Posted: 15 March 2006 at 9:50am | IP Logged

Well, now that the next generation of Macs are based on Intel chips, emulating windows and running windows applications will be more stable and much faster, so I don't think that this will be true for much longer. Also porting applications will become a smaller task, and with the market growing will become more cost effective.

Dave

Posted: 15 March 2006 at 1:54pm | IP Logged

Now there is an admission Intel and running a windows emulator makes a mac more stable and run faster  

Posted: 15 March 2006 at 2:03pm | IP Logged

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Posted: 15 March 2006 at 5:57pm | IP Logged

quantise wrote: Hey, no problem, I do all three of the things you mentioned on my macs and get good work done! Personally, I kinda think that if you want to play games you're better of with a playstation or Xbox tho! I wouldn't exactly say nothing runs on a mac! it's all a matter of preference. I use PC's as well. I just prefer, on balance, macs. Warm regards, John

I own an Xbox, don't get me wrong, they're good, but games on the PC are so much better in so many different ways. The graphics on the Xbox 1 are 64Mb, my PC's graphics card is 128Mb. My games run faster on my PC and the graphics are better!

The Xbox's Kernel & OS are stripped down versions of Windows 2000 (even the games console runs a bit of computer wizardry called windows).

Mac's are fantastic for film editing, used a mac at school for this purpose last year. I use good ol' Cubase for my music on glorious windows. And for graphics, Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8, Flash 8 & Fireworks.  

Posted: 16 March 2006 at 11:00am | IP Logged

Just in case that wasn't a deliberate misunderstanding. What I meant was, emulating windows on a mac that is based on an Intel chip will be better than emulating windows on a mac that is based on a power PC chip.

Dave

Posted: 16 March 2006 at 1:19pm | IP Logged

"Buffed Out"

You mac folk are really persistent

Get a real computer dump that MAC

Posted: 16 March 2006 at 2:20pm | IP Logged

Me Wind Up......

Hey Mac's are mighty fine

they come into their own in bad weather