is obviously the hardware, not the os.

Uh, what? Main selling point of a Macintosh is its OS and available software for it. And please don't pull a Hackintosh here, anyone who is seriously interested in OS X will go with a Mac. If you are spending hours/day on a computer you invest in what you like, what's good for you and what you enjoy to use. This applies for everything.

I also don't understad all this "mac-fag" crap. If I wanted something "stylish", I'd go with a fucking Sony Vaio instead of an 15 inch bulky MBP. Apart of its awesomesauce backlit keyboard MacBooks aren't really "stylish" at all if you ask me.

[Korietsu]

Just as an example, running this in basic

10 rem -prime number sieve finds primes up to N,N< 2E+7
15 rem -max length of array f(*) must be (N/2)+3
20 dim f(10000003)
30 Input "N = "; N
35 t = timer : c=1
40 s = (N-3)/2
50 for i = 0 to s : f(i) = 1 : next i
60 for i = 0 to s
70   if f(i) = 0 then goto 110
80   p = i+i+3
85REM   print p
90   for k = i+p to s step p : f(k) = 0 : next k
100   c = c+1
110 next i
120 print c;" primes found in ";
130 t = timer-t
140 print t;" seconds"
150 print "last prime found ="; p
160 goto 30

Nets my macbook a 3.3 second run time at one million numbers sifted if I recall correctly, although it might have been the 10 million run if it was possible. On the comparable windows machine, it took 13-17 seconds depending on the OS.

[mootsfox]

Even though Macs use shittier screens, just get a mac so you fit in with your designer friends, and more importantly so you will be able to use whatever programs the school has, at home.

[mootsfox]

Architecture design is different. A mac can do the same that a PC can, with less. That's held true for a long time. I'll find a nice link and let you guys go play with a basic program. A similarly built Win based PC in my class, using nearly the same hardware as my Mac ran a 2kb program ran 10 seconds longer than my mac did.

Nah, the Macs use Intel chips now. They used to have PowerPC chips, but switched over in the interest of Cost and the GHz race.

[Korietsu]

Nah, the Macs use Intel chips now. They used to have PowerPC chips, but switched over in the interest of Cost and the GHz race.

The internal architecture with the software and the hardware and how well it's tuned is the difference. Just because it uses the intel chip, doesn't mean that it doesn't use it differently, or more efficiently.